The skills development plan replaces the training plan. It allows employees to take training courses at the initiative of their employer, as opposed to training courses that they can take on their own initiative through their personal training account.

Beneficiaries:

Any employee can be targeted by a training action provided for in their company's skills development plan. In this case, going on training is treated as the normal performance of his employment contract. They may not object (except in special cases).

Training courses concerned:

• Mandatory or necessary training courses, which are those that are a condition for carrying out an activity or a function in application of an international agreement or legal and regulatory provisions. They constitute effective working time and are paid for by the employer.
  
• Non-compulsory training courses : these also constitute effective working time and are paid for by the employer, except when they take place outside working hours.

The cost of the training is borne by the company.

The retraining period replaces the "Collective Transitions" and "Reconversion or promotion by alternation (Pro-A)" schemes.

This is a scheme designed to support professional mobility, whether internal or external to the company, and to promote the social or professional advancement of employees.

Transition period vs Transition Pro

• The professional retraining period is a company-led scheme
• The Professional Transition Project (PTP), managed by Transitions Pro, is an employee-initiated scheme

Public

All employees, regardless of their previous employment status, age or level of qualification.

This scheme enables employees to obtain one of the following qualifications:

• A professional qualification registered in the Répertoire national des certifications professionnelles (RNCP),
• A certificate of professional qualification (CQP/CQPI), whether or not it is registered in the RNCP,
• One or more blocks of skills,
• The CléA foundation of professional knowledge and skills

Period of retraining

This may include:

• Training activities, lasting between 150 and 450 hours over a 12-month period. A company or branch agreement may provide for a longer duration of training and a longer period of completion, up to a maximum of 2,100 hours of training, over a period not exceeding 36 months.
• Periods for acquiring know-how in a professional situation
• Actions to validate acquired experience (VAE)

Methods

Transformation may take place:

• Internal

- In the same company

- The employment contract is maintained

• External

- In another company

-. The contract may be suspended or transformed (fixed-term contract/permanent contract)

Financing of the retraining period

The OPCO covers the educational costs of the training activities carried out during the retraining periods in accordance with the conditions of the professional branch to which the company belongs.

If the professional branches fail to set a flat-rate amount for reimbursement, this is set at €9.15 per hour.

The employee can also use their CPF account to top up the funding.

Beneficiaries

Any person aged 16 or over (15 for young people with an apprenticeship contract), who is employed, looking for work, a member of a liberal profession or self-employed, has a personal training account. 

Any person aged 16 or over (15 for young people on an apprenticeship contract), who is employed, looking for work, a member of a liberal profession or self-employed, has a personal training account. 

How it works

For a full-time employee, the account is topped up by €500 per year, up to a ceiling of €5000 and €800 for the least qualified (ceiling €8000). For an employee working part-time, the account is funded in proportion to the time worked.

Additional contributions above the ceiling can be made by the employer, an OPCO, France Travail ...

Training courses concerned

The training courses that can be taken using the personal training account (known as "eligible training courses") are essentially training courses leading to qualifications and certification. The aim is to facilitate the achievement of a professional development project, within or outside the company, or a project to access or return to employment.

The training courses that can be taken using the personal training account (known as "eligible training courses") are mainly training leading to qualifications and certification.

The training courses eligible for the personal training account include:

- training courses leading to professional certifications registered , and - training courses leading to validation certificates for blocks of skills

- training courses leading to certifications and authorisations registered
in the specific repertoire (RS)
- courses leading to validation of acquired experience (VAE support)
- skills assessments
- preparation for the theory test of the Highway Code and the practical test for the
Light and Heavy Group Driving Licence

Financing

The cost of the training is paid directly via your CPF account

• if the amount available in your account is sufficient to cover the cost of the training, you only pay a "compulsory financial contribution" of €150 from 2 April 2026 .
• If the amount available in your account is insufficient to cover the cost of the training, the difference is payable by you or may be matched by your employer.

You are not affected by the compulsory financial contribution if you receive additional funding from your employer.

Please note: There is a ceiling on funding for certain training courses:

• €1,500 for training courses in the Répertoire Spécifique, with the exception of those leading to certification relating to the professional knowledge and skills base (Cléa)
• €1,600 for skills assessments 

More info on your CPF rights: https://www.moncompteformation.gouv.fr

The professional transition project ( PTP) replaces individual training leave (CIF); It enables employees wishing to change jobs or professions to finance training leading to certification in line with their project.

Beneficiaries:

The employee must provide proof of at least twenty-four months' seniority, consecutive or otherwise, including twelve months with the company, regardless of the nature of successive employment contracts.

Training courses concerned:

Certifying training courses eligible for the personal training account (CPF)