Unemployment: contract of employment of the jobseeker registered at France Travail

The job search requirement applies if you are considered a job seeker immediately available.

This is the case if you are in any of the following at the time of your registration for France Travail:

• You have no professional activity, no professional training and your personal situation allows you to work without delay
• You carry out (or have carried out in the month preceding your registration with France Travail) an occasional or reduced activity not exceeding 78 hours per month
• You receive training for a total duration not exceeding 40 hours or that allows you to work simultaneously (for example, evening classes or correspondence)
• You are absent from your usual place of residence, after having notified France Travail, within the limits of 35 days by calendar year
• You are on sick leave or temporarily unable to work for a period not exceeding 15 days
• You're incarcerated for no more than 15 days
• You have paternity leave.

You must respond to written summonses from France Travail (interviews, briefings, etc.).

Every month, you must update your situation.

In the 30 days at the latest following the registration on the list of jobseekers, you must draw up a contract of employment (formerly known as a personalized project for access to employment - PPAE) with your France Travail advisor.

The employment contract takes into account your training, your qualifications, your professional knowledge and skills, your personal and family situation and the situation of the local labor market.

Your employment agreement contains all of the following information:

• Nature and characteristics of the job sought
• Geographical area favored for the job sought
• Desired salary level.

Your employment contract specifies your rights regarding the acceptance or refusal of job offers and the means and time limits of appeal in case of sanction.

Your employment contract also defines the actions that France Travail undertakes to implement (for example, training, retraining, mobility aid).

You must accomplish regular steps for job search under your employment contract.

You must be able to provide France Travail with a justification for searches, for example:

• Job searches by producing copies of your applications
• Employer responses to your applications
• Your steps towards creation or resumption of a company.

You must accept an offer called reasonable employment, i.e. corresponding to your professional skills.

The reasonable offer of employment shall be determined on the basis of the following criteria:

• Your training, your qualifications, your professional knowledge and skills
• Your personal and family situation
• The situation of the local labor market
• The nature and characteristics of the job you are looking for (CDI, CDD, full-time or part-time)
• The geographical area of job search
• Expected salary.

You must accept any reasonable offer of employment.

In the event of refusal of 2 reasonable job offers without a legitimate reason on your part, you may be subject to a decision by delisting the list of jobseekers and a withdrawal of your allowance if you are compensated.

However, you can refuse to accept a proposed job offer if the job does not match:

• either at a lower salary level than the normal salary in your region and for the profession concerned (for example, the salary of the offer proposed is lower than the legal and contractual provisions of your profession),

• Either to a part-time job, if your employment contract you are looking for provides for full-time employment,

• A job that is not compatible with your professional qualifications and skills.

Your employment contract must be updated periodically.

During this update, your France Travail advisor will define with you the constituent elements of the reasonable job offer.