Section 3: Adoption leave

Adoption leave is granted to an employee who has been entrusted with a child by the departmental child welfare service, the French Adoption Agency or any other French body authorised for adoption.

The certificate justifying the arrival of a child, referred to in article L. 1225-39, is issued by the President of the Conseil départemental.

The employee notifies his employer, in accordance with article L. 1225-39, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or by delivery against receipt.

The adoption leave provided for in article L. 1225-37 begins no earlier than seven days before the child’s arrival at home and ends no later than eight months after that date. The periods of leave referred to in article L. 1225-37 may be split into two periods of at least twenty-five days each. Where the period of leave is divided between the two parents in application of article L. 1225-40,…