France Paid-Holiday Accrual During Sick Leave (post-2024 rules)
france_conges_arret_maladieHow many congés payés your sick-leave months actually earn under the April 2024 law — the opposite of what most of the internet still says. Computes the paid-holiday days (congés payés) you acquire in a reference period (1 June – 31 May) that includes sick leave, under France’s April 2024 reform (loi 2024-364 “DDADUE”, Code du travail L3141-3/-5/-5-1). Until that law, ordinary sick leave earned NO paid holiday — decades of French web pages and the AI trained on them still say so — but the law now says the opposite: ordinary sick months accrue 2 jours ouvrables per month (capped at 24 sick-accrued days per period) and work-accident/occupational-illness (AT/MP) months accrue the full 2.5, with the old one-year limit removed. The decisive input is the absence type — it changes both the rate and the cap — and the 15-month carry-over clock that only starts when your employer informs you decides whether the days survive at all.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| convention | No | Your company counts holiday in… The Code counts in jours ouvrables (6-day weeks, 30/year max). Many companies convert to jours ouvrés (5-day weeks, 25/year) — the ×5/6 conversion must never leave you worse off. | ouvrables |
| sickMonths | No | Months on sick leave in the reference period (mo) Months of sick absence between 1 June and 31 May (the legal reference period). Count each month the arrêt covered. | |
| absenceType | No | What kind of sick leave? THE gate — ordinary sick months accrue 2 jours ouvrables/month (sick-accrued portion capped at 24 per period); AT/MP months accrue the full 2.5, and the old one-year limit on AT/MP accrual is gone. | nonOccupational |
| workedMonths | No | Months worked in the same period (mo) Months actually worked (or otherwise fully assimilated to work — maternity leave, training…) in the same 1 June – 31 May period. Sick + worked cannot exceed 12. |