Hospital Public Service (HPF) Career Transition Leave

Verified 16 April 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

Your job in the hospital public service is being terminated? As part of the support package, you can take a career transition leave (CTP) to work in a new occupation. You can also benefit from it if you are a C-class agent and do not have the bachelor's degree or you are disabled or you are particularly at risk of professional wear and tear. We'll lay out the rules for you.

The purpose of the work transition leave is to allow you to train for a new occupation:

  • In the public service
  • Or in the private sector

Job Deleted or Threatened

You can take the work transition leave if you are in one of those situations :

  • You're a public servant and your job is cut
  • You are under contract for an indefinite period (CDI) and your employment may be terminated.

Special case

You can also benefit from career transition leave if you are a public servant or a contract worker and you are in any of the following :

  • You belong to a body or hold a category C job and you do not have a bachelor's degree
  • You have a disability and you are entitled to the obligation to employ
  • It is established, after consulting the occupational doctor, that you are particularly exposed, in view of your individual professional situation, to a risk of professional wear and tear.

You can take a training course or a training path.

Training may be:

  • Let's say one certifying training of a duration of not less than 120 hours
  • Or training to assist in the creation or resumption of a company of a duration equal to or greater than 70 hours.

Your administration supports:

  • Training costs, possibly up to a maximum
  • And, where applicable, the costs incurred by your travel.

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Job Deleted or Threatened

The application for work transition leave must be made at least 60 days prior to the date the training begins.

Your application must specify:

  • The nature of training
  • The duration of the training
  • The name of the training organization
  • The professional goal you're aiming for.

Your administration informs you of its answer, in writing, within 30 days of receipt of your request for leave.

In the event of a refusal, reasons must be given for the refusal.

If there is no response from the administration within 30 days upon receipt of your request for leave, your request is considered to be refused.

Your request for leave may be deferred in the interest of the service.

Other case

You are a public servant or a contractor and you are in one of the following situations:

  • You belong to a body or hold a category C job and you do not have a bachelor's degree
  • You have a disability and you are entitled to the obligation to employ
  • It is established, after consulting the occupational doctor, that you are particularly exposed, in view of your individual professional situation, to a risk of professional wear and tear

The application for work transition leave must be made at least 3 months before the training starts.

Your application must specify:

  • The nature of training
  • The duration of the training
  • The name of the training organization
  • The professional goal you're aiming for.

Your administration informs you of its answer, in writing, in 2 months upon receipt of your request for leave.

In the event of a refusal, reasons must be given for the refusal.

If there is no response from the administration within 2 months upon receipt of your request for leave, your request is considered to be refused.

Your request for leave may be deferred in the interest of the service.

Vocational transition leave may be split in:

  • Month
  • Weeks
  • Or days.

If your professional project requires one or more training courses including total duration is more than 12 months, you can request that your work transition leave be prolonged by a vocational leave. In this case, the cumulative duration of your career transition and vocational training leave must not exceed 3 years.

You must forward, according to a schedule agreed between you and your administration, the certificates drawn up by the training organization, justifying your attendance.

If you stop taking your training without legitimate reason, you lose the benefit of your leave.

During your leave, you continue to receive:

Please note

For the calculation of 80% of your compensation plan, the following elements of remuneration shall not be taken into account :

  • Reimbursement of expenses
  • Allowances linked to the organization of work and actual overtime (overtime, stand-by allowances, etc.)
  • Exceptional or occasional payments related to the assessment of how to serve
  • Exceptional or occasional payments motivated by a single operative event (for example, an exceptional premium paid to staff particularly mobilized to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak)
  • Overseas assignment markups and indexing (unless you continue your overseas training)
  • Allowances related to ancillary activity.

You stay in activity position while you're off.

The period of work transition leave is treated as effective services in your body.

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