Use of the unemployment-weather scheme for construction companies
Verified 22 October 2026 - Entreprendre Service Public / (Prime Minister)
If work on a construction site is made impossible or dangerous due to adverse weather conditions, the employer may decide to stop work. During the stoppage, employees can receive a specific allowance that compensates for the loss of salary. Under certain conditions, companies are reimbursed for the compensation paid to their employees by the unemployment-weather scheme managed by the CIBTP network.
Weather conditions (periods of heat waves, snow, frost, ice, rain and strong wind) and floods that make work unsafe or impossible are considered bad weather.
This impossibility may be linked to the health or safety of employees, but also to the nature or technique of the work to be performed.
FYI
Periods, for which Météo-France issues a threshold of orange vigilance or red vigilance « heatwave allow compensation for work stoppages due to bad weather.
Bills of Material | Activities concerned | ||
|---|---|---|---|
330 | 330-0 | COMPANY OF BUILDING AND PUBLIC WORKS, GENERAL COMPANY OF BUILDING | |
330-1 | Company of a building which carries out incidental public works activities | ||
330-2 | Company of buildings and public works | ||
330-3 | General company of building | ||
331 | 331-0 | COMPANY OF MASONRY, PLASTERWORK, CEMENT WORKS, CONCRETE, REINFORCED CONCRETE FOR BUILDING, EARTHMOVING AND DEMOLITION COMPANY FOR BUILDING | |
331-1 | Earthmoving and masonry company for the building, foundation by well and consolidation for the building | ||
331-11 | Company of earthworks and building pipelines, foundations per well and consolidation for the building | ||
331-13 | Company of cut stones, remodeling, gargoyle (preparation, cutting and implementation of building stones in construction sites), remodeling of stone facade. Application of coatings for hardening stones, fluatation, silicatization. | ||
331-14 | Building Demolition company | ||
331-15 | Company of scaffolding for the building | ||
331-16 | Company of laying and shaping of marble, marble-laying | ||
331-17 | Prepared Concrete Supply company | ||
331-2 | Company of cement works, concrete, reinforced concrete for building: piles cast in the excavation, assembly of prefabricated houses in cement | ||
331-3 | Plasterboard company: plaster partitions, ceiling, plaster ceilings | ||
332 | 332-0 | WOODEN FRAMING, CARPENTRY DU BUILDING, LAYING (ASSOCIATED OR NOT WITH MANUFACTURING) Classify the manufacture of metal carpentry (without laying) as 237-2, except for companies for the manufacture of stage sets | |
332-1 | Company of wooden frame | ||
332-11 | Company for mounting wooden houses (prefabricated) | ||
332-2 | Company for the manufacture and laying of carpentry, flooring and varnishing, laying of flooring and the manufacture of stage sets, lattices and wooden fences, jealousies, shutters and louvers, handrails of stairs | ||
332-3 | Company of associated carpentry and joinery | ||
333 | 333-0 | PLUMBING COVER (with or without heating system) | |
333-1 | Cover in all materials: slates, tiles, shingles, cardboard, bitumen board, copper, zinc (building zinc), thatch, straw, reed | ||
333-2 | Plumbing, sanitary facilities | ||
333-3 | Cover company, plumbing (without heating company) | ||
333-4 | Cover company, plumbing and heating | ||
333-5 | Plumbing, heating and electricity installation | ||
333-6 | Sealing: works for protection against water and other fluids: company of sanitary works, sanitary works | ||
334 | 334-0 | BUILDING LOCKSMITH. Small iron frame, metal carpentry, ironwork for the building, metal fences (associated manufacture and laying or laying only) | |
334-1 | Building locksmith (installation and repair) | ||
334-2 | Small iron frame for building (associated manufacturing and laying) | ||
334-3 | Carpentry and metal closures (associated manufacture and installation) | ||
334-4 | Ironwork for the building (associated manufacture and installation): balconies, staircases, grilles, etc. | ||
334-5 | Small iron frame for building (laying) | ||
334-6 | Metal fences (installation) | ||
334-7 | Company of supplies and metal reinforcements prepared for reinforced concrete. | ||
335 | 335-0 | BUILDING FUMISTERY, SWEEPING, HEATING INSTALLATION AND HOT WATER PRODUCTION | |
335-1 | Building smokehouse. | ||
