Long-term leave (LTU) of the official

Verified 08 March 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

As a public servant, you may be placed on long-term leave (LTW) if you have cancer, severe and acquired immunodeficiency, mental illness, tuberculosis or polio. We will detail the rules applicable to this long-term leave. These rules vary according to your public service of origin (State - FPE, territorial - FPT, hospital - FPH)

EPF

If you are in activity or secondment, you can request to be placed on long-term leave (LTD) if you are suffering from any of the following diseases and in theThe inability to perform your duties :

  • Cancerous disorder
  • Immunodeficiency serious and acquired
  • Mental illness
  • Tuberculosis
  • Poliomyelitis.

You can be placed in CLD, whether you are a full-time public servant or a trainee.

FYI  

Your CLD implementation may also be involved at the request of your employer administration if, on the basis of a certificate from the occupational doctor or a report from your superiors, your state of health could justify your leave of absence.

The CLD is assigned at the end of 1re year of long-term sick leave (LSW) fully paid.

However, if you have exhausted your full-year paid entitlement to a CLM, you can be placed directly in a CLD.

At the end of 1re year of a CLM paid at full salary, you can also apply to be kept in CLM. The administration grants you an extension of your CLM or a CLD after the medical advice.

If you get your CLM extension, then you can no longer benefit from a CLD for the same pathology until you have resumed your duties at least 1 year between the end of your CLM and the start of the CLD.

If you are placed in CLD at the end of your 1re full-salary CLM year, this 1re CLM year is reconsidered as a CLD year.

The duration maximum of the CLD is set to 5 years.

The CLD can be used from continuous or discontinuous.

The CLD is granted or renewed by periods of 3 to 6 months.

Its duration shall be fixed by the administration on a proposal from the medical council.

You cannot get multiple CLDs during your career for the same category of conditions.

If you have received a CLD for any of the 5 categories of conditions that qualify for it, you cannot be reclassified as a CLD for a condition of the same category only if you have not exhausted your rights to the maximum 5 years of CLD.

If you acquire a new condition, different from the one that led to your CLD, you are entitled to a new 5-year CLD in its entirety.

You must send your employer administration a request for a CLD, accompanied by a medical certificate from your treating physician.

Your CLD layout is subject to the opinion of the medical council.

Your treating physician addresses the Secretariat of the medical advice a summary of their observations and any supporting documentation.

During the investigation of your file, the medical council can call on the expertise of a licensed doctor.

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.

At least 10 working days before the date of the medical council meeting, the medical council secretariat informs you of this date and of your following rights:

  • Consult your file
  • Provide written submissions and medical certificates
  • Be accompanied or represented, if desired, by a person of your choice at all stages of the procedure.

The Medical Council Secretariat will also inform you of the possible avenues of challenge in front of the higher medical council.

You and your employer administration can have the doctor of your choice heard by the medical council.

If the medical council deems it useful, they can ask to hear from you.

The working doctor of your administration is informed of the meeting of the medical council. They can ask for your medical records and can make written submissions or attend the meeting without voting.

The medical council sends its opinion to you and also to your administration.

During the first 3 years of CLD (paid at full pay), renewing your CLD shall be given, at your request, without the matter being referred to the medical council.

You must submit an application accompanied by a medical certificate from your doctor stating that the leave initially granted must be extended and specifying the duration of this extension.

When you ask for the extending your CLD beyond 3 years, i.e. beyond the period of full pay, the extension shall again be decided on the advice of the medical council.

If your CLD extends a 4e year then a 5e year, your administration submits you to a examination by an approved medical practitioner aat least once a year.

If you refuse 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.

Your index treatment is paid to you in total for 3 years, and then halved the next 2 years.

If you perceive the residence allowance and the family treatment supplement (FTS), these remuneration elements are paid to you in full throughout the duration of your CLD.

If you perceive new index enhancement (NBI), its payment is suspended during your CLD.

Premiums and allowances cease to be paid.

