Book I: Measures to promote employment

The administrative authority shall request the employer to reimburse the Agence de service et de paiement, within a period of not less than thirty days, the sums paid in respect of the partial activity allowance in the event of overpayment, in particular where the conditions for their grant have not been complied with, or in the event of non-compliance by the company, without a legitimate reason, with the commitments mentioned…

The hours not worked as part of the partial activity are subject to the payment of the allowance within the limit of the legal working time or, where this is lower, the collective working time or the working time stipulated in the contract for the period in question. Beyond the legal working time or, when it is lower, the collective working time or the working time stipulated in the contract…

The hourly rate of the partial activity allowance paid to the employer corresponds, for each employee authorised to be placed on partial activity, to a percentage of the previous gross hourly remuneration calculated under the conditions of II of article L. 3141-24 and the first and third paragraphs of article R. 5122-18. A decree determines this percentage, as well as the minimum of this hourly rate and the maximum remuneration…

The hourly rate of the partial activity allowance for each employee concerned is equal to 36% of gross hourly pay as calculated in article R. 5122-12, limited to 4.5 times the hourly rate of the interprofessional minimum growth wage. This hourly rate may not be less than 8.21 euros. This minimum is not applicable when their remuneration is less than the interprofessional minimum growth wage, to employees on apprenticeship or…

The partial activity allowance is paid monthly by the Agence de services et de paiement on behalf of the State and the body managing the unemployment insurance scheme. The allowances mentioned in II of article L. 5122-1 are paid to employees on the normal pay date by the employer.

I.-For the application of 3° of II of article L. 5122-3, the methods for calculating the indemnity and the allowance are determined according to the following rules: 1° For employees whose working hours are set by a fixed-rate agreement in days over the year, the days or half-days are converted into hours as follows: a half-day not worked corresponds to 3 hours 30 minutes not worked; -a day not worked…

In the event of safeguard or receivership proceedings or compulsory liquidation, or of financial difficulties on the part of the employer, the Prefect, or by delegation the Regional Director of Companies, Competition, Consumption, Labour and Employment, may arrange for the payment of the partial activity allowance to be made by the Agency for Services and Payment: 1° Directly to the employees ; 2° Or, where applicable, to the court-appointed agent…

In the cases provided for in article R. 5122-16, a document containing the information provided for in 16° of article R. 3243-1 is given to the employee by the Agence de services et de paiement.

The employee placed on partial activity receives an hourly allowance, paid by his employer, corresponding to 60% of his gross remuneration used as a basis for the paid holiday allowance as provided for in II of article L. 3141-24 , reduced to an hourly amount based on the legal working time applicable in the company or, where this is lower, the collective working time or the time stipulated in the…

Subject to the provisions of article L. 5122-3, the number of hours which may justify the allocation of the partial activity allowance corresponds to the difference between the legal working time over the period in question or, where this is lower, the collective working time or the time stipulated in the contract, and the number of hours worked over the said period. For the application of this article, the legal…