Can an employee receive unemployment benefit in case of resignation?

Verified 03 novembre 2021 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

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If I resign, do I qualify for unemployment benefits?

It's a common misconception!

If you resign, you cannot collect unemployment benefits right away.

There are, however, some cases where resignation may be considered lawful by Pôle emploi.

In these specific cases, you may then be entitled to return-to-work benefits immediately after resigning.

This is the case if:

- You move to follow the person you live with as a couple

- You go to training

- Your employer no longer pays you salary

- You are the victim of criminal acts at work (such as physical violence, or harassment)

- You create or take back a company

- You have a job retraining project

- You go on civic service or volunteer

- You have already been registered in Pôle emploi, but you have not exhausted all your rights to compensation

- You were laid off and then found a new job that you left within 65 days of hiring

If you're not in one of these situations, don't worry: it doesn't mean you'll never get an allowance. But you'll have to wait. After 121 days of unemployment, or about 4 months, you can ask Pôle emploi to review your file.

In order to be eligible for the ARE in the event of a resignation for a retraining project, you must complete 4 cumulative conditions :

  • You must resign from a DTA: titleContent after 31 october 2019
  • You have been employed continuously for 5 years (1,300 days worked) by one or more employers in the 60 months preceding your termination of the employment contract
  • You are pursuing a real and serious professional retraining project requiring the follow-up of a training or a company creation project
  • Your request for a CEP must be made before the termination of the employment contract. Otherwise, the project will not be eligible and you will not be able to benefit from the unemployment benefit

Before leaving your job, you must first follow the free and personalized support system of the professional development consultancy (CEP).

Your professional project must be validated by a regional inter-professional joint committee (RIJC)

You must register as a job seeker in the 6 months that follow the validation of your project.

Pôle emploi verifies that you have carried out the planned steps and included in your conversion project.

If this is the case, you are compensated like any job seeker, during and after the project implementation period.

Please note

permanent civil servants and public service contractors are not eligible for the scheme.

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