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What are the administrative positions in the civil service?

Verified 12 October 2021 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

An official may be placed in different administrative positions: activity, secondment, availability, parental leave.

The activity is the position of the official performing the duties of one of the posts corresponding to his grade.

Officials in active employment shall be entitled to various types of leave:

The official made available remains in an active position.

The detachment is the position of the official performing his duties outside his body or framework of uses of origin.

This is the case if, while remaining in his home public service, he exercises his duties in a body or framework of jobs other than his home body or framework of jobs.

Example :

A teacher who is a member of the Certified Teachers’ Corps and who wishes to retrain can be seconded to the interdepartmental corps of the State Administration Attachés.

This is also the case if the official performs his duties in a public service other than his home public service or outside the public service.

Example :

An official belonging to the Information and Communication Systems Engineers Corps who wishes to work in a territorial authority may be seconded to territorial engineers jobs.

The seconded official shall have rights to advancement in step and grade in his body or on secondment duty. And he continues to enjoy his rights to advancement in his body or in his original employment.

An official on secondment shall be entitled to the same leave as an official in active employment:

The availability is the position of an official who temporarily ceases to hold any office in the public service.

He remains a civil servant and is entitled to return to public employment at the end of his entitlement to stand-by.

While he is available, he ceases to be paid by his administration and no longer benefits from his pension rights.

He shall no longer be entitled to leave which may be granted to an official in active employment or on secondment.

He also no longer enjoys his rights to advancement in step and grade.

However, if the official pursues a professional activity while he is available, he shall retain his rights to advancement in step and grade for a maximum of five years. This applies if the availability has been granted or renewed as of September 7, 2018.

If the advancement of grade in his body or framework of uses of origin is subject to the prior occupation of certain posts or functions, this period of professional activity may be taken into account to fulfill this condition.

The activity must be comparable to those jobs and functions in terms of its nature or the level of responsibilities exercised.

It's the special status the original body or framework of employment which defines the conditions under which that professional activity may be taken into account.

The professional activity taken into account may be any remunerated, employed or self-employed activity. It can be full-time or part-time. It must represent a working time of at least 600 hours per year in the case of paid employment. In the case of self-employment, it must provide an annual gross income of at least €6,762.

The official shall also retain his rights to advancement in step and grade where he is available to bring up a child under 12 years of age.

The parental leave is the position of an official who temporarily ceases all activity in the public service in order to raise his child. This leave is unpaid.

Officials shall retain their promotion rights within the limit of five years for their entire career.

The time spent on parental leave shall be taken into account for the calculation of the duration of pension insurance up to a maximum of 3 years per child born or adopted after 2003.

An official on parental leave shall no longer be entitled to leave which may be granted to an official on active employment or secondment.