Sick leave of the official
Verified 01 September 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
You are civil servantill or injured in an unoccupational accident and unable to work? You can be placed on sick leave by your employer administration on presentation of a work stoppage. We present the rules applicable to sick leave, according to your public service of origin (State - FPE, territorial - FPT, hospital - FPH).
EPF
If you are in activity or secondment, you may be placed on sick leave (previously called cordinary sick leave - CMO(b) where the disease or accident occurred non-working time makes it impossible for you to carry out your duties.
To do this, you must send a notice of work stoppage to your employer's administration.
Work stoppage
In order to be placed on sick leave, you must send a notice of work stoppage to your employer's administration within 48 hours of establishment by a doctor, dental surgeon or midwife.
This work stoppage notice indicates the probable duration of your incapacity for work.
You must pass on to your employer administration the flaps 2 and 3 of the notice of work stoppage.
You're keeping pane number 1. This component should be presented to the approved medical practitioner at the time of counter-visit or other medical examination.
In case of renewing your work stoppage, you must forward your extension to your administration within the same 48-hour period after the establishment of the work stoppage.
Failure to meet the 48-hour deadline
In the event of non-compliance with the 48-hour deadline, your administration will inform you by post of the delay noted.
It also informs you that you are exposed to a reduction of your remuneration in case of new late shipment within 24 months after this 1er late consignment. If a work stoppage is sent again late, the remuneration due between the date of establishment of the new work stoppage and the date of its transmission shall be reduced by half.
The time limit 48-hour dispatch time can be outdated in case of hospitalization.
And if you are unable to meet the 48-hour deadline, excluding hospitalization, you have 8 days following the establishment of the work stoppage to justify this impossibility.
Remuneration elements affected by the halving
In case of late re-dispatch of a work stoppage, the reduction in your remuneration by half concerns your index treatment gross and your bonuses and allowances.
However, the following compensation elements continue to be paid in its entirety :
- Residence allowance
- Family Treatment Supplement (FTS)
- Partial payment of the price of the public transport ticket that you use for travel between home and work
- Benefits in kind
- Reimbursement of expenses
- Premiums and allowances related to change of residence, first assignment, geographical mobility and restructuring
- Premiums and allowances linked to the organization of work
- Teaching or jury allowances and other allowances not directly related to employment
- Part or all of premiums and allowances modulated according to performance and manner of service
- Exceptional or occasional payments of premiums and allowances corresponding to a single chargeable event.
The duration of sick leave may beup to one year for a period of 12 consecutive months.
You are entitled to paid sick leave at full treatment for 3 months, then half treatment for 9 months.
Full or half-treatment entitlements shall be subtracted, for each day of work stoppage, according to the full or half-treatment days already granted within the previous 12 months.
Each work stoppage shall be subject to waiting day unpaid.
Example :
If you have been off for 3 months on 1er February to April 30, 2024 inclusive (90 calendar days), you have been paid full pay for 89 days (90 days - 1 day of waiting) if you had not already received 3 months of full pay leave since February 2, 2023.
The day of absence shall not be paid but shall be counted as a day of full-salary leave.
If you had already received 60 days of paid sick leave at full pay since February 2, 2023, you only received 30 days at full pay.
So you were paid on the 1er February to March 1, 2024 at full salary (30 calendar days). However, on 1er day was withheld 1/30e (waiting day on 1er February) but it was counted as a full day of treatment.
And from March 2, you were paid half salary until the end of your stop.
However, the waiting day shall not apply on 2e work stoppage if you have not returned to work more than 48 hours between 2 sick days granted for the same condition.
This is the case:
- When the new work stoppage extends the previous stop and the prescribing physician has ticked the extension box
- Or when you try to resume your duties and find yourself forced to stop again 1 or 2 days later
- Or when you have been unable to see your doctor on a Saturday, Sunday or holiday next to the weekend for reasons beyond your control.
The new judgment is considered to be a relapse and an extension since the cause of the initial judgment has not disappeared.
