Gas firm keeps pension points during extended redeployment leave

Application des Gaz (ADG) of Saint-Genis-Laval concluded an agreement with the CGT union on 1 September 2026Legifrance keeping Agirc-Arrco supplementary pension contributions running for employees on reclassification leave under its employment-safeguard planLegifrance. The plan follows a reorganisation announced to the CSE on 2 March 2026 involving 22 post deletions, one of them vacant, and one creation, hence up to 21 economic dismissals; the PSE agreement was validated by the DREETS on 8 June 2026 and provides reclassification leave for dismissed employeesLegifrance.

The agreement covers every company employee affiliated to Agirc-Arrco who takes reclassification leave under the PSE agreementLegifrance. During the part of the leave that falls within the normal notice period, pay remains subject to contributions under normal payroll rules and the employee keeps acquiring Agirc-Arrco points as usual. During the part beyond the notice period, the employee receives a reclassification allowanceLegifrance exempt from social-security contributions except CSG and CRDSLegifrance, which would normally accrue no pointsLegifrance; to avoid that gap, the company and the employees keep paying Agirc-Arrco contributions on a reconstituted salary, defined as the pay the employee would have earned if still workingLegifrance, so points continue to accrueLegifrance. The legal hook is the second paragraph of article 81 of the 17 November 2017 national interprofessional agreement establishing the Agirc-Arrco schemeLegifrance.

The agreement runs for a fixed term until the end of the last reclassification leave resulting from the reorganisation, then lapses automatically without converting to an open-ended agreement; as a fixed-term text it cannot be denounced, only revised by avenant under articles L. 2261-7-1 and following of the Code du travail. It is filed under articles L. 2231-6 and D. 2231-2 and following, including on TéléAccords, with implementation reviewed by the parties and again at expiry.

Legal basis: the ADG accord on maintaining Agirc-Arrco contributions during reclassification leave beyond the notice period, signed 1 September 2026, under article 81 of the 17 November 2017 Agirc-Arrco ANI.