Lyon wholesaler grants up to six seniority leave days

Niko France SARL, a Lyon wholesale-trade companyLegifrance with usually fewer than fifty employees and no union delegate, grants its staff paid leave days linked to seniorityLegifrance and resets the company rules on splitting the main paid-leave blockLegifrance. The company agreement, signed in Lyon on 25 September 2026Legifrance with a titulaire member of the comité social et économique, applies indefinitely from 1 November 2026Legifrance.

Every employee under contract when the agreement takes effect, or hired afterwards, is coveredLegifrance, full time or part time and on any contract typeLegifrance. Seniority runs from the recognised entry date, each year counting full whatever the working pattern; the work quota at the calculation date sets the number of days.

At full time, staff receive one additional paid day at five years of seniorityLegifrance, two days at ten yearsLegifrance and three days at fifteen yearsLegifrance. From twenty years of seniority they receive four days, five days at twenty-five years and six days at thirty years and beyondLegifrance, capped at six days per calendar yearLegifrance on top of statutory paid leave and any more favourable conventional extrasLegifrance. The entitlement is set each year at the start of the calendar year: reaching a threshold between 1 January and 30 September brings that year's higher totalLegifrance, while reaching one between 1 October and 31 December counts from the following 1 JanuaryLegifrance. Moving up a tier grants the whole total for the new tier. Part-time entitlements are prorated to contractual working timeLegifrance, so five full-time days at 80 percent give four days; a mid-year quota change does not retroactively adjust credited rights apart from errors.

Seniority days are paid additional leave taken under paid-leave planning rules: prior request, employer approval, business needs and the departure order. They may be taken as whole or half days where the system allows. They are in principle taken in the attribution year and may be carried over until 31 March of the next year at the employee's request with the employer's agreementLegifrance; carry beyond that needs a statutory situation or an impossibility attributable to the employer. Rights not taken in time are lost where the employee is responsible, subject to legally protected carry; on termination, untaken seniority days follow the rules for untaken remunerated leave.

The continuous block of at least twelve working days of the main leave is allocated between 1 May and 31 October each yearLegifrance, unless employee and employer agree otherwise within the statutory rules. From 1 November 2026 the company regime replaces the supplementary regimeLegifrance: individual agreements can no longer depart from the splitting rules for covered situationsLegifrance, and no additional days are granted for splitting the main leave beyond the twelfth dayLegifrance. Fifth-week days do not count toward splitting extras. The new rules govern splitting from 1 November 2026 without retroactive effectLegifrance; mandatory leave-duration rules, more favourable conventional provisions for a determined category, and rights definitively acquired before that date are preservedLegifrance. The suppression applies collectively and automatically without individual consent, balanced by the seniority-day creation.

For 2026, rights are calculated on 1 November 2026 from recognised seniorityLegifrance: thresholds reached between 1 January and 31 October 2026 are credited in full from 1 November for staff on the headcount thenLegifrance, without prorating for the remaining months, and thresholds reached between 1 November and 31 December 2026 count from 1 January 2027Legifrance. Days granted for 2026 may be taken until 31 March 2027Legifrance. The company updates leave and payroll tracking and informs each employee of credited days.

Legal basis: Code du travail, articles L. 3141-21, L. 3141-23 and L. 2232-23-1, applied alongside the convention collective nationale des commerces de gros.