Please note

If the application for a CLD is made during ordinary sick leave (CMO), the premiums paid during the CMO remain forfeited.

FYI  

Fees and other medical expenses resulting from examinations requested by the administration shall be borne by the administration. The same applies to the possible transport costs to get you to these visits and examinations. The payment of transport costs is provided on presentation of the medical prescription for transport and a invoice issued by the carrier or proof of carriage.

Time spent on long-term leave is ineffective on your rights to advancement (step and grade) and internal promotion.

It is also no effect on your retirement.

Time spent on long-term leave does not reduce your entitlement to other leave, including:

Reminder

If you are unable to take vacation leave because of your long-term leave, some of your vacation leave may be postponed.

Periods of long-term leave do not give you not entitled to RTT.

If you are a probationary public servant, long-term leave extends the duration of your internship.

You can request a training or a skills assessment or to engage in an activity that promotes your rehabilitation or retraining. Your request is subject to the favorable opinion of the medical council.

During your long-term leave, you must meet the following obligations:

  • Cease all paid work (except medically ordered and supervised activities for your rehabilitation to employment)
  • Inform your administration of any change of residence
  • Inform your administration of any absence from your home of more than 2 weeks (except in case of hospitalization) and indicate your dates and places of stay.

In the event of non-compliance with these obligations, your remuneration is no longer paid until you meet the relevant obligation.

The length of time your pay is interrupted counts towards the LTB period.

To resume your duties at the end of your CLD, you must provide a medical certificate of fitness for take-back.

When you have been in CLD for a maximum of 5 years, your return to duty is subject to the favorable opinion of the medical council.

The same applies if you are performing duties that require special health conditions or if you have been placed in a CLD at the request of your administration.

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Favorable opinion on your return to work

You're back in business.

When you go to CLD, you are replaced in your duties.

At the end of your CLD, if no job corresponding to your grade is vacant, you are reinstated in excess. The excess is eliminated at 1re vacancy corresponding to your grade

Your workstation can be adapted to your health if necessary.

Payment for half-treatment shall be maintained, if necessary, until the date of the decision to resume service.

Unfavorable opinion to your resumption of work on your previous duties

Your situation varies depending on whether you are a full-time public servant or a trainee.

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, you can be placed in office availability if the medical council deems that your health will develop favorably.

If you are found to be permanently unfit for any employment, you may be laid off disability pension no matter your age and no matter how many quarters of pension insurance you have.

Payment of half-salary shall be maintained, if necessary, until the date of the decision on reclassification, lay-off or admission to retirement.

You're an intern

If your health does not allow you to return to work, you can be placed in unpaid leave during a period of up to one year if the medical council deems that your health will develop favorably.

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 found to be permanently unfit for employment, at the end of your long-term 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, you can benefit from a period of preparation for reclassification or be directly reclassified to a job compatible with your state of health or retired for disability.

Payment of half-salary shall be maintained, if necessary, until the date of the decision to reclassify, to take unpaid leave or to dismiss.

FPT

If you are in activity or secondment, you can request to be placed on long-term leave (LTD) if you are suffering from any of the following diseases and in theThe inability to perform your duties :

  • Cancerous disorder
  • Immunodeficiency serious and acquired
  • Mental illness
  • Tuberculosis
  • Poliomyelitis.

You can be placed in CLD, whether you are a full-time public servant or a trainee.

FYI  

Your CLD implementation may also be involved at the request of your employer administration if, on the basis of a certificate from the occupational doctor or a report from your superiors, your state of health could justify your leave of absence.

The CLD is assigned at the end of 1re year of long-term sick leave (LSW) fully paid.

However, if you have exhausted your full-year paid entitlement to a CLM, you can be placed directly in a CLD.

At the end of 1re year of a CLM paid at full salary, you can also apply to be kept in CLM. The administration grants you an extension of your CLM or a CLD after the medical advice.

If you get your CLM extension, then you can no longer benefit from a CLD for the same pathology until you have resumed your duties at least 1 year between the end of your CLM and the start of the CLD.

