Sanofi France sets 4 paid days for domestic-abuse victims

Staff of the French companies majority-held by Sanofi, from Sanofi and Pasteur to Chimie, R&D, Genzyme and Opella entities, work under a single consolidated special-leave accord.Legifrance The revision amendment, signed in Paris on 24 November 2023Legifrance for an indefinite period, replaces the 2006 accord, its three amendments and the 2018 and 2022 accords, and tops up the statutory and branch minima wherever it is more generous.

Paid special-leave days are taken around the event, extendable by fifteen days on either side at the employee's request, with proof except for the school-start allowance and the domestic-violence leave. They carry no seniority condition, count as presence with pay unaffected, and unused days are never cashed out.

Victims of physical, moral, sexual or financial domestic violence gain four new paid days per calendar yearLegifrance, usable whole or half days, for legal, judicial, psychological or specialist-association steps. The request goes confidentially through the assistante sociale without e-RH or further validation; the manager is informed of an authorised absence and the payslip shows a neutral line. Parental bereavement leave is updated to the statute: fourteen days in up to two periods within one year of the deathLegifrance for a child who died before 25 or a stillborn child (a stillbirth certificate from 22 weeks of amenorrhoea or 500 grams, a medical certificate before that). It is never deducted from annual leave, cumulates with the child-death absence, and salary is maintained net of daily allowances.

Marriage, remarriage or PACS gives five working days for the employee and two for a child or a partner's child; pregnancy brings 45 minutes a day from declaration and one hour a day from the fourth month. Maternity and adoption each add two weeks over the statutory leave, with adoption never below fourteen weeks. The fourteen-week child-welcome leave runs in one stretch or as eight weeks plus six weeks within twelve months, with written notice at least three months before the expected arrival. Death gives five days for a spouse or partner, seven for a child, three for parents, siblings and parents-in-law, two for grandchildren and one for grandparents and the partner's siblings, plus travel days beyond 1,000 km and 5,000 km; moving house gives one day a year. A sick child of sixteen or under gives 6 days for one or two children, 9 for three, 10 for four and 11 for five or more, usable in half days; hospitalisation gives six days for a spouse and the same child scale. School start gives two paid hours for a child entering maternelle, CP or 6ème.

A seriously ill child under twenty who is dependent gives twenty fully paid daysLegifrance once per illness and per child, after sick-child days, paid leave, RTT and CET days are exhausted; the written request with a sealed detailed certificate goes to HR fifteen days ahead via the occupational doctor. Exam preparation gives three days for secondary qualifications, one day per teaching unit up to four for higher education, and five paid days per new diploma for alternants. Employees receive five paid days a year from age 59 plus five in the retirement year, carers of a disabled dependant get a five-day annual credit, recognised disabled workers get three extra leave days, and family-solidarity leave for a life-threatening illness runs up to three months renewable twice without pay with a guaranteed return.

Legal basis: Accord relatif aux congés spéciaux dans le groupe Sanofi en France, signed 24 November 2023Legifrance and filed via TéléAccords and the Paris Conseil de Prud'hommes greffe under articles L.2231-5 et seq. and D.2231-2 of the Code du travail.