Subsection 1: Account funding

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Article R6323-1

French Labour CodeIn force

Updated 1 Nov 2023

I.-The personal training account of an employee who has worked more than or equal to half of the legal or conventional working time over the year as a whole is topped up by 500 euros for that year, up to a total ceiling of 5,000 euros.

II - The account of an employee who has worked less than half the legal or conventional working time over the year is topped up, for that year, by a fraction of the amount mentioned in I, calculated in proportion to the working time worked. When the calculation of his rights results in an amount in euros with decimals, this amount is rounded up to the second decimal place, to the next higher euro cent.

For employees whose full-time working hours are set in application of a collective agreement at company or branch level, the reference number of working hours for calculating the amount to be added to the personal training account is equal to the agreed working hours.

For employees whose full-time working hours are not set in application of a company or branch collective agreement, the reference number of working hours for calculating the amount to be added to the personal training account is equal to 1,607 hours.

For employees whose working hours are counted in days under a fixed annual number of days agreement, the reference number of working days for calculating the amount to be added to the personal training account is equal to the number of days included in the fixed annual number of days agreement as set by the collective agreement establishing the fixed annual number of days agreement, up to a limit of 218 days.

For employees whose remuneration is not based on working hours, the reference amount for calculating the amount to be added to the personal training account is set at 2,080 times the amount of the minimum hourly growth wage.

Contributions to the account of these employees are calculated in proportion to the ratio between the remuneration actually received and the reference amount mentioned in the previous paragraph.

III - The calculation of employees' entitlements is carried out by the Caisse des dépôts et consignations using data from the employers' nominative social declaration mentioned in article L. 133-5-3 of the Social Security Code in order to fund their personal training accounts.

An order issued by the Minister responsible for vocational training sets out the terms and conditions under which the fund carries out this calculation and funding when it does not receive this data and when the data it does receive is incomplete or erroneous.

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