If you are enrolled in a program at IMEP • Paris College of Music, you may be eligible for France Travail’s program for crediting training hours.

In short, this means that certain hours can be counted toward the 507 hours required to qualify for intermittent entertainment worker status.

Specifically, when you enroll in the IMEP Professional Track as part of a continuing professional development program, you can either:

• Receive compensation during training through France Travail (ARE or AREF allowance). In this case, the the hours of professional training at IMEP do not count toward your 507 hours of intermittent work.

• Either you decide to decline the compensation, in which case your training hours at IMEP can be counted (up to a maximum of 338 hours) toward your total hours of intermittent work.

Please note: You must have your project approved by France Travail before starting the training program.

If you’re a student at IMEP and you’re earning some money but not enough to qualify as a part-time worker, the program that counts training hours toward your total hours can help you make up the missing hours.

In practice, while attending the IMEP training program, you continue your regular coursework as usual; your hours are recorded and counted toward your total hours of intermittent work.

Example :

Case 1: A musician receives 25 performance fees per year, equivalent to 300 hours: no intermittent status (the 507-hour threshold has not been reached).

Case 2: A musician earns 25 performance fees per year—equivalent to 300 hours—AND is a second-year student in the Professional Program at IMEP • Paris College of Music, which involves 270 hours of instruction per year. Therefore, the total number of hours (performance fees plus training hours) amounts to 570 hours: intermittent worker status is possible.

* 1 cachet = 12 hours