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Can an employee receive unemployment benefit in case of resignation?
Verified 13 August 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
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You're in DTADTA : Contract of employment of indefinite duration and you want to resign? In principle, resignation does not allow you to benefit from the Return to Employment Benefit (RJA). However, in some cases, your resignation may be considered legitimate by France Travail. She then qualifies for the ARE under the usual conditions. We're doing an update on the regulations.
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Warning
For any individual questions, it is recommended that contact your agency France Travail.
Your resignation may be considered legitimate if you complete the whole the following conditions:
- Your previous the contract was terminated in one of the following cases:
- Dismissal staff
- Dismissal economic
- Conventional breakage
- End of CSDCSD : Fixed-term contract
- You did not register as jobseeker since your last employment contract was terminated
- You were hired in DTADTA : Contract of employment of indefinite duration and you voluntarily terminated your new contract less than 65 working days after the date of employment.
Before you resign, check that you meet all of these conditions.
You can estimate your rights to the ARE (and in particular check the number of working days) by consulting the simulator guide France Travail:
Guide to benefit and aid simulators from France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)
Reminder
For any individual questions, you can contact your agency France Travail.
If you meet all of these conditions, you can collect the RCA.
If your resignation is not considered legitimate, However, there are 2 options to be compensated under the ERA:
- You work at least 3 months (65 working days or 455 hours) after you resign
- After 121 days of unemployment (about 4 months), you can ask France Travail the review of your situation to get the ARE.
A regional joint authority (RPI) of France Travail is responsible for verifying that the following 2 conditions are met:
- Complete the conditions of award of the ARE (other than the condition of involuntary deprivation of employment)
- Provide evidence of your active job search, possible short-term job openings and your steps to undertake training.
If your request is accepted, the starting point for the payment of the AER shall be as soon as possible 122e day of unemployment.
Please note
If you have problems with the services of France Travail, you can enter the mediator of France Travail.
Your resignation may be legitimate if you have not exhausted all your rights at the from a previous registration as a job seeker.
If you are in the process of being compensated by France Travail at the time of your resignation, payment of your allowance is not suspended in the following 3 cases:
- If you justify less than 65 days (minus 455 hours) worked since you became legally entitled
- If the contract from which you resigned lasted less than 8 calendar days (every day counts, including weekends and public holidays)
- If the contract from which you resigned was less than 17 hours per week.
Before you resign, check that you meet all of these conditions (including checking the working days).
You can estimate your rights to the ARE by consulting the guide of simulators France Travail:
Guide to benefit and aid simulators from France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)
Reminder
For any individual questions, you can contact your agency France Travail.
Please note
If you have problems with the services of France Travail, you can enter the mediator of France Travail.
The conditions for compensation differ depending on the pattern the reason for the move :
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You resign to follow the person you live with as a couple
Your resignation may be legitimate if you follow the person you live with as a couple who move for a professional purpose (whether or not employed).
Before you resign, check that you meet this condition.
You can estimate your rights to the ARE by consulting the guide of simulators France Travail:
Guide to benefit and aid simulators from France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)
Reminder
For any individual questions, you can contact your agency France Travail.
If you meet this condition, you can collect the RCA.
If your resignation is not considered legitimate, However, there are 2 options to be compensated under the ERA:
- You work at least 3 months (65 working days or 455 hours) after you resign
- After 121 days of unemployment (about 4 months), you can ask France Travail the review of your situation to get the ARE.
A regional joint authority (RPI) of France Travail is responsible for verifying that the following 2 conditions are met:
- Complete the conditions of award of the ARE (other than the condition of involuntary deprivation of employment)
- Provide evidence of your active job search, possible short-term job openings and your steps to undertake training.
If your request is accepted, the starting point for the payment of the AER shall be as soon as possible 122e day of unemployment.
You resign to follow the person you're marrying or moving on
Your resignation may be legitimate due to your marriage or the signature of a Civil partnershipsCivil partnerships : Civil Solidarity Pact when it results in a move. Your new address should not allow you to preserve your professional activity.
Please note
Less than 2 months must elapse between the date of marriage or Civil partnershipsCivil partnerships : Civil Solidarity Pact and the date of the resignation or termination of the contract of employment (regardless of whether the marriage or Civil partnership is entered into before or after the resignation).
Before you resign, check that you meet all of these conditions.
You can estimate your rights to the ARE by consulting the guide of simulators France Travail:
Guide to benefit and aid simulators from France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)
Reminder
For any individual questions, you can contact your agency France Travail.
If you meet these conditions, you can collect the AER.
