Can an employee receive unemployment benefit in case of resignation?

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

• Your previous the contract was terminated in one of the following cases:
  
  • Dismissal staff
  • Dismissal economic
  • Conventional breakage
  • End of CSD: titleContent

• You did not register as jobseeker since your last employment contract was terminated

• You were hired in DTA: titleContent and you voluntarily terminated your new contract:
  
  • Either less than 65 working days (3 months or 455 hours) after the date of hiring and if your resignation occurred before 1^er april 2025
  • Either less than 88 days worked (4 months or 610 hours) after the date of hiring and if your resignation occurred as of 1^er april 2025.

Before you resign, check that you meet all of these conditions.

You can estimate your rights to the ARE (and in particular check the number of working days) by consulting the simulator guide France Travail:

Guide to benefit and aid simulators from France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)

If you meet all of these conditions, you can collect the RCA.

If your resignation is not considered legitimate, However, there are 2 options to be compensated under the ERA:

• You work at least 3 months (65 working days or 455 hours) after you resign
• After 121 days of unemployment (about 4 months), you can ask France Travail the review of your situation to get the ARE.

A regional joint authority (RPI) of France Travail is responsible for verifying that the following 2 conditions are met:

• Complete the conditions of award of the ARE (other than the condition of involuntary deprivation of employment)
• Provide evidence of your active job search, possible short-term job openings and your steps to undertake training.

If your request is accepted, the starting point for the payment of the AER shall be as soon as possible 122^e day of unemployment.

Your resignation may be legitimate if you have not exhausted all your rights at the from a previous registration as a job seeker.

If you are in the process of being compensated by France Travail at the time of your resignation, payment of your allowance is not suspended in the following 3 cases:

• If you justify less than 65 days (minus 455 hours) worked since you became legally entitled
• If the contract from which you resigned lasted less than 8 calendar days (every day counts, including weekends and public holidays)
• If the contract from which you resigned was less than 17 hours per week.

Before you resign, check that you meet all of these conditions (including checking the working days).

You can estimate your rights to the ARE by consulting the guide of simulators France Travail:

Guide to benefit and aid simulators from France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)

The conditions for compensation differ depending on the pattern the reason for the move :

Your resignation may be legitimate if you resign when your employer does not pay you all or part of your salary for periods worked.

You must justify this situation by filing an interim order of the prud'homme council ordering your employer to pay the sums due.

Before you resign, check that you meet all of these conditions.

You can estimate your rights to the ARE by consulting the guide of simulators France Travail:

Guide to benefit and aid simulators from France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)

If you meet these conditions, you can collect the AER.

If your resignation is not considered legitimate, However, there are 2 options to be compensated under the ERA:

• You work at least 3 months (65 working days or 455 hours) after you resign
• After 121 days of unemployment (about 4 months), you can ask France Travail the review of your situation to get the ARE.

A regional joint authority (RPI) of France Travail is responsible for verifying that the following 2 conditions are met:

• Complete the conditions of award of the ARE (other than the condition of involuntary deprivation of employment)
• Provide evidence of your active job search, possible short-term job openings and your steps to undertake training.

If your request is accepted, the starting point for the payment of the AER shall be as soon as possible 122^e day of unemployment.

Your resignation may be legitimate if you are the victim of criminal acts in the course of your work (physical violence, harassment for example).

You have to justify to have lodged a complaint for one of these reasons. The receipt of the complaint shall be attached to the application.

Before you resign, check that you meet all of these conditions.

You can estimate your rights to the ARE by consulting the guide of simulators France Travail:

Guide to benefit and aid simulators from France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)

If you meet these conditions, you can collect the AER.

If your resignation is not considered legitimate, However, there are 2 options to be compensated under the ERA:

• You work at least 3 months (65 working days or 455 hours) after you resign
• After 121 days of unemployment (about 4 months), you can ask France Travail the review of your situation to get the ARE.

A regional joint authority (RPI) of France Travail is responsible for verifying that the following 2 conditions are met:

• Complete the conditions of award of the ARE (other than the condition of involuntary deprivation of employment)
• Provide evidence of your active job search, possible short-term job openings and your steps to undertake training.

If your request is accepted, the starting point for the payment of the AER shall be as soon as possible 122^e day of unemployment.

Your resignation may be lawful if the company you have set up or resumed ceases.

You must complete the 3 cumulative conditions following:

• You quit your job to create or resume a company that needs to be saved to the company formalities window
• You did not register as jobseeker after the termination of your last employment contract and you meet all the other conditions for receiving the AER (duration of affiliation, age, residence in the national territory, etc.).
• You are out of business for reasons beyond your control of the company you have set up or taken over.

Before you resign, check that you meet all of these conditions.

You can estimate your rights to the ARE by consulting the guide of simulators France Travail:

Guide to benefit and aid simulators from France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)

If you meet these conditions, you can collect the AER.

If your resignation is not considered legitimate, However, there are 2 options to be compensated under the ERA:

• You work at least 3 months (65 working days or 455 hours) after you resign
• After 121 days of unemployment (about 4 months), you can ask France Travail the review of your situation to get the ARE.

A regional joint authority (RPI) of France Travail is responsible for verifying that the following 2 conditions are met:

• Complete the conditions of award of the ARE (other than the condition of involuntary deprivation of employment)
• Provide evidence of your active job search, possible short-term job openings and your steps to undertake training.

If your request is accepted, the starting point for the payment of the AER shall be as soon as possible 122^e day of unemployment.

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.

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

If you meet these conditions, you can collect the AER.

Your professional project must be validated by a Transition Pro (ATpro) team.

Contact your Transition Pro branch in the region:

Transitions Pro Associations Site

Ministry of Labor

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If your project is validated, you may resign.

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.

Your resignation may be legitimate if it is justified by the conclusion of one of the following contracts:

• Civic service contract
• Contracts of international solidarity volunteering or voluntary association, of a minimum continuous duration of one year.

You are entitled to the ARE even if the mission is interrupted before the end of the minimum period of engagement provided for in the contract.

Before you resign, check that you meet all of these conditions.

You can estimate your rights to the ARE by consulting the guide of simulators France Travail:

Guide to benefit and aid simulators from France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)

If you meet this condition, you can collect the RCA.

If your resignation is not considered legitimate, However, there are 2 options to be compensated under the ERA:

• You work at least 3 months (65 working days or 455 hours) after you resign
• After 121 days of unemployment (about 4 months), you can ask France Travail the review of your situation to get the ARE.

A regional joint authority (RPI) of France Travail is responsible for verifying that the following 2 conditions are met:

• Complete the conditions of award of the ARE (other than the condition of involuntary deprivation of employment)
• Provide evidence of your active job search, possible short-term job openings and your steps to undertake training.

If your request is accepted, the starting point for the payment of the AER shall be as soon as possible 122^e day of unemployment.