If you are placed in CLD at the end of your 1re full-salary CLM year, this 1re CLM year is reconsidered as a CLD year.

The duration maximum of the CLD is set to 5 years.

The CLD can be used from continuous or discontinuous.

The CLD is granted or renewed by periods of 3 to 6 months.

Its duration shall be fixed by the administration on a proposal from the medical council.

You cannot get multiple CLDs during your career for the same category of conditions.

If you have received a CLD for any of the 5 categories of conditions that qualify for it, you cannot be reclassified as a CLD for a condition of the same category only if you have not exhausted your rights to the maximum 5 years of CLD.

If you acquire a new condition, different from the one that led to your CLD, you are entitled to a new 5-year CLD in its entirety.

You must send your employer administration a request for a CLD, accompanied by a medical certificate from your treating physician.

Your CLD layout is subject to the opinion of the medical council.

Your treating physician addresses the Secretariat of the medical advice a summary of their observations and any supporting documentation.

During the investigation of your file, the medical council can call on the expertise of a licensed doctor.

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.

At least 10 working days before the date of the medical council meeting, the medical council secretariat informs you of this date and of your following rights:

  • Consult your file
  • Provide written submissions and medical certificates
  • Be accompanied or represented, if desired, by a person of your choice at all stages of the procedure.

The Medical Council Secretariat will also inform you of the possible avenues of challenge in front of the higher medical council.

You and your employer administration can have the doctor of your choice heard by the medical council.

If the medical council deems it useful, they can ask to hear from you.

The working doctor of your administration is informed of the meeting of the medical council. They can ask for your medical records and can make written submissions or attend the meeting without voting.

The medical council sends its opinion to you and also to your administration.

During the first 3 years of CLD (paid at full pay), renewing your CLD shall be given, at your request, without the matter being referred to the medical council.

You must submit an application accompanied by a medical certificate from your doctor stating that the leave initially granted must be extended and specifying the duration of this extension.

When you ask for the extending your CLD beyond 3 years, i.e. beyond the period of full pay, the extension shall again be decided on the advice of the medical council.

If your CLD extends a 4e year then a 5e year, your administration submits you to a examination by an approved medical practitioner aat least once a year.

If you refuse 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.

Your index treatment is poured to you in ttotal for 3 years, and then halved the next 2 years.

If you perceive the residence allowance and the family treatment supplement (FTS), these remuneration elements are paid to you in full throughout the duration of your CLD.

If you perceive new index enhancement (NBI), its payment is suspended during your CLD.

The conditions for suspending or maintaining premiums shall be determined by deliberation.

Please note

If the application for a CLD is made during ordinary sick leave (CMO), the premiums paid during the CMO remain forfeited.

FYI  

Fees and other medical expenses resulting from examinations requested by the administration shall be borne by the administration. The same applies to the possible transport costs to get you to these visits and examinations. The support for transport costs is provided on presentation of the medical prescription for transport and a invoice issued by the carrier or proof of carriage.

During your long-term leave, you must meet the following obligations:

  • Cease all paid work (except medically ordered and supervised activities for your rehabilitation to employment)
  • Inform your administration of any change of residence
  • Inform your administration of any absence from your home of more than 2 weeks (except in case of hospitalization) and indicate your dates and places of stay.

In the event of non-compliance with these obligations, your remuneration is no longer paid until you meet the relevant obligation.

The length of time your pay is interrupted counts towards the LTB period.

Time spent on long-term leave is ineffective on your rights to advancement (step and grade) and internal promotion.

It is also no effect on your retirement.

Time spent on long-term leave does not reduce your entitlement to other leave, including:

Reminder

If you are unable to take vacation leave because of your long-term leave, some of your vacation leave may be postponed.

Periods of long-term leave do not give you not entitled to RTT.

If you are a probationary public servant, long-term leave extends the duration of your internship.

You can request a training or a skills assessment or to engage in an activity that promotes your rehabilitation or retraining. Your request is subject to the favorable opinion of the medical council.

