Does an employee have hours of job search during the notice of resignation?
Verified 05 December 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
The Labor Code does not anticipate hours to look for a job during a notice of resignation.
However, a collective agreement, one collective agreement or a use in the company may allow the employee to benefit from a certain number of hours of absence to facilitate the search for a new job.
The conditions of use and the remuneration for these hours must be provided for in the collective agreement, the collective agreement, the usage or be negotiated directly with the employer.
In the absence of scheduled hours, the employee cannot leave the company to search for a new job during the period of notice. He must obtain the employer's consent to be absent.
One simulator lets you know whether the employee can benefit from absence authorizations during their notice to look for a job:
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