Recruitment of a Contractor in the State Public Service (EPF)
Verified 26 August 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Are you wondering how contract agents are recruited in the state civil service? The cases in which State administrations may recruit contract staff are listed by law. The duration of the contract (fixed or indefinite) depends on the reason for recruitment. We present these conditions.
Accessible jobs
You may be recruited as a permanent contractor when the nature of the duties or the needs of the service warrant it.
This is particularly the case in the following situations:
- Functions requiring specialized or new technical skills
- Absence of an official with the relevant professional expertise or experience to perform the tasks.
The employment may be category A, B, or C.
The job offer is published on the website Choosing the public service. It states that employment is open to contractors.
Duration of contract
You can be recruited by CSD: titleContent or DTA: titleContent.
If you are recruited on a fixed term, the duration of your contract is up to 3 years, renewable up to a maximum of 6 years.
If your contract is renewed after 6 years, it can only be renewed in a DTA.
Renewal of your contract is possible only if no candidate public servant can hold your job.
When you are recruited, if you already have 6 years of public service in the same hierarchical category as the job you are recruited for, you are directly recruited on a permanent contract.
If, before the end of your fixed-term contract, you prove that you have had 6 years of public service in the same hierarchical category, your contract is considered to have been concluded as a fixed-term contract.
Your employer administration sends you a proposal for an amendment to your contract confirming its indefinite duration.
If you refuse to conclude this amendment, you will remain in office until the end of your term of office.
If, when you are recruited, you are bound by CDI to a State administration or public hospital, in functions of the same hierarchical category, your contract may be concluded for an indefinite period.
Counting of services for a transfer to a DTA
The 6-year period is counted taking into account all services performed in the following posts or occupied for the following reasons :
- Jobs in State public institutions
- Lack of government officials to perform the functions sought
- Recruitment justified by the nature of the duties or the needs of the services
- Employment falling within a body whose status does not provide for compulsory initial training prior to establishment
- Employment at incomplete time
- Replacing a temporarily absent agent.
The 6-year period must have been completed in its entirety to the same ministry, public authority or public institution.
Part-time and incomplete services shall be treated as full-time services.
Services performed on a discontinuous basis are taken into account, if the duration of the interruption between 2 contracts does not exceed 4 months.
For the calculation of the duration of interruption between 2 contracts, any period of health emergency is not taken into account.
You can be recruited as a contractor on a permanent job for temporarily replace an agent (official or contract employee) on part-time or leave.
The employment may be category A, B, or C.
The contract shall be concluded for a fixed period. It shall be renewable until the date of return of the staff member to be replaced.
You can also be recruited as a contractor on a temporary vacancy, pending the recruitment of an official.
The employment may be category A, B, or C.
The contract is concluded for a fixed term of up to one year. It may be extended, within two years, if the recruitment procedure has not been completed before its end date.
Job offers are published on the website Choosing the public service.
You can be recruited as a contract contractor on a non-permanent job to deal with a temporary or seasonal increase activity.
The total duration of the contract and any renewals may not exceed 6 months during a period of 12 consecutive months to cope with a seasonal increase in activities.
The total duration of the contract and any renewals may not exceed 12 months during a period of 18 consecutive months to cope with a temporary increase in activities.
The job offer is published on the website Choosing the public service. It states that employment is open to contractors.
Accessible jobs
You can be recruited as a contractor on a permanent job when there is no body of State officials to perform the functions sought.
The employment may be category A, B, or C.
The job offer is published on the website Choosing the public service. It states that employment is open to contractors.
Duration of contract
You can be recruited by CSD: titleContent or DTA: titleContent.
If you are recruited on a fixed term, the duration of your contract is up to 3 years, renewable up to a maximum of 6 years.
If your contract is renewed after 6 years, it can only be renewed in a DTA.
When you are recruited, if you already have 6 years of public service in the same hierarchical category as the job you are recruited for, you are directly recruited on a permanent contract.
