Employee on Assignment Permit

France

Type of Solution: Work & Skills

Further Details:

For companies performing services to its clients in France, temporary transfers have been facilitated. The foreign company may transfer any employee that has been employed for at least three months to by a company based outside of France to its client’s or other offices to perform a temporary assignment for an initial period of three years.

A similar permit exists for secondment, or transfer (dtachement), to the French client of your employer for a period generally not exceeding one year, allowing you to work on assignment under your foreign employment contract (for instance for performing services under a services agreement with your employer’s French client/customer).
Evidence must be shown that the employee receives a gross salary equal to 1.5 times the minimum wage. After a continuous secondment of 6 months in France, family members will be entitled to a private and family life permit allowing them to seek employment in France.