Allowance for leave not taken due to health crisis extended

Hospital civil servants benefit from a temporary derogation from the rules on leave not taken for reasons of service and in the context of the fight against the Covid-19 outbreak. This measure was supposed to end on January 31, 2022, and was extended until March 6, 2022 by an order issued in Official Journal of 12 February 2022.

Who is involved?

To benefit from this exemption, your requests for leave or RTT during the period from 1 November 2021 to 6 March 2022 inclusive must have been refused due to the health crisis and you must be an official or contract employee in one of the following institutions:

• public health facilities;
• reception and hospital care centers;
• local public institutions for the elderly;
• local public establishments and non-legal establishments run by legal persons governed by public law and providing care for minors or adults with disabilities, difficulties of adaptation or chronic medical conditions.

What needs to be done?

If you are in this situation, you have three choices:

• postpone your holidays;
• claim compensation;
• remit your leave and RTT to your time savings account.

What is the amount of the compensation?

The gross lump sum per day of the compensatory allowance depends on your statutory category:

• €200 per day for category A staff;
• €130 per day for category B staff;
• €110 per day for category C staff.

Compensation is limited to 10 days of leave or RTT not taken.