Time credit and landing jobs

Time credit lets you temporarily interrupt or reduce your career with a benefit: up to 51 months with a care motive (child, ill relative) and up to 36 months for training. From age 55, landing jobs offer a lasting reduction until retirement.

Motives and forms

Time credit with a motive exists for caring for a child up to 8, palliative care, care for a seriously ill family member, a child with a disability, or following recognised training. Take-up can be full-time, half-time or one-fifth, depending on the motive and your seniority (usually 2 years with your employer and a 5-year career). The employment office pays a flat benefit; amounts are on its site.

Landing jobs from 55

Anyone aged 55 with a 25-year career can lastingly reduce their working time in a landing job (half-time or one-fifth) until retirement. The benefit normally starts only from age 60, except for heavy professions, long careers or companies in restructuring, where agreements enable 55. For technical shift profiles with long careers this is often the way to phase out the nights without giving everything up.

Practicalities

You request time credit in writing from your employer (three or six months ahead, depending on company size) and the benefit from the employment office. In companies up to ten employees the employer's agreement is required; above that it is a right within a threshold of simultaneous take-ups (by default 5 percent of staff). You are protected against dismissal from the request. Also mind the effect on holiday rights and pension: care motives are broadly equated, check the details for your situation.