The 48-hour period, counted in calendar days, starts running from 1er the day following the last day of your initial work stoppage.
When you move to half-pay, some elements of compensation continue to be paid in full.
Compensation Elements | Conditions for payment |
|---|---|
Index treatment | 50% |
Residence allowance (IR) | 100% |
Family Treatment Supplement (FTS) | 100% |
New Index Enhancement (NBI) | 50% |
Premiums and allowances | 50% |
Time spent on sick leave is ineffective on your rights to advancement (step and grade) and internal promotion.
It also has no effect on your retirement.
Time spent on sick leave does not reduce your entitlement to other leave, including:
- Annual leave
- Leave of absence motherhood oradoption
- 3-day leave for birth or adoption
- Paternity and childcare leave
- Vocational training leave
- Family Solidarity Leave
- Caregiver leave
- Leave for validation of experience
- Skills Check Leave
- Leave for union training
- Representation leave of an association
- Citizenship leave.
Reminder
If you are unable to take vacation leave due to sick leave, some of your vacation leave may be postponed.
Periods of sick leave do not entitle you to RTT.
If you are a probationary official, sick leave, beyond a certain period, extends the duration of your internship.
You can apply for training or a skills check or for an activity that will help you retrain or retrain for a new job.
Your request shall be subject to the favorable opinion of the medical advice.
Your employer administration may submit you at any time to a inspection visit by a licensed physician.
You must undergo a check-up examination by an approved doctor, at least once after 6 consecutive months sick leave.
An approved doctor is a general practitioner or specialist on a list drawn up in each department by the prefect on a proposal from the Regional Health Agency, after consulting the Departmental Council of the Medical Association. One of the roles of a licensed medical practitioner is to conduct counter-visits and expert examinations.
In case of refusal on your part to submit to these examinations, your rremuneration no longer paid.
If you or your employer authority disagrees with the medical officer's opinion, you may enter the medical advice.
Resumption of duties or incapacity
At the end of your sick leave, your situation differs depending on whether or not you are fit to resume your previous duties.
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Suitable for resuming your previous duties
You're back in office.
Your workstation can be adapted to your health if necessary.
If you have been on sick leave for 12 consecutive months, you may resume your work only after a favorable opinion has been given by the medical council.
During the entire procedure before the medical council, you are provisionally placed on standby from office for health reasons.
During this period of statutory availability, you receive an allowance equal to the amount of the index salary and, possibly, bonuses and allowances that you received at the end of your sick leave.
This allowance is paid to you until the date of the decision to resume service.
When the medical council's instruction of your file requires the expertise of a licensed medical practitioner, you must undergo this medical examination. In the event of your refusal, the compensation shall cease to be paid to you.
In case of refusal to join the workstation(s) proposed to you if there is no valid reason relating to your state of health, you may be dismissed after obtaining the opinion of the Joint Administrative Commission.
Unfit to resume your previous duties
You're incumbent
You can benefit from a period of preparation for reclassification or be directly reclassified to a job that is compatible with your health.
If your health does not allow you to return to work and if you are not entitled to a CLM, you can be placed in office availability if the medical council deems that your health will develop favorably.
If you are found permanently unfit in the exercise of any employment, you may be disability pension no matter your age and no matter how many quarters of pension insurance you have.
If you have been on sick leave for 12 consecutive monthsHowever, you may not resume your work unless the medical council has given a favorable opinion.
During the entire procedure before the medical council, you are provisionally placed on compulsory medical leave.
During this period of provisional automatic availability, you receive an allowance equal to the amount of the index salary and, possibly, bonuses and allowances that you received at the end of your sick leave.
This allowance is paid to you until the date of the decision to reclassify, lay off or retire.
When the medical council's instruction of your file requires the expertise of a licensed medical practitioner, you must undergo this medical examination. In the event of your refusal, the compensation shall cease to be paid to you.
In case of refusal of proposed work station(s) if there is no valid reason relating to your state of health, you may be dismissed after obtaining the opinion of the Joint Administrative Commission.
