Paragraph 1: Public policy

Employees are entitled to sabbatical leave during which their employment contract is suspended. The right to this leave is open to an employee who, on the date of departure on leave, can prove a minimum length of service in the company, cumulated, where applicable, over several non-consecutive periods, as well as six years of professional activity and who has not benefited for a minimum period, in the same company, from…

The employer may defer the start of the leave for up to six months from the date of the request, depending on the proportion of employees absent from the company for the leave or on the number of days of absence planned for the same leave. In companies with fewer than three hundred employees, this limit is increased to nine months. The employer may also defer this leave on the…

The employer informs the employee either of its agreement to the departure date chosen by the employee, or of the postponement of this date, or of its refusal. The employer’s agreement is deemed to have been given if no reply is received within thirty days of the request being made.

At the end of the leave, the employee returns to his previous job or a similar job with at least equivalent remuneration and benefits from the professional interview mentioned in I of article L. 6315-1. They may not invoke any right to be re-employed before the leave expires.