Vocational Transition Leave in the State Civil Service (EPF)
Verified 10 April 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Are you a civil servant or a contract worker in a job the administration is considering eliminating? You can take a work transition leave. You can also benefit from it under certain conditions if you are in one of these cases: you are of category C 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 career transition leave is to train to practice a new trade :
- In the public service
- Or in the private sector.
Service Restructuring
You can take the Work Transition Leave if you complete the 2 following conditions :
- You are a public servant or contract worker on a permanent contract
- And you're in a job that the administration is looking at eliminating as part of a service restructuring
Reminder
When a restructuring of a government department or institution is implemented, a ministerial order defines the scope and duration of the restructuring.
The restructuring defined by decree may also concern a body of officials.
The duration of the implementation of the restructuring may not exceed Three years.
If you are affected by a restructuring operation, you are informed by all means of the personalized support arrangements you can benefit from (for example: review of your professional career).
Other
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
- Or you have a disability who is entitled to the obligation to employ
- Or it is found, after consulting the occupational doctor, that you are particularly exposed, having regard to your individual professional situation, to a risk of professional wear and tear.
The benefit of this work transition leave implies that you and your administration have noticed the need to practice a new occupation.
You can take a training course or a training path.
Training may be:
- Certifying of a duration of 120 hours or more
- 70 hours or more to assist in the creation or resumption of a company.
Your administration supports:
- Training costs, possibly up to a maximum
- And, where applicable, the costs of your travel
The rules vary according to the nature of the chargeable event leading to the introduction of the leave for professional transition (service restructuring or other cases).
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Service Restructuring
The application for work transition leave must be made at least 60 days before the date on which training commences.
Your application must specify:
- The nature of training
- The duration of the training
- The name of the training organization
- The professional objective.
Your administration will inform you of its response in writing within 30 days of receiving your request for leave.
In case of refusal, the decision of your employment administration must be reasoned.
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
You are a public servant or contract employee 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
- Or you have a disability who is entitled to the obligation to employ
- Or it is found, after consulting the occupational doctor, that you are particularly exposed, having regard to your individual professional situation, to a risk of professional wear and tear.
The application for work transition leave must then be made at least 3 months before the date on which training commences.
Your application must specify:
- The nature of training
- The duration of the training
- The name of the training organization
- The professional objective
Your administration will inform you of its response, in writing, within 2 months upon receipt of your request for leave.
In case of refusal, the decision of your employment administration must be reasoned.
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.
The rules vary according to the operative event leading to the introduction of the occupational transition leave (service restructuring or other cases).
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Service Restructuring
Work transition leave may be split:
- In months
- In weeks
- Or in days
The leave must be completed before the end of the restructuring period set by the Ministerial Order.
However, your leave may extend beyond this period if you started your training less than 12 months before the end of the restructuring period due to a postponement of your training for operational requirements.
If your work project requires one or more training courses with a total duration of more than 12 months, you can request that your work transition leave be extended by one or more vocational leave. In this case, the cumulative duration of your career transition and vocational training leave should not exceed Three years.
Warning
If you stop taking your training without legitimate reason, you lose the benefit of your leave.
Other
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
- Or you have a disability who is entitled to the obligation to employ
- Or it is found, after consulting the occupational doctor, that you are particularly exposed, having regard to your individual professional situation, to a risk of professional wear and tear
Work transition leave may be split:
- In months
- In weeks
- Or in days.
If your professional project requires one or more courses with a total duration of more than 12 mes, you can request that your work transition leave be extended by a vocational leave. In this case, the cumulative duration of your career transition and vocational training leave should not exceed Three years.
In order to prove your attendance, you must forward, according to a schedule agreed between you and your administration, the certificates drawn up by the training organization.
If you stop taking your training without legitimate reason, you lose the benefit of your leave.
During your leave, you continue to receive:
- Your gross index processing
- your residence allowance and your family treatment supplement, if you have these 2 compensation elements
- 80% the compensation scheme you are entitled to on the date of your leave for work transition
Please note
For the calculation of 80% the following elements of your compensation plan are not 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.