Book II: Employment contracts

The rate of the retirement indemnity provided for in article L. 1237-9 is at least equal to : 1° Half a month’s salary after ten years’ seniority; 2° One month’s salary after fifteen years’ seniority; 3° One and a half months’ salary after twenty years’ seniority; 4° Two months’ salary after thirty years’ seniority.

The salary to be taken into consideration for the calculation of the retirement indemnity is, depending on the formula most advantageous to the person concerned, either one-twelfth of the remuneration for the last twelve months prior to retirement, or one-third of the last three months. In this case, any bonus or other element of annual or exceptional salary that may have been paid to the employee during this period is…

The period mentioned in the seventh paragraph of Article L. 1237-5 is set at three months before the employee’s birthday. The period mentioned in the eighth paragraph of the same article is set at one month from the date on which the employer questioned the employee.

The employer shall offer employees, before they retire, awareness training in the fight against cardiac arrest and in life-saving techniques as provided for in article L. 1237-9-1. The time spent on this training is considered as working time. The awareness campaign takes place during normal working hours. It enables employees, before they retire, to acquire the skills needed to: 1° Ensure their own safety, that of the victim or any…

The order referred to in 3° of article D. 1237-2-2 may provide for this awareness-raising to be adapted according to what employees have learnt, particularly in terms of the training and awareness they have received or their profession.