As an employee, when you express the desire to pursue a training program to acquire a higher qualification or to retrain, you have the option to request an individual training leave (CIF). To be granted this leave, certain conditions must be met.
Through this article, find all the procedures to follow for obtaining your training leave.
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What does the individual training leave actually consist of?
The CIF is a paid leave that allows the employee to:
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- take a training course to achieve a better level of qualification, change sectors,
- change professions,
- improve skills in the social and cultural field,
- attend an exam to obtain a title or professional diploma.
By default, unless agreed otherwise by the branch or the company, the CIF cannot exceed 1 year for full-time training and 1200 hours for part-time training. During this period, the employee remains covered by social security.
Procedure to follow to obtain the CIF
To be granted the individual training leave, the employee must send a leave request letter to their employer at least 4 months before the start of a training course lasting more than 6 months or within 2 months for a training course not exceeding 6 months. It is advisable that this letter be sent by registered mail with acknowledgment of receipt. This letter must be accompanied by a certificate of enrollment in the case of leave to attend an exam.
You will find a template for the individual training leave request letter on document-gratuit.fr. On this reference site, there are also numerous documents of all kinds such as letters, commercial documents, calendars, etc., that you can download for free and customize as you wish.
After submitting your request to your employer, they have one month to respond. However, except under certain specific conditions, they cannot refuse to grant you the CIF.
Conditions to be eligible for a CIF
These can be summarized in two points: seniority and waiting period.
To benefit from the CIF, the employee must have a certain seniority depending on their type of contract. In practice, an employee on a permanent contract must have worked for at least 2 years, whether consecutive or not. This period extends to 3 years if the sector is artisanal and the company has fewer than 10 employees. In either case, the employee must justify one year of work in the same company during this period.
As for the employee on a fixed-term contract, the same minimum period of 2 years, consecutive or not, applies, except that this period must be observed over the last 5 years with 4 months, consecutive or not, in the last year.
The condition regarding the waiting period stipulates that a minimum period must be observed between two CIFs. This period, which cannot be less than 6 months or exceed 6 years, is equal to one-twelfth of the duration (in hours) of the last individual training leave obtained by the employee. However, it should be noted that the waiting period is expressed in months.