You're an intern
If your health does not allow you to return to work and you are not entitled to a CLM, you can be placed in unpaid leave during a period dOne year maximum.
Such unpaid leave may be renewed 2 times.
Leave without pay and its renewal shall be granted after consulting the medical council if you are otherwise a permanent official.
If you are found permanently unfit for employment, at the end of your sick leave or unpaid leave, you are licensee.
If you were seconded for an internship and hold another grade, your secondment for traineeship is terminated and you are made available to your home administration.
In your home administration, your situation is examined in accordance with the rules applicable to the permanent official.
Long-term sick leave (LSW)
If you have a medical condition that may lead to long-term sick leave (LSW), you can request to be placed in CLM in progress or at the end of your sick leave entitlements.
FPT
If you are in activity or secondment, you may be placed on sick leave (previously called cordinary sick leave - CMO) where illness or accident outside working time makes it impossible for you to carry out your duties.
To do this, you must send a notice of work stoppage to your employer's administration.
Work stoppage
In order to be placed on sick leave, you must send a notice of work stoppage to your employer's administration within 48 hours of establishment by a doctor, dental surgeon or midwife.
This work stoppage notice indicates the probable duration of your incapacity for work.
You must pass on to your employer administration the flaps 2 and 3 of the work stoppage.
You're keeping pane number 1. This component should be presented to the approved medical practitioner at the time of counter-visit or other medical examination.
If your work stoppage is renewed, you must forward your extension to your administration within the same 48-hour period after the establishment of the work stoppage.
Failure to meet the 48-hour deadline
In the event of failure to comply with the 48-hour time limit, your administration informs you by post of the delay.
It also informs you that you are exposed to a reduction of your remuneration in case of new late shipment within 24 months after this 1er late consignment.
If a work stoppage is sent again late, the remuneration due between the date on which the new work stoppage was established and the date on which it was transmitted shall be reduced by half.
The 48-hour shipping time may be exceeded in case of hospitalization.
And if you are unable to meet the 48-hour deadline, excluding hospitalization, you have 8 days following the establishment of the work stoppage to justify this impossibility.
Remuneration elements affected by the halving
If a work stoppage is sent late again, the reduction in half of your remuneration concerns your index treatment gross and your bonuses and allowances.
However, the following compensation items continue to be paid to you in full:
- Residence allowance
- Family Treatment Supplement (FTS)
- Partial payment of the price of public transport passes used for travel between home and work
- Benefits in kind
- Reimbursement of expenses
- Premiums and allowances related to change of residence, first assignment, geographical mobility and restructuring
- Premiums and allowances linked to the organization of work
- Teaching or jury allowances and other allowances not directly related to employment
- Part or all of premiums and allowances modulated according to performance and manner of service
- Exceptional or occasional payments of premiums and allowances corresponding to a single chargeable event.
The duration of sick leave may beup to one year for a period of 12 consecutive months.
You are entitled to paid sick leave at full treatment for 3 months, then half treatment for 9 months.
Full or half-treatment entitlements shall be subtracted, for each day of work stoppage, according to the full or half-treatment days already granted within the previous 12 months.
Each work stoppage shall be subject to waiting day unpaid.
Example :
If you have been off for 3 months on 1er February to April 30, 2024 inclusive (90 calendar days), you have been paid full pay for 89 days (90 days - 1 day of waiting) if you had not already received 3 months of full pay leave since February 2, 2023.
The day of absence shall not be paid but shall be counted as a day of full-salary leave.
If you had already received 60 days of paid sick leave at full pay since February 2, 2023, you only received 30 days at full pay.
So you were paid on the 1er February to March 1, 2024 at full salary (30 calendar days). However, on 1er day was withheld 1/30e (waiting day on 1er February) but it was counted as a full day of treatment.
And from March 2, you were paid half salary until the end of your stop.
However the waiting day shall not apply on 2e work stoppage if you have not resumed work more than 48 hours between 2 holidays of sickness granted for the same condition.