If your resignation is not considered legitimate, However, there are 2 options to be compensated under the ERA:
- You work at least 3 months (65 working days or 455 hours) after you resign
- After 121 days of unemployment (about 4 months), you can ask France Travail the review of your situation to get the ARE.
A regional joint authority (RPI) of France Travail is responsible for verifying that the following 2 conditions are met:
- Complete the conditions of award of the ARE (other than the condition of involuntary deprivation of employment)
- Provide evidence of your active job search, possible short-term job openings and your steps to undertake training.
If your request is accepted, the starting point for the payment of the AER shall be as soon as possible 122e day of unemployment.
You resign because you are a victim of domestic violence
Your resignation may be legitimate if your move is justified by domestic violence.
Your new address does not allow you to keep your professional activity.
You must have filed a complaint for this reason. The receipt of lodging of a complaint shall be attached to the claim for compensation.
Before you resign, check that you meet all of these conditions.
You can estimate your rights to the ARE by consulting the guide of simulators France Travail:
Guide to benefit and aid simulators from France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)
Reminder
For any individual questions, you can contact your agency France Travail.
If you meet these conditions, you can collect the AER.
If your resignation is not considered legitimate, However, there are 2 options to be compensated under the ERA:
- You work at least 3 months (65 working days or 455 hours) after you resign
- After 121 days of unemployment (about 4 months), you can ask France Travail the review of your situation to get the ARE.
A regional joint authority (RPI) of France Travail is responsible for verifying that the following 2 conditions are met:
- Complete the conditions of award of the ARE (other than the condition of involuntary deprivation of employment)
- Provide evidence of your active job search, possible short-term job openings and your steps to undertake training.
If your request is accepted, the starting point for the payment of the AER shall be as soon as possible 122e day of unemployment.
You resign to follow your disabled child placed in a remote reception facility
Your resignation may be legitimate if your move is explained by the placement of your disabled child in a remote reception facility.
Your new address does not allow you to keep your professional activity.
Before you resign, check that you meet all of these conditions.
You can estimate your rights to the ARE by consulting the guide of simulators France Travail:
Guide to benefit and aid simulators from France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)
Reminder
For any individual questions, you can contact your agency France Travail.
If you meet these conditions, you can collect the AER.
If your resignation is not considered legitimate, However, there are 2 options to be compensated under the ERA:
- You work at least 3 months (65 working days or 455 hours) after you resign
- After 121 days of unemployment (about 4 months), you can ask France Travail the review of your situation to get the ARE.
A regional joint authority (RPI) of France Travail is responsible for verifying that the following 2 conditions are met:
- Complete the conditions of award of the ARE (other than the condition of involuntary deprivation of employment)
- Provide evidence of your active job search, possible short-term job openings and your steps to undertake training.
If your request is accepted, the starting point for the payment of the AER shall be as soon as possible 122e day of unemployment.
You're a minor and you're resigning to follow your parents
Your resignation may be legitimate if you have under 18 and that you are following your parents (or the person exercising parental authority) who are moving.
Before you resign, check that you meet all of these conditions.
You can estimate your rights to the ARE by consulting the guide of simulators France Travail:
Guide to benefit and aid simulators from France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)
Reminder
For any individual questions, you can contact your agency France Travail.
If you meet these conditions, you can collect the AER.
If your resignation is not considered legitimate, However, there are 2 options to be compensated under the ERA:
- You work at least 3 months (65 working days or 455 hours) after you resign
- After 121 days of unemployment (about 4 months), you can ask France Travail the review of your situation to get the ARE.
A regional joint authority (RPI) of France Travail is responsible for verifying that the following 2 conditions are met:
- Complete the conditions of award of the ARE (other than the condition of involuntary deprivation of employment)
- Provide evidence of your active job search, possible short-term job openings and your steps to undertake training.
If your request is accepted, the starting point for the payment of the AER shall be as soon as possible 122e day of unemployment.
You are an adult and you resign to follow your curator or guardian
Your resignation may be legitimate if you have over 18 years, placed under trusteeship or guardianship, and that you are following your designated parent trustee, trustee or guardian, who is moving.
Your new address does not allow you to keep your professional activity.
Before you resign, check that you meet all of these conditions.
You can estimate your rights to the ARE by consulting the guide of simulators France Travail:
Guide to benefit and aid simulators from France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)
Reminder
For any individual questions, you can contact your agency France Travail.
If you meet these conditions, you can collect the AER.
If your resignation is not considered legitimate, However, there are 2 options to be compensated under the ERA:
- You work at least 3 months (65 working days or 455 hours) after you resign
- After 121 days of unemployment (about 4 months), you can ask France Travail the review of your situation to get the ARE.
