Disability: adapted company work

Verified 01 May 2023 - Legal and Administrative Information Directorate (Prime Minister)

The adapted company is a company of the ordinary working environment with the particularity of employing a certain number of persons with disabilities. To be hired, you must have been recognized as a Disabled Worker (DWW) and be unemployed. The working conditions are adapted to your abilities related to your disability.

The adapted company is a company of the ordinary working environment with the particularity of employing a proportion of disabled workers in the company's workforce.

In return, the adapted company receives financial aid for the employment of each worker with a disability.

The adapted company allows you to exercise a professional activity or to acquire a 1re professional experience taking into account your possibilities related to your disability.

The company can train you and move you to the company itself or to other employers.

The adapted company can also be a step to reach an ordinary company by offering 3 transition devices:

  1. The CDD Tremplin : this contract offers you individualized support to develop your professional project and trains you in the search for sustainable employment with other employers. It lasts 4 to 24 months and is concluded with a voluntary adapted company. This device is being tested until 31 December 2023 throughout France.
  2. The availability with an employer willing to hire you for 12 to 24 months. This system allows you to work with the employer concerned while remaining employed by the adapted company that accompanies you and trains you until the final hiring by the other employer.
  3. The adapted company of temporary work (EATT) offers you the possibility to carry out temporary assignments taking into account your possibilities linked to your disability at different employers while remaining an employee of the adapted company. It also offers support and training to improve your skills. This device is being tested until 31 December 2023 throughout France.

Warning  

the right company is not a medico-social structure, unlike establishments and services for support through work (State).

You can apply directly to a suitable company near you:

Directory of adapted companies

Your job advisor in Pôle emploi or a Cap emploi or a local mission can also offer you a suitable company.

To be hired by a suitable company, you must meet the following 2 conditions:

Other criteria are taken into account depending on whether you apply directly to a suitable company or are offered by your local job or mission referral counselor.

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Application for a suitable company

You must meet one of the following conditions:

  • Touch Disabled Adult Allowance (DAA)
  • Be older than 55
  • Get out of a establishment and labor support services (Esat) less than 1 year
  • Being a refugee or asylum seeker
  • Discharge from an institution and vocational rehabilitation services (ESRP) for less than 1 year
  • Leaving a medico-educational institute or a motor education institute or a medico-professional institute, for less than 1 year, with a professional project
  • Going out or being followed by a medical-social support service for adults with disabilities or a social support service or a unit for assessment, retraining and social and vocational guidance, with a professional project to be consolidated
  • Leave a localized unit for school inclusion (Ulis) or a regional adapted education institution (EREA), for less than 1 year
  • Leaving an apprenticeship training center for less than 1 year with a professional project to consolidate
  • Touch the category 1 or 2 invalidity pension, i.e. be disabled capable of gainful employment or disabled totally incapable of engaging in any occupation

Proposal from your local employment or mission advisor

You must meet one of the following conditions:

You have the status of an employee and are therefore subject to the same rules as other employees as regards the right to leave, social protection (sickness, maternity, unemployment benefits and retirement) and termination of the employment contract.

You are paid at least equal to the net monthly minimum, i.e. €1,383.08.

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