An employee may, at his or her request and in agreement with the employer, give up anonymously and without consideration all or part of his or her unused rest days, whether or not they have been allocated to a time savings account, for the benefit of another employee of the company who is caring for a child under the age of twenty who is ill, disabled or the victim of a particularly serious accident making a sustained presence and constraining care indispensable. Annual leave may only be transferred if it exceeds twenty-four working days.
An employee may, under the same conditions, waive all or part of his or her untaken rest days for the benefit of another employee of the company whose child under the age of twenty-five has died. This option is also available to employees in the event of the death of a person under the age of twenty-five who is their actual and permanent dependant. This waiver may be made during the year following the date of death.
An employee who is the beneficiary of one or more days transferred in application of the first two paragraphs will continue to receive his or her remuneration during the period of absence. This period of absence is treated as a period of actual work for the purposes of determining the employee’s seniority rights. The employee retains the benefit of all the advantages he had acquired before the start of his period of absence.