If, before the end of your fixed-term contract, you prove that you have had 6 years of public service in the same hierarchical category, your contract is considered to have been concluded as a fixed-term contract.
Your employer administration sends you a proposal for an amendment to your contract confirming its indefinite duration.
If you refuse to conclude this amendment, you will remain in office until the end of your term of office.
If, when you are recruited, you are bound by CDI to a State administration or public hospital, in functions of the same hierarchical category, your contract may be concluded for an indefinite period.
Counting of services for a transfer to a DTA
The 6-year period shall be counted taking into account all services performed in the following jobs or occupied for the following reasons:
- Jobs in State public institutions
- Lack of government officials to perform the functions sought
- Recruitment justified by the nature of the duties or the needs of the services
- Employment falling within a body whose status does not provide for compulsory initial training prior to establishment
- Employment at incomplete time
- Replacing a temporarily absent agent.
The 6-year period must have been completed in its entirety to the same ministry, public authority or public institution.
Part-time and incomplete services shall be treated as full-time services.
Services performed on a discontinuous basis are taken into account, if the duration of the interruption between 2 contracts does not exceed 4 months.
For the calculation of the duration of interruption between 2 contracts, any period of health emergency is not taken into account.
Accessible jobs
You may be recruited as a permanent contract employee when the job is under the control of a body whose status does not provide for compulsory initial training prior to establishment.
The job offer is published on the website Choosing the public service. It states that employment is open to contractors.
Duration of contract
You can be recruited by CSD: titleContent or DTA: titleContent.
If you are recruited on a fixed term, the duration of your contract is up to 3 years, renewable up to a maximum of 6 years.
If your contract is renewed after 6 years, it can only be renewed in a DTA.
Renewal of your contract is possible only if no candidate public servant can hold your job.
When you are recruited, if you already have 6 years of public service in the same hierarchical category as the job you are recruited for, you are directly recruited on a permanent contract.
If, before the end of your fixed-term contract, you prove that you have had 6 years of public service in the same hierarchical category, your contract is considered to have been concluded as a fixed-term contract.
Your employer administration sends you a proposal for an amendment to your contract confirming its indefinite duration.
If you refuse to conclude this amendment, you will remain in office until the end of your term of office.
If, when you are recruited, you are bound by CDI to a State administration or public hospital, in functions of the same hierarchical category, your contract may be concluded for an indefinite period.
Counting of services for a transfer to a DTA
The 6-year period is counted taking into account all services performed in the following posts or occupied for the following reasons :
- Jobs in State public institutions
- Lack of government officials to perform the functions sought
- Recruitment justified by the nature of the duties or the needs of the services
- Employment falling within a body whose status does not provide for compulsory initial training prior to establishment
- Employment at incomplete time
- Replacing a temporarily absent agent.
The 6-year period must have been completed in its entirety to the same ministry, public authority or public institution.
Part-time and incomplete services shall be treated as full-time services.
Services performed on a discontinuous basis are taken into account, if the duration of the interruption between 2 contracts does not exceed 4 months.
For the calculation of the duration of interruption between 2 contracts, any period of health emergency is not taken into account.
Accessible jobs
Incomplete permanent posts with a maximum weekly working time of 24 hours 30 hours may be filled only by contract staff.
The job offer is published on the website Choosing the public service. It states that employment is open to contractors.
Duration of contract
You can be recruited by CSD: titleContent or DTA: titleContent.
If you are recruited on a fixed term, the duration of your contract is up to 3 years, renewable up to a maximum of 6 years.
If your contract is renewed after 6 years, it can only be renewed in a DTA.
Renewal of your contract is possible only if no candidate public servant can hold your job.
When you are recruited, if you already have 6 years of public service in the same hierarchical category as the job you are recruited for, you are directly recruited on a permanent contract.
If, before the end of your fixed-term contract, you prove that you have had 6 years of public service in the same hierarchical category, your contract is considered to have been concluded as a fixed-term contract.
Your employer administration sends you a proposal for an amendment to your contract confirming its indefinite duration.