This is the case when the new work stoppage extends the previous stoppage and the prescribing physician has ticked the extension box.
This can happen when you try to resume your duties and you find yourself obliged to stop again 1 or 2 days later.
This can also happen if you have not been able to see your doctor on a Saturday, Sunday or a holiday next to the weekend for reasons beyond your control.
The new judgment is considered to be a relapse and an extension since the cause of the initial judgment has not disappeared.
The 48-hour period, counted in calendar days, starts running from 1er the day following the last day of your initial work stoppage.
When you move to half-pay, some elements of compensation continue to be paid in full.
Compensation Elements | Conditions for payment |
|---|---|
Index treatment | 50% |
Residence allowance (IR) | 100% |
Family Treatment Supplement (FTS) | 100% |
New Index Enhancement (NBI) | 50% |
Premiums and allowances | The conditions for suspending or maintaining bonuses and allowances are determined by the decision of your employer community |
Time spent on sick leave is ineffective on your rights to advancement (step and grade) and internal promotion.
It also has no effect on your retirement.
Time spent on sick leave does not reduce your entitlement to other leave, including:
- Annual leave
- Leave of absence motherhood oradoption
- 3-day leave for birth or adoption
- Paternity and childcare leave
- Vocational training leave
- Family Solidarity Leave
- Caregiver leave
- Leave for validation of experience
- Skills Check Leave
- Leave for union training
- Representation leave of an association
- Citizenship leave.
Reminder
If you are unable to take vacation leave due to sick leave, some of your vacation leave may be postponed.
Periods of sick leave do not entitle you to RTT.
If you are a probationary public servant, sick leave, beyond a certain period, extends the duration of your internship.
You can apply for training or a skills check or for an activity that will help you retrain or retrain for a new job.
Your request is subject to the favorable opinion of the medical council.
Your employer administration may submit you at any time to a inspection visit by a licensed physician.
You must undergo a check-up examination by an approved doctor, at least once after 6 consecutive months of sick leave.
An approved doctor is a general practitioner or specialist on a list drawn up in each department by the prefect on a proposal from the Regional Health Agency, after consulting the Departmental Council of the Medical Association. One of the roles of a licensed medical practitioner is to conduct counter-visits and expert examinations.
You are informed of this inspection visit by registered post with acknowledgement of receipt.
In case of refusal on your part to submit to these examinations, your remuneration is no longer paid.
If you or your employer authority disagrees with the medical officer's opinion, you may enter the medical advice.
Resumption of duties or incapacity
At the end of your sick leave, your situation differs depending on whether or not you are fit to resume your previous duties.
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Suitable for resuming your previous duties
You're back in office.
Your workstation can be adapted to your health if necessary.
If you have been on sick leave for 12 consecutive monthsHowever, you may not resume your work unless the medical council has given a favorable opinion. Payment of half-salary shall be maintained, where applicable, until the date of the decision to resume service, to reclassify, to lay off or to retire.
Unfit to resume your previous duties
You're incumbent
If you have been on sick leave for 12 consecutive months, your situation is subject to the opinion of the medical council.
You can benefit from a period of preparation for reclassification or be directly reclassified to a job that is compatible with your health.
If your health does not allow you to return to work and if you are not entitled to a CLM, you can be placed in office availability if the medical council deems that your health will develop favorably.
If you are found permanently unfit in the exercise of any employment, you may be disability pension no matter your age and no matter how many quarters of pension insurance you have.
You continue to receive your half-treatment until the date of the decision of reclassification, lay-off or admission to retirement.
You're an intern
If your health does not allow you to return to work and you are not entitled to a CLM, you can be placed in unpaid leave for a period of up to one year, renewable once.
Your leave may be renewed a 2e time for a maximum of one year if the medical council deems that your health may develop favorably during this additional period of one year.
Placing on leave without pay and renewal shall be pronounced after opinion of the medical council.
If you are found permanently unfit for employment, at the end of your sick leave or unpaid leave, you are licensee.
