Chapter III: Aid for redeployment and professional retraining.

In areas or with regard to occupations affected or threatened by a serious imbalance in employment, the administrative authority shall initiate redeployment, placement and vocational retraining measures. It ensures or coordinates the implementation of these measures. The employment centres provided for in Article L. 5313-1 shall participate in the implementation of the outplacement measures provided for in this chapter.

In the cases provided for in Article L. 5123-1, the following may be granted by means of agreements between the State and professional or inter-professional bodies, trade union organisations or companies: 1° Temporary degressive allowances for workers who cannot benefit from a training course and can only be temporarily employed in jobs involving a downgrading of their professional status ; 2° (Repealed) ; 3° Conversion allowances for employees who are…

The administrative authority may grant individual redeployment assistance to certain categories of unemployed workers returning to work part-time.

Allowances paid under this chapter may be assigned and seized under the same conditions and within the same limits as wages.

Employers’ contributions to the allowances provided for in this chapter are not subject to payroll tax or social security contributions.

When compensation resulting from national or regional professional or interprofessional agreements is intended to enable certain employees to benefit from an early retirement benefit, it must, in order to give entitlement to the exemptions and deductions provided for in article L. 5422-10, be implemented in compliance with conditions determined by decree by the Conseil d’Etat, linked to the age and characteristics, in particular the effects of exposure to certain occupational…

The administrative penalty provided for in article L. 5426-5 is applicable in the event of deliberately inaccurate or incomplete declarations made in order to qualify for the benefits provided for in this chapter and in the event of failure to declare a change in the situation justifying entitlement to these benefits, resulting in undue payments.

A decree shall determine the conditions under which the maisons de l’emploi (employment centres) shall participate in the implementation of the outplacement measures provided for in this chapter. The other provisions of this chapter are determined by decree in the Conseil d’Etat.