335-11 | Stove-stove: manufacture and installation of earthenware, earthenware, earthenware and earth stoves, economic fireplaces. | ||
335-12 | Sweeping: cleaning of fireplaces, ovens and stoves | ||
335-3 | Construction and maintenance of masonry bakery ovens | ||
336 | 336-0 | BUILDING PAINTING, DECORATION | |
336-1 | Painting, building painting: application of coatings, fireproofing company | ||
336-11 | Ravement in paint | ||
336-12 | Industrial Painting: High Height Frame Painting, Pylons, Metal Bridges, etc | ||
336-13 | Gluing wallpapers, drapery papers; stamping | ||
336-14 | Spinning and decoration | ||
336-15 | Painting letters and attributes | ||
336-16 | Gilding in building | ||
336-17 | Liquid wall coverings | ||
336-18 | Advertising on painted buildings and posters | ||
336-2 | Miscellaneous installations in buildings | ||
336-21 | Installation of windows, ice, display cases | ||
336-3 | Painting, plastering, glazing (associated) Company of plastering: plaster partitions, ceiling, plaster ceilings. | ||
337 | 337-0 | ARRANGEMENT OF VARIOUS PREMISES | |
337-3 | Placement of signs, blinds | ||
338 | 338-0 | METAL CONSTRUCTION FOR BUILDING, PUBLIC WORKS AND CIVIL ENGINEERING (manufacture and installation associated or installation only | |
338-1 | Metallic construction for the building (associated manufacturing and installation) | ||
338-2 | Metal construction for public works and civil engineering (associated manufacturing and installation) | ||
338-3 | Metal construction for building (laying only) | ||
338-4 | Metal construction for public works and civil engineering (installation only) | ||
338-5 | Metal houses (manufacture and installation) | ||
339 | 339-0 | INSTALLATION OF ELECTRICITY IN LIVING QUARTERS, SHOPS, OFFICES, INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS AND OTHER BUILDINGS, ETC., INSTALLATION OF LIGHT SIGNS | |
339-01 | Electricity installation associated with locksmith | ||
339-02 | Installation of electricity in living quarters (nda) and installation of illuminated signs | ||
340 | 340-0 | COMPANY OF PUBLIC WORKS AND CIVIL ENGINEERING (including those which carry out ancillary building activities): company of concrete and reinforced concrete for public works and civil engineering | |
340-1 | general company of public works and civil engineering (sai) | ||
340-2 | Company of public works and civil engineering which carry out ancillary building activities | ||
341 | 341-0 | EARTHWORKS, RURAL AND UNDERGROUND WORKS | |
1/341 | Earthworks company associated with leveling. Soil rehabilitation: cleaning of ditches, wells, drainage, draining of marshes and peatlands. Irrigation works. Company of earthworks associated with foundations by compression of the ground. | ||
341-02 | Company of foundation by piles | ||
341-03 | Company of boreholes, boreholes, wells. Summers | ||
341-04 | Company of drilling or deep drilling | ||
341-05 | Sealing and soil consolidation company | ||
341-06 | Company of underground works | ||
342 | 342-0 | MARITIME AND RIVER works (excl. bridges and causeways) | |
1/342 | Specialized pile and sheet pile threshing company | ||
2.342 | Dredging and de-rocking company | ||
342-03 | Wreck Demolition company | ||
342-04 | Company of scuba divers and frogmen | ||
342-05 | Company of works in compressed air | ||
343 | 343-0 | ROAD AND AERODROME works (except bridges and causeways) | |
343-01 | paving company | ||
2.343 | cement or clay concrete cladding company | ||
343-03 | Stabilized earth runway company | ||
343-4 | coating company of materials coated with hydrocarbon binders | ||
343-05 | cylinder company | ||
344 | 344-0 | RAILWAY works (except works executed by the transport companies themselves). | |
345 | 345-0 | URBAN works AND PUBLIC HYGIENE WORKS: distribution networks. | |
345-01 | Construction of structures for water abstraction, supply and distribution | ||
345-02 | Construction of sewers | ||
345-03 | Plants for the purification of drinking water or waste water; company for cleaning pipes by mechanical processes | ||
346 | 346-0 | COMPANY OF ELECTRICITY NETWORKS AND POWER PLANTS (except works executed by the electricity companies themselves) | |
347 | 347-0 | LONG-DISTANCE PIPELINE company (water, gas, hydrocarbons, etc.) | |
348 | 348-0 | INDUSTRIAL FUMISTERY, INDUSTRIAL THERMAL INSTALLATIONS, COLD ROOMS | |
