Is a temporary worker entitled to leave for a job transition project?

Verified 20 September 2023 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

If you are a temporary worker (often called temporary worker), you can benefit, under conditions, from a leave for a professional transition project (PTP), ex-individual training leave (Cif).

To obtain a TPP leave, you must meet 2 conditions cumulative :

  • 1,600 hours of acting service in the last 18 months
  • Of these 1,600 hours, 600 must have been worked in the temporary work company or group of temporary work companies where you make the request.

This seniority condition must be met by the day of your departure for training.

If you are in DTA: titleContent, periods without the performance of a mission shall be taken into account for the calculation of seniority.

There is no seniority requirement if you are under the employment obligation, that is, if you are in particular in any of the following 7 situations:

There is no seniority requirement either if you meet the following 2 conditions:

  • You have changed jobs as a result of being dismissed for economic reasons or incapacity
  • You did not take any training action between your dismissal and your re-employment.

Finally, there is no seniority requirement if you have lived 24 months (2 years) before your application for training:

  • Either an absence from work resulting from an occupational disease
  • Accident at work Either an absence from work resulting from an occupational disease or an absence from work of at least 6 months, consecutive or otherwise, resulting from a non-occupational disease, disease or accident.

Content

Your request for leave must include the following information:

  • Training action start date
  • Designation and duration of this training
  • Name of the organization responsible for the project
  • Name and date of the examination concerned

Deadlines to be respected

You must obtain a written leave of absence from your temporary work company.

A minimum deadline must also be respected.

It varies according to the length of the leave.

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Leave of less than 6 months or part-time training

The request must be made at least 60 days before the start of the leave.

Leave of 6 months or more

Part-time training

The request must be made at least 60 days before the start of the leave.

Full-time training

The request must be made at least 120 days before the start of the leave.

The temporary company of work must respond within 30 days.

They can accept the training, but they can also refuse it or delay it.

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Training is denied

The temporary company of work may refuse apply only if you do not meet the requirements to apply. For example, if the request is not specific enough or if the deadline for making an application is not met.

Training is delayed

The temporary company of work may defer leave is granted only if the date of application and the date of departure on leave occur during the same mission.

However, the postponement of the authorization is impossible in any of the following cases:

  • The aim of the training is to obtain a qualification in a different sector of activity
  • The duration of the training is more than 1200 hours.

Application for funding

You must apply to the Regional Inter-Professional Joint Commission (RIJC), also known as Transitions Pro association - competent, of the place of principal residence or of the place of work.

This is done by:

  • During your contract or at the latest 4 months after the end of your last contract (date of submission of the application)
  • And on condition that the training begins at later than 6 months after the end of your contract.

The Commission shall assess whether the proposed training is possible under a TPP.

Example :

Your contract ends on March 31.

You can apply for funding until July 31 if the training starts no later than 6 months after the end of the contract, i.e. the end of September.

Warning  

Check with your regional commission (association Transitions Pro) that it has not adopted any other rules.

In practice, you may be asked to submit the complete application no later than 3 months before the start of the training.

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During working time

Your remuneration during the TPP varies according to your reference salary.

The latter is calculated on the basis of the average salaries received during the last 600 hours of assignment on behalf of the temporary company of work in which you requested to be absent.

All or part of the additional costs (transport, meals, accommodation) may be covered by the IRPC.

Part of the cost of the training may be borne by you.

Totally outside working time

If training takes place totally outside working time, the Regional Inter-professional Joint Committee (RIJC) shall decide only on the reimbursement of teaching costs.

There is no request to take charge of a remuneration.

The duration of the leave shall be treated as a period of assignment for the purpose of calculating entitlements relating to seniority and leave.

You hold a training assignment contract.

You retain your social protection rights.

Warning  

If training takes place non-working time, you can apply to the regional inter-professional joint commission (IRJC) to ensure that you have social protection.

If you've already had a TPP, you have to wait a certain amount of time, says period of exemption, before it can benefit from another TPP.

This period of grace may not be less than 6 months and it may not be more than 6 years.

You can talk to a Career Development Advisor (CEC) about this project.

He can help you for free in your efforts.

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