French Labour Code
In forceI.-When the person concerned has taken up paid employment before having exhausted the rights to the insurance allowance previously granted to him/her, he/she benefits, in the event of loss of this new activity, from the resumption of payment of the balance of his/her rights until they are exhausted.
If the person concerned has been insured for at least nine hundred and ten hours or one hundred and thirty days in respect of activities carried out prior to the date on which the rights referred to in the previous paragraph are exhausted, he/she will benefit, on that date, from rights to the insurance allowance, the duration and amount of which take account of these activities.
II - When the person concerned has not exhausted the insurance allowance rights previously granted to him/her and he/she fulfils the conditions that would allow new rights to be opened up, he/she may, by way of derogation from the provisions of I of this article, opt for a duration, and the amount of compensation to which he/she is entitled according to this duration, that takes exclusive account of these new rights if :
1° The total amount of his remaining entitlement is less than or equal to an amount set in the unemployment insurance agreement provided for in article L. 5422-20;
2° Or the total amount of the entitlement that would have been paid in the absence of a remainder is greater than the amount of the daily allowance for the remainder by at least a fraction set in the unemployment insurance agreement provided for in article L. 5422-20.
III -Where the person concerned has not exhausted the rights to insurance benefit previously granted to him/her under the contracts provided for in Articles L. 6221-1 and L. 6325-1, and where he/she fulfils the conditions that would allow new rights to be opened up, he/she may, by way of derogation from the provisions of I of this article, opt for a duration and amount of compensation that takes exclusive account of these new rights.