A regional joint authority (RPI) of France Travail is responsible for verifying that the following 2 conditions are met:
- Complete the conditions of award of the ARE (other than the condition of involuntary deprivation of employment)
- Provide evidence of your active job search, possible short-term job openings and your steps to undertake training.
If your request is accepted, the starting point for the payment of the AER shall be as soon as possible 122e day of unemployment.
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You resign to follow the person you live with as a couple
Your resignation may be legitimate if you follow the person you live with as a couple who move for a professional purpose (whether or not employed).
Before you resign, check that you meet this condition.
You can estimate your rights to the ARE by consulting the guide of simulators France Travail:
Guide to benefit and aid simulators from France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)
Reminder
For any individual questions, you can contact your agency France Travail.
If you meet this condition, you can collect the RCA.
If your resignation is not considered legitimate, However, there are 2 options to be compensated under the ERA:
- You work at least 3 months (65 working days or 455 hours) after you resign
- After 121 days of unemployment (about 4 months), you can ask France Travail the review of your situation to get the ARE.
A regional joint authority (RPI) of France Travail is responsible for verifying that the following 2 conditions are met:
- Complete the conditions of award of the ARE (other than the condition of involuntary deprivation of employment)
- Provide evidence of your active job search, possible short-term job openings and your steps to undertake training.
If your request is accepted, the starting point for the payment of the AER shall be as soon as possible 122e day of unemployment.
You resign to follow the person you're marrying or moving on
Your resignation may be legitimate due to your marriage or the signature of a Civil partnershipsCivil partnerships : Civil Solidarity Pact when it results in a move. Your new address should not allow you to preserve your professional activity.
Please note
Less than 2 months must elapse between the date of marriage or Civil partnershipsCivil partnerships : Civil Solidarity Pact and the date of the resignation or termination of the contract of employment (regardless of whether the marriage or Civil partnership is entered into before or after the resignation).
Before you resign, check that you meet all of these conditions.
You can estimate your rights to the ARE by consulting the guide of simulators France Travail:
Guide to benefit and aid simulators from France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)
Reminder
For any individual questions, you can contact your agency France Travail.
If you meet these conditions, you can collect the AER.
If your resignation is not considered legitimate, However, there are 2 options to be compensated under the ERA:
- You work at least 3 months (65 working days or 455 hours) after you resign
- After 121 days of unemployment (about 4 months), you can ask France Travail the review of your situation to get the ARE.
A regional joint authority (RPI) of France Travail is responsible for verifying that the following 2 conditions are met:
- Complete the conditions of award of the ARE (other than the condition of involuntary deprivation of employment)
- Provide evidence of your active job search, possible short-term job openings and your steps to undertake training.
If your request is accepted, the starting point for the payment of the AER shall be as soon as possible 122e day of unemployment.
You resign because you are a victim of domestic violence
Your resignation may be legitimate if your move is justified by domestic violence.
Your new address does not allow you to keep your professional activity.
You must have filed a complaint for this reason. The receipt of lodging of a complaint shall be attached to the claim for compensation.
Before you resign, check that you meet all of these conditions.
You can estimate your rights to the ARE by consulting the guide of simulators France Travail:
Guide to benefit and aid simulators from France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)
Reminder
For any individual questions, you can contact your agency France Travail.
If you meet these conditions, you can collect the AER.
If your resignation is not considered legitimate, However, there are 2 options to be compensated under the ERA:
- You work at least 3 months (65 working days or 455 hours) after you resign
- After 121 days of unemployment (about 4 months), you can ask France Travail the review of your situation to get the ARE.
A regional joint authority (RPI) of France Travail is responsible for verifying that the following 2 conditions are met:
- Complete the conditions of award of the ARE (other than the condition of involuntary deprivation of employment)
- Provide evidence of your active job search, possible short-term job openings and your steps to undertake training.
If your request is accepted, the starting point for the payment of the AER shall be as soon as possible 122e day of unemployment.
You resign to follow your disabled child placed in a remote reception facility
Your resignation may be legitimate if your move is explained by the placement of your disabled child in a remote reception facility.
Your new address does not allow you to keep your professional activity.
Before you resign, check that you meet all of these conditions.
You can estimate your rights to the ARE by consulting the guide of simulators France Travail:
Guide to benefit and aid simulators from France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)
Reminder
For any individual questions, you can contact your agency France Travail.
If you meet these conditions, you can collect the AER.
If your resignation is not considered legitimate, However, there are 2 options to be compensated under the ERA:
- You work at least 3 months (65 working days or 455 hours) after you resign
- After 121 days of unemployment (about 4 months), you can ask France Travail the review of your situation to get the ARE.
