Can an employee receive unemployment benefit in case of resignation?

Verified 13 août 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

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  • You have a job retraining project
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For any individual question, you can contact your agency France Travail.

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Your resignation may be legitimate if you complete the cumulative conditions following:

  • To be employed in DTA: titleContent 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 regional inter-branch joint committee (RIJC).

If your project is validated, you may resign.

Warning  

If you resign front that your project does not or validated by France TravailHowever, 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.

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