Subsection 3: Retraining for work

The purpose of the retraining provided for in Article L. 5213-5 is to enable an employee who has had to interrupt his or her professional activity as a result of illness or accident to return to work and, after a short period, to return to his or her previous job or, where appropriate, to move directly to another job.

The obligations to provide re-education for work and vocational re-education are met by : 1° The creation of a special re-education and retraining workshop; 2° The creation of special re-education and retraining posts in the company; 3° The simultaneous implementation of these two types of measures.

The occupational physician and the social and economic committee are consulted on the means best suited to the operating conditions and the nature of the professional activities aimed at re-training for work and professional re-education.

The methods of retraining and re-education adopted are communicated to the Labour Inspection supervisor, who may give the employer formal notice to adopt, within a specified period, one or other of the measures set out in article R. 5213-23 or to supplement the measures taken.

The disabled worker is assigned to the special workshops or posts provided for in article R. 5213-23 on the advice of the occupational physician.