348-1 | Industrial furnaces made of refractory materials: brick, masonry furnaces and furnaces; works for building coke, gas, etc., furnaces made of refractory materials | ||
348-2 | Industrial fumisterie made of refractory materials | ||
348-21 | Construction of chimneys of brick factories, masonry of boiler hearths, structures (nda) in refractory masonry | ||
349 | 349-0 | OUTDOOR SERVICES OF BRIDGES AND ROADS (departmental) AND RELATED SERVICES | |
The weather unemployment scheme is also applicable to open-cast quarries extracting construction materials and which are directly operated by construction companies.
Companies of construction and public works deprived of jobs as a result of bad weather
The employer decides on the work stoppage, verifies the rights of the employees and declares the work stoppage.
He also declares the wages to the paid leave fund and decides the date of resumption of work.
When the employee leaves the company, he gives him a certificate that mentions the days of unemployment-bad weather.
Please note
The employer may also decide to have the hours lost for bad weather. For more information, you can consult the sheet on the device for recovering lost hours.
1Decide to stop the work
Stopping work in case of bad weather is decided by the employer or his representative on the site after consultation with the social and economic committee (CSE) when it exists in the company.
When works are made for an administration, a public authority, a licensed service or subsidized, the representative of the contracting authority may oppose the cessation of work.
2Verify the employee's entitlement to the weather-related unemployment benefit
The employer must verify that the employee meets the conditions for entitlement to the weather compensation.
In particular, he must check that the employee has worked 200 hours during the last 2 months in a company of BTP: titleContent.
In addition, he makes the employee sign a declaration of the number of days already compensated since the 1ster January for unemployment-bad weather. This statement must be sent to the leave fund with the refund request.
3Send a provisional declaration of work stoppage
The employer must send a provisional declaration of work stoppage to the BTP’s paid leave fund at the latest 120 hours (5 days) after the start of the shutdown due to bad weather.
Warning
The employer may be ordered to 2 years of imprisonment and €30,000 a fine for making a false statement.
4Send the final declaration of work stoppage
The employer shall send a declaration of cessation of work and a request for reimbursement of the allowances paid to employees to the paid leave fund. A slip of this declaration shall be drawn up by the BTP's Paid Leave Fund:
Declare a work stoppage and request a bad weather refund
The company shall forward to the Social and Economic Committee (CSE), at its request, the information in the slip concerning the number of hours lost due to inclement weather and their dates.
The slip must reach the paid leave fund in a delay of 1 month from the resumption of work.
Conditions for compensation for work stoppages due to bad weather
5Report salaries to the paid leave fund
Companies must report periodically and at least every 3 months to the BTP's paid leave fund.
This statement shall include, in particular, the statement of wages and salaries used of plate to the contribution.
6Decide on the date of resumption of work and inform employees
The date of resumption of work for the unemployed employee-bad weather is decided by the employer or the representative of the prime contractor on the construction sites.
It is brought to the attention of the employee by a notice posted at the headquarters or office of the company or at the entrance of the site.
Return to Work (D5424-21)
7Give a specific certificate to the employee leaving the company
The employer issues to the employee who leaves the company a certificate specific to unemployment-bad weather.
This document specifies the number of hours and the periods during which the employee received unemployment and bad weather benefits for the calendar year during which he was employed in the company.
Certificate issued by the employer on departure of the employee
When placed on temporary unemployment, the employee remains at the disposal of the employer and must return to work as soon as the site reopens.
