Subsection 1: Public policy

An employee who wishes to provide full-time or part-time technological, vocational or higher education in initial or continuing training is entitled, subject to a seniority condition and under the conditions laid down in this section: 1° Either to leave ; 2° Or to a period of part-time work.

Article L. 3142-125 also applies to an employee who wishes to carry out research and innovation activities in a public research establishment, a local authority or a public or private company, unless the employer establishes that the exercise of this right by the employee directly compromises the company’s research, innovation and technological development policy.

In companies with three hundred or more employees, the employer may defer an employee’s leave or the start of the period of part-time work if exercising this right would result in the percentage of employees simultaneously absent on leave or part-time work being excessive in relation to the total workforce of the company.

In companies with fewer than three hundred employees, the employer may defer the employee’s leave or the start of the period of part-time work if exercising this right would result in the number of hours of leave requested being excessive in relation to the total number of hours worked in the year. However, the number of hours of leave to which an employee is entitled may, at the employee’s request,…