A regional joint authority (RPI) of France Travail is responsible for verifying that the following 2 conditions are met:
- Complete the conditions of award of the ARE (other than the condition of involuntary deprivation of employment)
- Provide evidence of your active job search, possible short-term job openings and your steps to undertake training.
If your request is accepted, the starting point for the payment of the AER shall be as soon as possible 122e day of unemployment.
You're a minor and you're resigning to follow your parents
Your resignation may be legitimate if you have under 18 and that you are following your parents (or the person exercising parental authority) who are moving.
Before you resign, check that you meet all of these conditions.
You can estimate your rights to the ARE by consulting the guide of simulators France Travail:
Guide to benefit and aid simulators from France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)
Reminder
For any individual questions, you can contact your agency France Travail.
If you meet these conditions, you can collect the AER.
If your resignation is not considered legitimate, However, there are 2 options to be compensated under the ERA:
- You work at least 3 months (65 working days or 455 hours) after you resign
- After 121 days of unemployment (about 4 months), you can ask France Travail the review of your situation to get the ARE.
A regional joint authority (RPI) of France Travail is responsible for verifying that the following 2 conditions are met:
- Complete the conditions of award of the ARE (other than the condition of involuntary deprivation of employment)
- Provide evidence of your active job search, possible short-term job openings and your steps to undertake training.
If your request is accepted, the starting point for the payment of the AER shall be as soon as possible 122e day of unemployment.
You are an adult and you resign to follow your curator or guardian
Your resignation may be legitimate if you have over 18 years, placed under trusteeship or guardianship, and that you are following your designated parent trustee, trustee or guardian, who is moving.
Your new address does not allow you to keep your professional activity.
Before you resign, check that you meet all of these conditions.
You can estimate your rights to the ARE by consulting the guide of simulators France Travail:
Guide to benefit and aid simulators from France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)
Reminder
For any individual questions, you can contact your agency France Travail.
If you meet these conditions, you can collect the AER.
If your resignation is not considered legitimate, However, there are 2 options to be compensated under the ERA:
- You work at least 3 months (65 working days or 455 hours) after you resign
- After 121 days of unemployment (about 4 months), you can ask France Travail the review of your situation to get the ARE.
A regional joint authority (RPI) of France Travail is responsible for verifying that the following 2 conditions are met:
- Complete the conditions of award of the ARE (other than the condition of involuntary deprivation of employment)
- Provide evidence of your active job search, possible short-term job openings and your steps to undertake training.
If your request is accepted, the starting point for the payment of the AER shall be as soon as possible 122e day of unemployment.
Please note
If you have problems with the services of France Travail, you can enter the mediator of France Travail.
Your resignation may be legitimate if you resign when your employer does not pay you all or part of your salary for periods worked.
You must justify this situation by filing an interim order of the prud'homme council ordering your employer to pay the sums due.
Before you resign, check that you meet all of these conditions.
You can estimate your rights to the ARE by consulting the guide of simulators France Travail:
Guide to benefit and aid simulators from France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)
Reminder
For any individual questions, you can contact your agency France Travail.
If you meet these conditions, you can collect the AER.
If your resignation is not considered legitimate, However, there are 2 options to be compensated under the ERA:
- You work at least 3 months (65 working days or 455 hours) after you resign
- After 121 days of unemployment (about 4 months), you can ask France Travail the review of your situation to get the ARE.
A regional joint authority (RPI) of France Travail is responsible for verifying that the following 2 conditions are met:
- Complete the conditions of award of the ARE (other than the condition of involuntary deprivation of employment)
- Provide evidence of your active job search, possible short-term job openings and your steps to undertake training.
If your request is accepted, the starting point for the payment of the AER shall be as soon as possible 122e day of unemployment.
Please note
If you have problems with the services of France Travail, you can enter the mediator of France Travail.
Your resignation may be legitimate if you are the victim of criminal acts in the course of your work (physical violence, harassment for example).
You have to justify to have lodged a complaint for one of these reasons. The receipt of the complaint shall be attached to the application.
Before you resign, check that you meet all of these conditions.
You can estimate your rights to the ARE by consulting the guide of simulators France Travail:
Guide to benefit and aid simulators from France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)
Reminder
For any individual questions, you can contact your agency France Travail.
If you meet these conditions, you can collect the AER.
If your resignation is not considered legitimate, However, there are 2 options to be compensated under the ERA:
- You work at least 3 months (65 working days or 455 hours) after you resign
- After 121 days of unemployment (about 4 months), you can ask France Travail the review of your situation to get the ARE.
