Employer certificate for France Travail (formerly Job center)

The employer issues a France Travail certificate to the employee at the end of the employment contract.

This document shall be provided in particular in the following cases:

• Dismissal
• Resignation
• Conventional rupture
• Departure or retirement
• Acknowledgement of the breach of contract
• Break of the trial period
• Early termination or termination of the apprenticeship or professionalization contract
• End or early break of CDD: titleContent
• Termination of the employment contract of the childminder (removal of the child, resignation, retirement)
• Termination of the contract of employee of the individual employer (dismissal, resignation, breach of contract, departure or retirement, following death of the individual employer)
• End of temporary assignment contract in a company of temporary work
• End of CDD and provision of employees of a intermediate association.

Yes, the employer holds available to the employee, on company premises, a printed copy of the France Travail certificate.

The employer did not not the obligation send the certificate to the employee by post. The document is querulous.

The France Travail certificate allows the employee to assert his rights to unemployment benefit, subject to conditions.

The employer is available from the employee the France Travail attestation to the end date of the employment contract, i.e. at the end of the notice period even if he is not working.

If the France Travail certificate contains false or incomplete information, the employee may ask the employer to correct the certificate.

For example, it may be an inaccurate reason for the termination of the employment contract.

If the employer does not rectify the France Travail certificate or sends a new erroneous certificate, the employee may enter the Labor Court (CPH).

The method of transmission of the certificate to France Travail depends on the number of employees in the company:

The absence of delivery or the late delivery of the France Travail certificate may cause a delay in payment of unemployment benefit (ARE).

If this is the case, the employee can seize the Labor Court (CPH). Of damages and interest may then be paid if the damage is recognized.

Yes. An employer who fails to submit the certificate to France Travail may be ordered by the judge to pay a fine of up to €1,500 if it's a natural person.

This amount may be increased to €3,000  in case of recurrence where provided for in the Regulation.

If the employer is a legal person, the fine may be up to €7,500.