Subsection 8: Leave for employees standing for or elected to parliamentary or local office.

The employer shall allow an employee who is a candidate for election to the National Assembly or the Senate the time necessary to take part in the election campaign, up to a limit of twenty working days. The same right is granted, at the employee’s request, up to a maximum of ten working days to an employee who is a candidate for : 1° to the European Parliament ; 2°…

The employee may, at his convenience, benefit from the provisions of article L. 3142-79, provided that each absence is for at least half a full day. He shall notify his employer at least twenty-four hours before the start of each absence.

At the employee’s request, the period of absence is deducted from the period of paid annual leave up to the limit of the entitlement acquired in this respect on the date of the first ballot. If they are not deducted from annual paid leave, absences are not remunerated. In such cases, they may be recovered in agreement with the employer.

The duration of absences is treated as a period of actual work for the purposes of determining holiday entitlements and seniority rights under the law and collective bargaining agreements.

The employment contract of an employee who is a member of the National Assembly or the Senate is, at his request, suspended until the expiry of his term of office, if he can prove that he has been with the employer for at least one year on the date he takes up his post.

On expiry of their term of office, employees shall return to their previous job, or to a similar job with equivalent remuneration, within two months of the date on which they notified their employer of their intention to return to this job. He shall benefit from all the advantages acquired by employees in his category during his term of office. He/she shall benefit, as necessary, from professional readaptation in the…

The provisions of article L. 3142-84 do not apply when the term of office has been renewed, unless the duration of the suspension provided for in article L. 3142-83 was, for whatever reason, less than five years. These provisions do not apply either when the employee member of the National Assembly or the Senate is elected in the other of these two assemblies. Upon expiry of the renewed term(s) of…

A decree will determine the conditions under which employees’ rights, particularly in terms of provident and pension schemes, will be maintained during their term of office.

The provisions of this sub-section are applicable to civil servants and non-tenured employees of the State, local authorities and their public establishments as well as to employees of public companies, unless they benefit from more favourable provisions.

Mayors and deputy mayors, the chairmen and vice-chairmen of departmental councils and the chairmen and vice-chairmen of regional councils benefit from the provisions of articles L. 3142-83 to L. 3142-87 under the conditions set out in articles L. 2123-9, L. 3123-7 and L. 4135-7 respectively of the General Local Authorities Code.