I.-When the request for funding is submitted by the employee referred to in article R. 6323-11-1, the regional inter-professional joint committee may decide to fund the project even when the associated training action begins after the end of the employment contract, provided that it begins no later than six months after the end of the employment contract.
II -For the duration of their professional transition project, the workers mentioned in I have the status of professional training trainees.
They will receive the remuneration set out in article L. 6323-17-5 and will continue to be covered by the social security, unemployment insurance and supplementary pension schemes from which they benefited when they held a fixed-term employment contract. The regional cross-industry joint committee pays the social security contributions relating to these guarantees to the schemes concerned.