Family Solidarity Leave in the Public Service

You are entitled to family solidarity leave if the following 2 conditions are met:

• You're in activity or secondment
• One of your loved ones has a life-threatening condition or is in the advanced or terminal phase of a serious and incurable condition, whatever the cause.

Family solidarity leave allows you to reduce or stop your professional activity to accompany this loved one at the end of life.

The person you wish to accompany must be a ascendant, one descendant, a brother, sister or person who shares your home or has designated you as his or her trusted person.

The person being accompanied may live in their own home, in your home, in the home of a third party, or by EhpadEhpad : Accommodation for dependent elderly persons.

Family solidarity leave may consist, at your choice, of a period of complete cessation of activity or a period of part-time work.

If you completely cease your activity, you can choose to take your leave of absence as follows:

• In the form of a continuous period of up to 3 months, renewable once
• Or split-up, as periods of at least 7 consecutive days, whose cumulative duration cannot be more than 6 months.

If you choose to reduce your work activity, you can take your leave as part-time at 50%, 60%, 70% or 80% for a maximum period of 3 months, renewable 1 time.

Family solidarity leave is unpaid.

But you can receive, during part of your leave, a daily support allowance for a person at the end of life.

The amount of the allowance varies depending on whether you are completely out of business or working part-time.

The allowance is paid to you by your employer's administration for each day of leave, whether it is workable or not.

If you take your leave in installments and the person with you dies before the end of the 7-day period, the allowance is paid for the days between the date of receipt of your request for leave and the day after death.

If the person accompanied is hospitalized after payment of the allowance has begun, the allowance continues to be paid during the days of hospitalization.

You have to make a written request and accompanied by a certificate from the doctor of the sick person.

Your application must include following information :

• Surname, first name and social security number of the person accompanied and contact details of his social security fund
• Desired number of daily allocations
• If applicable, the names of the other beneficiaries of the accompanying allowance and the distribution of the daily allowances among you. The total number of daily allowances of the various beneficiaries may not exceed the maximum number of days allowed (21 days in the case of interruption of activity, 42 days in the case of part-time work).

Your employer administration cannot refuse you leave.

As regards the payment of daily allowances, your employer's administration shall inform, within 48 hours upon receipt of your application, the social security fund to which the person accompanied is subject.

In the absence of response within 7 days from the social security fund, the allowance shall be deemed to have been granted.

Payment of daily allowances shall begin at the end of the month in which the accompanying person's social security fund has given its consent.

Career

Family solidarity leave is considered to be a period of actual service.

It is therefore taken into account for theadvancement step and grade and for the internal promotion.

It does not reduce your entitlement to other leave, including:

• Annual leave
• Leave of absence disease, of long illness or long life
• Leave of absence motherhood or of adoption
• Paternity and childcare leave
• 3-day leave for birth or adoption
• Vocational training leave
• Leave for validation of experience
• Skills Check Leave
• Caregiver leave
• Representation leave

You retain your acquired rights before the start of your family solidarity leave, which you were unable to exercise because of your leave. This includes the right to annual assessment and annual interview and the right to training.

Duration of the course

If you are a probationary official, your probationary period is extended by the same number of days of family solidarity leave used.

Family solidarity leave is fully taken into account in the calculation of the services used for your classification at tenure.

RTT

Family solidarity leave is not taken into account for the calculation of your RTT.

Home transportation costs - Work

Support for commuting costs is suspended during the period of family solidarity leave.

However, care shall continue until the end of the month in which the leave commences.

Where service is resumed following leave in a subsequent month, the payment shall be made for that entire month.

Retirement

You can request that family solidarity leave be taken into account for retirement.

It is then taken into account for the calculation of your number of pension insurance quarters and for the calculation of your number of liquidatable quarters when calculating the amount of your pension.

You must submit your request to your employer authority within 6 months of the end of your leave.

You must submit your request by registered post with acknowledgement of receipt or by hand against discharge.

In order for your family solidarity leave to be taken into account for your retirement, you must pay a special contribution equal to the contribution that would have been levied if you had worked and not taken the leave.

This special contribution shall be levied each month up to 5% of your net index processing, except for the last levy made for balance. The 1^er withdrawal is made on your net index treatment of 1^er the full month after you resume business.

If you are removed from the executive before you have been able to pay this special contribution in full, the length of your family solidarity leave is fully taken into account for your retirement. The remaining amounts due are deducted from your pension amount, up to a limit of 5^e per month.

You can pay the full amount of the special contribution due or remaining at any time.

Family solidarity leave ends at end of maximum allowed time (3 or 6 months) or within 3 days of death the person accompanied.

You can also request the end of your leave before the date originally scheduled. In this case, if you are a hospital worker, you must respect a 3-minute notice free days.

At the end of the break, you get back to your job.