What is a Work Placement Period (WSIP)?

Verified 16 January 2025 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

Do you want to discover a trade or a sector of activity? The work placement period (PMSMP) allows you to test your orientation choices. It is possible to apply for a PMSMP regardless of whether you are active or not. We are taking stock of the regulations to know.

In operation

You can benefit from a PMSMP if you are active and engaged in a process of integration or reintegration into the labor market.

It is in particular if you are an employee:

FYI  

You can also benefit from a PMSMP if you are handicapped worker accommodated in establishments and work-related support services or employee of adapted companies.

PMSMPs aim to:

  • Discover a trade or a sector of activity
  • Confirm Business Project
  • Initiate a recruitment process.

Structures that may prescribe PMSMP are:

  • France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)
  • Local mission, if you are under 26 years old
  • Employment Cap, if you have a disability
  • Departmental Council
  • Structures for integration through economic activity (SIAE): integration companies (EI), intermediate associations (IA), workshops, integration projects (ACI).

FYI  

A social or professional integration worker may also prescribe PMSMPs for the public he employs or accompanies. To do so, it must have received a delegation from France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi), local missions or Cap Emploi.

You can search for welcoming companies according to the job and the intended location:

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FYI  

Temporary work companies for integration (ETTI) cannot prescribe PMSMP.

You should approach the body responsible for your support (e.g. France Travail) which may prescribe a PMSMP.

The conditions for implementing the PMSMPs are adaptable to each beneficiary.

The prescriber is considering the advisability. It defines the objectives according to your needs, possibilities and capacities as well as those of the hosting structure.

Reminder

You can search for welcoming companies according to the job and the intended location:

Seek a welcoming company for professional immersion

The convention shall state in particular the following information:

  • Name and address of the prescribing body
  • Beneficiary's surname, first name and date of birth
  • Employer contact information
  • Name of the reception and support structure
  • Start and end dates of the scenario period(s)
  • Number of hours present and place of execution
  • Objectives set and arrangements for assessing their achievement
  • Description of the tasks entrusted to you to develop the skills sought
  • Hours of presence in the reception structure.

The PMSMP is the subject of an agreement between the following parties:

  • You
  • Reception structure
  • Prescriber
  • Supporting structure (if different from prescriber) 
  • Employer.

Initial Duration

The duration of each PMSMP is up to 1 month (from date to date).

Your presence in the reception structure can be continuous or discontinuous.

You can enter into up to 2 agreements with the same employer.

For this to happen, these conventions must:

  • Have different objects or objectives
  • Have a total duration maximum of 60 days within this 12-month period (one year).

FYI  

The cumulative duration of all these PMSMPs performed by an employee in single insertion contract or accompanied by anintegration through economic activity must be equal to the maximum of 25% the total duration of the contract.

Renewal

Where the objective(s) of the PMSMP have not been achieved, the Convention may be renewed once.

The purpose and objectives of this renewal are the same as those initially set. It has a maximum duration of1 month.

Your status is maintained.

You keep your remuneration. It is paid by your original employer if the period is part of the employment contract you have with him.

FYI  

The reception can pay you a fee, but it is not obligatory.

You follow the rules applicable to other employees of the structure (e.g. duration of presence, rest, night presence).

You will find your workstation after this PMSMP.

Warning  

If you request a suspension of your employment contract during the PMSMP, your remuneration will also be suspended.

You're back to your original workstation.

No activity

You can benefit from a PMSMP if you are in any of the following :

  • Job-seeker, registered or unregistered with France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)
  • Young people in need of integration followed by local missions
  • Job seeker recognized as a disabled worker, accompanied by France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi) or a Employment Cap
  • Beneficiary of the RSA, for the actions implemented under your contract of engagement.

PMSMPs aim to:

  • Discover a trade or a sector of activity
  • Confirm Business Project
  • Initiate a recruitment process.

Structures that may prescribe PMSMP are:

  • France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)
  • Local mission if you are under 26 years old
  • Employment Cap if you have a disability
  • Departmental Council
  • Structures for integration through economic activity (SIAE): integration companies (EI), intermediate associations (IA), workshops, integration projects (ACI).

FYI  

A social or professional integration worker may also prescribe PMSMPs for the public he employs or accompanies. To do so, it must have received a delegation from France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi), local missions or Cap Emploi.

You can search for welcoming companies according to the job and the intended location:

Seek a welcoming company for professional immersion

FYI  

Temporary work companies for integration (ETTI) cannot prescribe PMSMP.

You should approach the body responsible for your support (e.g. France Travail) which may prescribe a PMSMP.

The conditions for implementing the PMSMPs are adaptable to each beneficiary.

The prescriber is considering the advisability. It defines the objectives according to your needs, possibilities and capacities as well as those of the hosting structure.

Reminder

You can search for welcoming companies according to the job and the intended location:

Seek a welcoming company for professional immersion

The convention shall state in particular :

  • Name and address of the prescribing body
  • Beneficiary's surname, first name and date of birth
  • Name of the reception and support structure
  • Start and end dates of the scenario period(s)
  • Number of hours present and place of execution
  • Objectives set and arrangements for assessing their achievement
  • Description of the tasks entrusted to you to develop the skills sought
  • Hours of presence in the reception structure.

The PMSMP is the subject of an agreement between the following parties:

  • You
  • Reception structure
  • Prescriber
  • Supporting structure (if different from prescriber).

Initial Duration

The duration of each PMSMP is up to 1 month (from date to date).

Your presence in the reception structure can be continuous or discontinuous.

You can enter into up to 2 agreements with the same employer.

For this to happen, these conventions must:

  • Have different objects or objectives
  • Have a total duration maximum of 60 days within this 12-month period (one year).

Renewal

Where the objective(s) of the PMSMP have not been achieved, the Convention may be renewed once.

The purpose and objectives of this renewal are the same as those initially set. It has a maximum duration of1 month.

You keep your compensation plan.

Thus, if you are a job seeker compensated by France Travail, you keep your unemployment insurance benefits. If you are the holder of RSARSA : Income from active solidarity, you continue to receive the allowance.

Warning  

You are not the employee of the host organization and you're not paid by her.

However, this reception structure can pay you a fee, but it is not obligatory.

You follow the rules applicable to other employees of the structure (e.g. duration of presence, rest, night presence).

You will find your workstation after this PMSMP.

The PMSMP may lead to a work opportunity.

It may also allow for other actions (e.g. access to training, other professional experience).

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