If you were seconded for an internship and hold another grade, your secondment for traineeship is terminated and you are made available to your home administration.
In your home administration, your situation is examined in accordance with the rules applicable to the permanent official.
Long-term sick leave (LSW)
If you have a medical condition that may lead to long-term sick leave (LSW), you can request to be placed in CLM in progress or at the end of your sick leave entitlements.
FPH
If you are in activity or secondment, you may be placed on sick leave (previously called cordinary sick leave - CMO) where illness or accident outside working time makes it impossible for you to carry out your duties.
To do this, you must send a notice of work stoppage to your employer's administration.
Work stoppage
In order to be placed on sick leave, you must send a notice of work stoppage to your employer's administration within 48 hours of establishment by a doctor, dental surgeon or midwife.
This work stoppage notice indicates the probable duration of your incapacity for work.
You must pass on to your employer administration the flaps 2 and 3 of the work stoppage.
You're keeping pane number 1. This component should be presented to the approved medical practitioner at the time of counter-visit or other medical examination.
If your work stoppage is renewed, you must forward your extension to your administration within the same 48-hour period after the establishment of the work stoppage.
Failure to meet the 48-hour deadline
In the event of failure to comply with the 48-hour time limit, your administration informs you by post of the delay.
It also informs you that you are exposed to a reduction of your remuneration in case of new late shipment within 24 months after this 1er late consignment.
If a work stoppage is sent again late, the remuneration due between the date on which the new work stoppage was established and the date on which it was transmitted shall be reduced by half.
The 48-hour shipping time may be exceeded in case of hospitalization.
And if you are unable to meet the 48-hour deadline, excluding hospitalization, you have 8 days following the establishment of the work stoppage to justify this impossibility.
Remuneration elements affected by the halving
If a work stoppage is sent late again, the reduction in half of your remuneration concerns your index treatment gross and your bonuses and allowances.
However, the following compensation items continue to be paid to you in full:
- Residence allowance
- Family Treatment Supplement (FTS)
- Partial payment of the price of public transport passes used for travel between home and work
- Benefits in kind
- Reimbursement of expenses
- Premiums and allowances related to change of residence, first assignment, geographical mobility and restructuring
- Premiums and allowances linked to the organization of work
- Teaching or jury allowances and other allowances not directly related to employment
- Part or all of premiums and allowances modulated according to performance and manner of service
- Exceptional or occasional payments of premiums and allowances corresponding to a single chargeable event.
The duration of sick leave may beup to one year for a period of 12 consecutive months.
You are entitled to paid sick leave at full treatment for 3 months, then half treatment for 9 months.
Full or half-treatment entitlements shall be counted, for each day of work stoppage, according to the full or half-treatment days already granted during the preceding 12 months.
Each work stoppage shall be subject to waiting day unpaid.
Example :
If you have been off for 3 months on 1er February to April 30, 2024 inclusive (90 calendar days), you have been paid full pay for 89 days (90 days - 1 day of waiting) if you had not already received 3 months of full pay leave since February 2, 2023.
The day of absence shall not be paid but shall be counted as a day of full-salary leave.
If you had already received 60 days of paid sick leave at full pay, you only received 30 days at full pay.
So you were paid on the 1er February to March 1, 2024 at full salary (30 calendar days). However, on 1er day was withheld 1/30e (waiting day on 1er February) but it was counted as a full day of treatment.
And from March 2, you were paid half salary until the end of your stop.
However, the waiting day shall not apply on 2e work stoppage if you have not resumed work more than 48 hours between 2 holidays of sickness granted for the same condition.
This is the case when the new work stoppage extends the previous stoppage and the prescribing physician has ticked the extension box.
This can happen when you try to resume your duties and you find yourself obliged to stop again 1 or 2 days later.
This can also happen if you have not been able to see your doctor on a Saturday, Sunday or a holiday next to the weekend for reasons beyond your control.
The new judgment is considered to be a relapse and an extension since the cause of the initial judgment has not disappeared.
