Section 1: Purpose and opening conditions.

The purpose of retraining or promotion by alternation is to enable the employee to change trade or profession, or to benefit from social or professional promotion by means of training or by means of actions enabling the acquired experience mentioned in article L. 6313-5 to be validated. It concerns employees on open-ended contracts, employees, whether professional sportsmen and women or trainers, on fixed-term contracts concluded in application of article L….

Work-linked retraining or promotion concerns employees whose qualifications are less than or equal to a level determined by decree.

A collective industry agreement defines the list of professional qualifications eligible for retraining or promotion through work-linked training. The extension of this agreement is subject to compliance with the criteria of major changes in activity and the risk of skills becoming obsolete. Work-linked retraining or promotion may enable the acquisition of the knowledge and skills base mentioned in articles L. 6121-2, L. 6324-1 and L. 6323-6.

Where retraining or promotion through work-linked training includes training courses, these combine general, vocational and technological education provided by public or private training bodies or, where the company has a training department, by the company, and the acquisition of know-how through the exercise in the company of one or more professional activities related to the qualifications sought.

The training initiatives mentioned in article L. 6324-2 are financed in accordance with the terms and conditions set out in 5° of I of article L. 6332-14. The extended branch agreement referred to in article L. 6324-3 provides that the remuneration of employees undergoing retraining or promotion through work-linked training may be paid by the skills operator in accordance with the terms and conditions set out in 5° of II…

The employee’s employment contract will be the subject of an amendment specifying the duration and purpose of the work-linked retraining or promotion. The amendment to the contract is filed in accordance with the procedures set out in article L. 6325-5.