Employee availability
During periods of unemployment and bad weather, the employee remains at the disposal of the company that employed him at the time of the work stoppage throughout the period of inactivity of the site.
The employee loses his right to compensation if he refuses to make the works requested by his company, when these works can be made during the bad weather. This is particularly the case if the works can be made in a workshop or office.
The employer who occupies the employee during the bad weather keeps him, during the works, the salary he received before the work stoppage due to the bad weather.
The hours thus paid shall be deducted from the hours of non-work for which compensation is payable.
FYI
Employees who are on leave due to inclement weather may, by their company, be made available to public authorities to make works in the public interest.
Situation of unemployed workers in bad weather (D5424-18 to D5424-20)
Resumption of work
The date of resumption of work is brought to the attention of the employee by a notice posted at the headquarters or office of the company or at the entrance of the site.
An employee who does not return to work as soon as the site reopens ceases to be entitled to the allowance from the date of that reopening.
Return to Work (D5424-21)
Employees concerned
All employees of companies contributing to the unemployment and inclement weather scheme may be compensated regardless of the amount and nature of their remuneration.
To be compensated, employees must work on the site stopped due to bad weather.
Temporary employees made available to a company of the BTP: titleContent shall be compensated by the company of temporary work.
This allowance is payable when the employees of the user company who work on the same site are paid in unemployment-bad weather.
Conditions of compensation
Minimum working hours and waiting period must be respected.
There is also a limit on the number of hours that can be compensated and a limit on the amount of compensation.
Minimum working time
Employees may receive a bad weather unemployment benefit if they have worked at least 200 hours in the 2 months preceding the work stoppage.
Waiting period
The daily allowance for bad weather is due for each hour lost from the 2nde during the same week or during a continuous period of inactivity.
Compensation Limits
The maximum number of hours of work that can be compensated is set at 9 hours per day up to a maximum of 45 hours per week.
The employee must not, since the 1ster January of the year, having been compensated for more than 55 days for unemployment-weather.
The limit of compensation shall be 75% of salary.
Right to compensation for bad weather (L5424-11 and D5424-11)
Compensation (D5424-13 and D2424-14)
The daily allowance for inclement weather is paid to the employee by his company on the regular pay date.
Please note
The daily allowance for bad weather is not subject to social contributions.
It is not due to the employee temporarily arrested for a medical or declared reason unfit at the time of the weather shutdown.
It does not combine with daily accident at work, sickness, social insurance and paid leave allowances.
It does not add up to unemployment benefits.
It is no longer payable in the event that the employee carries out another paid activity during the period of work stoppage.
Workers who have not resumed work as soon as the site is resumed will cease to be entitled to any compensation.
FYI
Workers who engage in other paid employment during the period of work stoppage compensated by unemployment-bad weather must repay the sums received to the employer. The latter then remits them to the relevant paid leave fund.
Payment Terms (L5424-13)
The company is reimbursed by the paid leave funds for the allowances paid to its employees.
The reimbursement rate is:
- 10% for the first 6 hours compensated following the hour of absence (the hour not compensated)
- from the 7e hour, 85% the amount when the payroll exceeds 3 times the amount of theabatement and 90% where the wage bill is not more than three times the amount of that allowance.
FYI
In the event of a work stoppage due to the heat wave, this reimbursement shall be reduced to 80%.
Companies participating in the scheme for compensation for work stoppages due to inclement weather pay contributions calculated on all the salaries taken into account for the calculation of social security contributions, after deduction of a abatement fixed, for the period 1er April 2026 to March 31, 2027, at €96,168.
For the same period, the contribution rate for the weather-related plan is set at:
- 0.68% the amount of wages (after abatement), for companies belonging to the category of structural works and public works
- 0.13% the amount of wages (after abatement) for companies not falling within the category of structural works and public works.
The employer may not dismiss an employee during the period of inactivity of the site on which he is employed.
This prohibition shall not apply in the case of gross misconduct of the person concerned or in the event of a stoppage of works by the prime contractor on public works sites.
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