Appointment of the Public Service Trainee: what reinstatement?

Verified 21 March 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

In principle, during your probationary year, you are paid on the basis of the 1er grade step in which you are recruited.

However, if you engaged in one or more professional activities before being appointed probationary official for the firstre time, these periods of activity may be partially taken into account. You can start your career and be paid on a more favorable step than the 1er step.

The partially covered activities may have been carried out in the public sector (as a contractor) or in the private sector.

The conditions for partial recognition of your previous periods of professional activity are not the same for all corps and frameworks of employment of the three public services.

They shall be fixed by the special status the corps or framework of employment in which you are appointed as a probationary official or by provisions common to several corps or frameworks of employment.

If you have been employed in the private sector and then contracted in the public service (or vice versa), only the most favorable activity is taken into account.

Example :

If you are appointed a probationary officer for the 1re Once, as a territorial engineer, and if you have previously carried out one or more professional activities in the private sector, in functions and fields of activity that are similar to those corresponding to the employment framework of territorial engineers, the duration of these activities is taken into account for half, within the limit of 7 years.

A return of seniority of 7 years makes it possible to be classified at 4e grade step of engineer.

To benefit from the partial recovery of your previous periods of activity, you must provide the necessary supporting documents to your Human Resources Directorate (HRD). For example, copies of your employment contracts and certificates of employment.

The HRD compiles a summary of your professional experience based on these documents.

This condition is mentioned and attached to your appointment order as an intern.

Your HRD then determines your grade step based on the grade progression times.

If you are re-appointed as a trainee in the course of your career as a result of an internal competition or promotion, the particular statutes of the corps or executives of jobs contain provisions which guarantee, at the very least, that your previous index salary will be maintained. The special status of the corps or framework of employment in which you are appointed as a probationary official may provide for more favorable provisions.

Example :

If you are appointed a Territorial Engineer Trainee and you previously belonged to a Category B job cadre, you are ranked at a step with the index closest to the one that allows you to earn 60 gross index points. If 2 successive steps meet this condition, you are assigned to the step with the lowest index.