What is the DIF in an employment context? And how should it be paid?
The DIF (droit individuel la formation) is an individual right for each employee to seek further training and under French law every employee has the right to up to 20 hours of such training per calendar year. The employer must inform its employees each year of the number of hours they have accrued under this individual right to training. If the employee undertakes his/her training during working hours, the employer must nevertheless continue to pay him/her his normal salary. If the employee undertakes his/her training outside working hours, the employer must pay the employee an allowance for such training which corresponds to 50% of the net amount of salary.