To resume your duties at the end of your CLD, you must provide a medical certificate of fitness for take-back.

When you have been in CLD for a maximum of 5 years, your return to duty is subject to the favorable opinion of the medical council.

The same applies if you are performing duties that require special health conditions or if you have been placed in a CLD at the request of your administration.

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Favorable opinion on your return to work

You're back in office.

Your workstation can be adapted to your health if necessary.

Payment for half-treatment shall be maintained, if necessary, until the date of the decision to resume service.

Unfavorable opinion to your resumption of work on your previous duties

Your situation varies depending on whether you are a full-time public servant or a trainee.

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, you can be placed in office availability if the medical council deems that your health will develop favorably.

If you are found to be permanently unfit for employment, you can be laid off disability pension no matter your age and no matter how many quarters of pension insurance you have.

Payment of half-salary shall be maintained, if necessary, until the date of the decision on reclassification, lay-off or admission to retirement.

You're an intern

If your health does not allow you to return to work, you can be placed in unpaid leave during a period ofup to one year if the medical council deems that your health will develop favorably.

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 found to be permanently unfit for employment, at the end of your long-term 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, you can benefit from a period of preparation for reclassification or be directly reclassified to a job compatible with your state of health or retired for disability.

Payment of half-salary shall be maintained, if necessary, until the date of the decision to reclassify, to take unpaid leave or to dismiss.

FPH

If you are in activity or secondment, you can request to be placed on long-term leave (LTD) if you are suffering from any of the following diseases and in theThe inability to perform your duties :

  • Cancerous disorder
  • Immunodeficiency serious and acquired
  • Mental illness
  • Tuberculosis
  • Poliomyelitis.

You can be placed in CLD, whether you are a full-time public servant or a trainee.

FYI  

Your CLD implementation may also be involved at the request of your employer administration if, on the basis of a certificate from the occupational doctor or a report from your superiors, your state of health could justify your leave of absence.

The CLD is assigned at the end of 1re year of long-term sick leave (LSW) fully paid.

However, if you have exhausted your full-year paid entitlement to a CLM, you can be placed directly in a CLD.

At the end of 1re year of a CLM paid at full salary, you can also apply to be kept in CLM. The administration grants you an extension of your CLM or a CLD after the medical advice.

If you get your CLM extension, then you can no longer benefit from a CLD for the same pathology until you have resumed your duties at least 1 year between the end of your CLM and the start of the CLD.

If you are placed in CLD at the end of your 1re full-salary CLM year, this 1re CLM year is reconsidered as a CLD year.

The duration maximum of the CLD is set to 5 years.

The CLD can be used from continuous or discontinuous.

The CLD is granted or renewed by periods of 3 to 6 months.

Its duration shall be fixed by the administration on a proposal from the medical council.

You cannot get multiple CLDs during your career for the same category of conditions.

If you have received a CLD for any of the 5 categories of conditions that qualify for it, you cannot be reclassified as a CLD for a condition of the same category only if you have not exhausted your rights to the maximum 5 years of CLD.

If you acquire a new condition, different from the one that led to your CLD, you are entitled to a new 5-year CLD in its entirety.

You must send your employer administration a request for a CLD, accompanied by a medical certificate from your treating physician.

Your CLD layout is subject to the opinion of the medical council.

Your treating physician addresses the Secretariat of the medical advice a summary of their observations and any supporting documentation.

During the investigation of your file, the medical council can call on the expertise of a licensed doctor.

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.

At least 10 working days before the date of the medical council meeting, the medical council secretariat informs you of this date and of your following rights:

  • Consult your file
  • Provide written submissions and medical certificates
  • Be accompanied or represented, if desired, by a person of your choice at all stages of the procedure.

The Medical Council Secretariat will also inform you of the possible avenues of challenge in front of the higher medical council.

You and your employer administration can have the doctor of your choice heard by the medical council.

If the medical council deems it useful, they can ask to hear from you.