The 48-hour period, counted in calendar days, starts running from 1er the day following the last day of your initial work stoppage.
When you move to half-pay, some elements of compensation continue to be paid in full.
Compensation Elements | Conditions for payment |
|---|---|
Index treatment | 50% |
Residence allowance (IR) | 100% |
Family Treatment Supplement (FTS) | 100% |
New Index Enhancement (NBI) | 50% |
Premiums and allowances | Special hardship allowance (ISS) reduced by 50% |
Time spent on sick leave is ineffective on your rights to advancement (step and grade) and internal promotion.
It also has no effect on your retirement.
Time spent on sick leave does not reduce your entitlement to other leave, including:
- Annual leave
- Leave of absence motherhood oradoption
- 3-day leave for birth or adoption
- Paternity and childcare leave
- Vocational training leave
- Family Solidarity Leave
- Caregiver leave
- Leave for validation of experience
- Skills Check Leave
- Leave for union training
- Representation leave of an association
- Citizenship leave.
Reminder
If you are unable to take vacation leave due to sick leave, some of your vacation leave may be postponed.
Periods of sick leave do not entitle you to RTT.
If you are a probationary public servant, sick leave, beyond a certain period, extends the duration of your internship.
You can apply for training or a skills check or for an activity that will help you retrain or retrain for a new job.
Your request is subject to the favorable opinion of the medical council.
Your employer administration may at any time submit you to a check-up by a registered doctor.
You must undergo a check-up examination by at least one accredited doctor Once after 6 consecutive months sick leave.
An approved doctor is a general practitioner or specialist on a list drawn up in each department by the prefect on a proposal from the Regional Health Agency, after consulting the Departmental Council of the Medical Association. One of the roles of a licensed medical practitioner is to conduct counter-visits and expert examinations.
If you refuse to take these exams, your remuneration will no longer be paid.
If you or your employer authority disagrees with the medical officer's opinion, you may enter the medical advice.
Resumption of duties or incapacity
At the end of your sick leave, your situation differs depending on whether or not you are fit to resume your previous duties.
Répondez aux questions successives et les réponses s’afficheront automatiquement
Suitable for resuming your previous duties
You're back in office.
Your workstation can be adapted to your health if necessary.
If you have been on sick leave for 12 consecutive months, you can resume your work only after favorable opinion the medical council. Your half-treatment continues to be paid to you until the date of the decision to resume service.
In case of refusal of the proposed post without a valid reason related to your medical condition, you can be licensee after obtaining the opinion of the Joint Administrative Commission.
Unfit to resume your previous duties
You're incumbent
If you have been on sick leave for 12 consecutive months, your situation is subject to the opinion of the medical council.
You can benefit from a period of preparation for reclassification or be directly reclassified to a job that is compatible with your health.
If your health does not allow you to return to work and if you are not entitled to a CLM, you can be placed in office availability if the medical council deems that your health will develop favorably.
If you are found permanently unfit in the exercise of any employment, you may be disability pension no matter your age and no matter how many quarters of pension insurance you have.
You continue to receive your half-treatment until the date of the decision of reclassification, lay-off or admission to retirement.
You're an intern
If your health does not allow you to return to work and you are not entitled to a CLM, you can be placed in unpaid leave during a period ofa maximum of one year renewable twice.
Leave and renewal shall be granted after opinion of the medical council.
If the medical council deems that your state of health can develop favorably during the 4e year, your unpaid leave can be renewed for a 3e times.
If you are found permanently unfit for employment, at the end of your sick leave or unpaid leave, you are licensee.
If you were seconded for an internship and hold another grade, your secondment for traineeship is terminated and you are made available to your home administration.
In your home administration, your situation is examined in accordance with the rules applicable to the permanent official.
Long-term sick leave (LSW)
If you have a medical condition that may lead to long-term sick leave (LSW), you can request to be placed in CLM in progress or at the end of your sick leave entitlements.
Articles L115-2, L115-3
Administrative situation of staff on leave for health reasons
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