If you refuse to conclude this amendment, you will remain in office until the end of your term of office.
If, when you are recruited, you are bound by CDI to a State administration or public hospital, in functions of the same hierarchical category, your contract may be concluded for an indefinite period.
Counting of services for a transfer to a DTA
The 6-year period is counted taking into account all services performed in the following posts or occupied for the following reasons :
- Jobs in State public institutions
- Lack of government officials to perform the functions sought
- Recruitment justified by the nature of the duties or the needs of the services
- Employment falling within a body whose status does not provide for compulsory initial training prior to establishment
- Employment at incomplete time
- Replacing a temporarily absent agent.
The 6-year period must have been completed in its entirety to the same ministry, public authority or public institution.
Part-time and incomplete services shall be treated as full-time services.
Services performed on a discontinuous basis are taken into account, if the duration of the interruption between 2 contracts does not exceed 4 months.
For the calculation of the duration of interruption between 2 contracts, any period of health emergency is not taken into account.
You can be recruited by project contract to perform an identified project or operation.
The project contract shall be concluded for a minimum duration of one year and one maximum duration of 6 years.
It may be renewed to complete the project or operation, up to a total duration of 6 years.
Where the contract is concluded for a period of less than 6 years and the planned project or operation is not completed by the end of the contract, the contract may be renewed up to a maximum of 6 years.
The project contract shall end with the completion of the object for which it was concluded, after a period of advance notice.
It may, however, be terminated by decision of the employer's administration after a minimum period of one year if the project or operation for which it was concluded cannot be carried out.
If you have a disability, you can, under certain conditions, be recruited on a permanent job such as contract on a fixed-term basis, then tenure.
The employment may be category A, B, or C.
You can be recruited as a contractor on a permanent job under the Career pathways in the public service (Pact) if you are in one of the following 2 situations:
- You have between 16 and 28 years, you are without a diploma or professional qualification or have a qualification below the baccalaureate
- You have at least 45 years, are long-term unemployed and touch it RSA: titleContent or thespecific solidarity allowance (SSA) or Disabled Adult Allowance (DAA).
The Pact provides for access to category C job, i.e. a job usually open to persons holding a BEP, CAP or college certificate.
The purpose of the Pact is to enable you to acquire, by means of training in alternation with your professional activity, a qualification related to your job or the diploma required to access the body to which your job belongs.
The duration of your contract cannot be less than 12 months, or over 2 years.
Your contract may be renewed for a maximum of one year if you fail the evaluation tests of your training and do not obtain the qualification, title or diploma provided for in your contract.
At the end of your contract, you are eligible to become a tenure holder and become a public servant.
An institution of higher education and research may recruit a university professor or a lecturer such as associated personnel or guest staff.
Associated personnel
A full-time senior lecturer or associate professor shall be recruited from CSD: titleContent from 6 months to 3 years maximum.
The CDD is renewable for a maximum of 3 years.
A half-time associate conference manager is recruited on a 3-year renewable 3-year term.
A part-time associate professor is recruited on CDD from 3 to 9 years.
The CSD is renewable up to a maximum of 9 years.
FYI
The contract of a lecturer or associate professor who has refugee status may be renewed without limitation.
Guest Staff
Full-time or part-time visiting teachers are recruited on terms of study from 1 week to 1 year.
The following posts may be filled by contract staff:
- Government management jobs
- Jobs in State public institutions
- University lecturer-hospital practitioner and university lecturer-hospital practitioner
- Jobs as education assistant, boarding school master and day school supervisor in colleges and high schools.
The job offer is published on the website Choosing the public service. It states that employment is open to contractors.
Senior posts for which the appointment is left to the Government's decision may also be filled by contract staff. The list of these jobs is established by decree.
These include the posts of director of central administration, prefect, rector of academy, etc.
General conditions for access to public posts
Recruitment by contract: general provisions
Contract recruitment possibilities: Articles L332-1 to L332-7, L332-21, L332-22, L332-28
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