The working doctor of your administration is informed of the meeting of the medical council. They can ask for your medical records and can make written submissions or attend the meeting without voting.

The medical council sends its opinion to you and also to your administration.

During the first 3 years of CLD (paid at full pay), renewing your CLD shall be given, at your request, without the matter being referred to the medical council.

You must submit an application accompanied by a medical certificate from your doctor stating that the leave initially granted must be extended and specifying the duration of this extension.

When you ask for the extending your CLD beyond 3 years, i.e. beyond the period of full pay, the extension shall again be decided on the advice of the medical council.

If your CLD extends a 4e year then a 5e year, your administration submits you to a examination by an approved medical practitioner aat least once a year.

If you refuse 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.

Your index treatment is paid in totality for 3 years, and then halved the next 2 years.

If you perceive the residence allowance and the family treatment supplement (FTS), these remuneration elements are paid to you in full throughout the duration of your CLD.

If you perceive new index enhancement (NBI), its payment is suspended during your CLD.

The special hardship allowance (ISS) is paid in the same proportions as the salary: in total for 3 years and then reduced by half for the following 2 years.

Please note

If the application for a CLD is made during ordinary sick leave (CMO), the premiums paid during the CMO remain forfeited.

FYI  

Fees and other medical expenses resulting from examinations requested by the administration shall be borne by the administration. The same applies to the possible transport costs to get you to these visits and examinations. The payment of transport costs is provided on presentation of the medical prescription for transport and a invoice issued by the carrier or proof of carriage.

During your long-term leave, you must meet the following obligations:

  • Cease all paid work (except medically ordered and supervised activities for your rehabilitation to employment)
  • Inform your administration of any change of residence
  • Inform your administration of any absence from your home of more than 2 weeks (except in case of hospitalization) and indicate your dates and places of stay.

In the event of non-compliance with these obligations, your remuneration is no longer paid until you meet the relevant obligation.

The length of time your pay is interrupted counts towards the LTB period.

Time spent on long-term leave is ineffective on your rights to advancement (step and grade) and internal promotion.

It is also no effect on your retirement.

Time spent on long-term leave does not reduce your entitlement to other leave, including:

Reminder

If you are unable to take vacation leave because of your long-term leave, some of your vacation leave may be postponed.

Periods of long-term leave do not give you not entitled to RTT.

If you are a probationary public servant, long-term leave extends the duration of your internship.

You can request a training or a skills assessment or to engage in an activity that promotes your rehabilitation or retraining. Your request is subject to the favorable opinion of the medical council.

To resume your duties at the end of your CLD, you must provide a medical certificate of fitness for take-back.

When you have been in CLD for a maximum of 5 years, your return to duty is subject to the favorable opinion of the medical council.

The same applies if you are performing duties that require special health conditions or if you have been placed in a CLD at the request of your administration.

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Favorable opinion on your return to work

You're back in office.

Your workstation can be adapted to your health if necessary.

Payment for half-treatment shall be maintained, if necessary, until the date of the decision to resume service.

Unfavorable opinion to your resumption of work on your previous duties

Your situation varies depending on whether you are a full-time public servant or a trainee.

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, you can be placed in office availability if the medical council deems that your health will develop favorably.

If you are found to be permanently unfit for employment, you can be laid off disability pension no matter your age and no matter how many quarters of pension insurance you have.

Payment of half-salary shall be maintained, if necessary, until the date of the decision on reclassification, lay-off or admission to retirement.

You're an intern

If your health does not allow you to return to work, you can be placed in unpaid leave during a period ofup to one year if the medical council deems that your health will develop favorably.

Such unpaid leave may be renewed 3 times.

Leave without pay and its renewal shall be granted after consulting the medical council.

If you are found to be permanently unfit for employment, at the end of your long-term 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, you can benefit from a period of preparation for reclassification or be directly reclassified to a job compatible with your state of health or retired for disability.

Payment of half-salary shall be maintained, if necessary, until the date of the decision to reclassify, to take unpaid leave or to dismiss.

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