A regional joint authority (RPI) of France Travail is responsible for verifying that the following 2 conditions are met:
- Complete the conditions of award of the ARE (other than the condition of involuntary deprivation of employment)
- Provide evidence of your active job search, possible short-term job openings and your steps to undertake training.
If your request is accepted, the starting point for the payment of the AER shall be as soon as possible 122e day of unemployment.
Please note
If you have problems with the services of France Travail, you can enter the mediator of France Travail.
Your resignation may be lawful if the company you have set up or resumed ceases.
You must complete the 3 cumulative conditions following:
- You quit your job to create or resume a company that needs to be saved to the company formalities window
- You did not register as jobseeker after the termination of your last employment contract and you meet all the other conditions for receiving the AER (duration of affiliation, age, residence in the national territory, etc.).
- You are out of business for reasons beyond your control of the company you have set up or taken over.
Before you resign, check that you meet all of these conditions.
You can estimate your rights to the ARE by consulting the guide of simulators France Travail:
Guide to benefit and aid simulators from France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)
Reminder
For any individual questions, you can contact your agency France Travail.
If you meet these conditions, you can collect the AER.
If your resignation is not considered legitimate, However, there are 2 options to be compensated under the ERA:
- You work at least 3 months (65 working days or 455 hours) after you resign
- After 121 days of unemployment (about 4 months), you can ask France Travail the review of your situation to get the ARE.
A regional joint authority (RPI) of France Travail is responsible for verifying that the following 2 conditions are met:
- Complete the conditions of award of the ARE (other than the condition of involuntary deprivation of employment)
- Provide evidence of your active job search, possible short-term job openings and your steps to undertake training.
If your request is accepted, the starting point for the payment of the AER shall be as soon as possible 122e day of unemployment.
Please note
If you have problems with the services of France Travail, you can enter the mediator of France Travail.
Your resignation may be legitimate if you complete the cumulative conditions following:
- To be employed in DTADTA : Contract of employment of indefinite duration of private law at the time of your resignation
- Justify at least 1,300 days worked in the last 60 months (5 years)
- Have a well-prepared career transition project that is recognized as real and serious.
Please note
The 1,300 days may have been worked by one or more employers. Leave without pay, sabbatical or periods of availability are not taken into account.
Before you resign, check that you meet all of these conditions. An online service checks whether you meet the conditions:
Resignation reconversion: the construction and validation stages of your project
Reminder
For any individual questions, you can contact your agency France Travail.
If you meet these conditions, you can collect the AER.
Your professional project must be validated by a Transition Pro (ATpro) team.
Contact your Transition Pro branch in the region:
If your project is validated, you may resign.
Warning
If you resign front that your project does not be validated by ATproHowever, you will not be eligible for unemployment benefit.
You must register as a job seeker in the 6 months that follow the validation of your project.
If this is the case, you are compensated like any job seeker, during and after the project implementation period.
Please note
If you have problems with the services of France Travail, you can enter the mediator of France Travail.
Your resignation may be legitimate if it is justified by the conclusion of one of the following contracts:
- Civic service contract
- Contracts of international solidarity volunteering or voluntary association, of a minimum continuous duration of one year.
You are entitled to the ARE even if the mission is interrupted before the end of the minimum period of engagement provided for in the contract.
Before you resign, check that you meet all of these conditions.
You can estimate your rights to the ARE by consulting the guide of simulators France Travail:
Guide to benefit and aid simulators from France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)
Reminder
For any individual questions, you can contact your agency France Travail.
If you meet this condition, you can collect the RCA.
If your resignation is not considered legitimate, However, there are 2 options to be compensated under the ERA:
- You work at least 3 months (65 working days or 455 hours) after you resign
- After 121 days of unemployment (about 4 months), you can ask France Travail the review of your situation to get the ARE.
A regional joint authority (RPI) of France Travail is responsible for verifying that the following 2 conditions are met:
- Complete the conditions of award of the ARE (other than the condition of involuntary deprivation of employment)
- Provide evidence of your active job search, possible short-term job openings and your steps to undertake training.
If your request is accepted, the starting point for the payment of the AER shall be as soon as possible 122e day of unemployment.
Please note
If you have problems with the services of France Travail, you can enter the mediator of France Travail.
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Conditions for the award of unemployment benefit
Special provisions applicable to beneficiaries of the insurance allowance following resignation
Vocational retraining project
Article 26 of the annexed General Regulation (balance of duties)
Legitimate resignation
Implementing Agreements No. 12-§1 (review of rights) and No. 14 (legitimate resignation)
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