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Secondment at the request of the official
Verified 09 November 2021 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
French Polynesia, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Wallis Islands and Futuna
Objective and specific reasons, linked to the continuity of the operation of the service, which may justify the refusal by the administration of a right or benefit to a public official (part-time work, leave, etc.)
A set of officials subject to the same set of rules, called special status, fixed by decree, and intended to occupy the same posts
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden
If you are a full-time public servant, you can move to another public service or private sector job by secondment. Employers accessible by secondment are exhaustively listed in each public service.
What applies to you ?
State Civil Service (EPF)
Detachment is one way for a permanent official to change jobs while maintaining a link with his home administration.
A probationary official may not be seconded.
Posts accessible by secondment are exhaustively listed in a text specific to your public service of origin.
Detachment may be short or long-term.
- The secondment of short-lived is Maximum 6 months. In the event of secondment within overseas communities, in New Caledonia or abroad, it lasts for one year. Short-term secondment may not not be renewed.
- The secondment of long life is ofat least 6 months and up to 5 years. He is renewable for periods not exceeding 5 years.
In some cases, secondment is granted by right, that is to say that the administration cannot oppose your departure on secondment.
In other cases, the administration may object to your secondment due to service requirements. In this case, the administration must inform you of the objective and specific reasons why your departure on secondment jeopardizes the continuity of the operation of the service. She must be able to prove that your presence is indispensable. Refusal to grant you secondment may not be based on general considerations or subject to your replacement.
Once you have your employment promise on your secondment job, you must request your secondment in writing from both your home administration and your host employer.
It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or by hand-delivered letter against receipt.
Your secondment request must specify the desired start date and duration of the secondment.
When the secondment is not legal, your administration must respond to your request within 2 months of receiving your request.
If no response is received within 2 months, your request is automatically considered accepted.
Your administration may require you to comply with a period of notice of up to 3 months. This means that your administration may require you not to leave your position before a maximum period of 3 months from the date of receipt of your request for secondment.
When the secondment is not legal, your administration can ask the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life (HATVP) for its opinion if it has serious doubts about the compatibility of your new activity with the functions you have exercised over the last 3 years.
In the case of long-term secondment, you must apply to your home administration and host employer for renewal of your secondment or for reintegration into your home administration.
This request for renewal or reintegration must be made by mail at least 3 months before the end of your current secondment.
If you request a renewal of your secondment, your host employer must indicate whether or not it is renewing your secondment.
This decision must be made at least 2 months before the end of your current secondment.
If you are seconded to another State body or to a territorial or hospital post, your secondment may be renewed for a period exceeding five years only if you refuse to be integrated into your host body or post.
Please note
Secondment to carry out a public-interest mission of international cooperation or to international bodies of general interest is limited to 2 years renewable once 2 years. The secondment to a company, a private body or a public-interest group to carry out research of national interest there may be renewed only in exceptional cases and for a single period of five years.
Secondment to the public service
What bodies and job frameworks are accessible?
The corps and frames of employment of the 3 public services (FPE, FPT, FPH) are accessible by secondment except the following corps or frames of employment:
- State body with judicial powers (advisers to administrative tribunals, regional chambers of accounts, etc.),
- A body or job manager whose duties require a diploma or a specific title that you do not hold (e.g. medical and social professions).
Please note
Bodies and employment frameworks are also accessible to the military and civil servants of the European Economic Area (except for jobs connected with the exercise of public authority prerogatives).
Your host body or job cadre must be of the same category (A, B or C) as your original body.
And the conditions of recruitment or the level of the missions of your home corps and your host corps or framework of jobs must be of comparable level.
The conditions of recruitment should be compared according to the following points:
- Level of qualification or training required for access to your home body and your host body or job setting (college certificate, bachelor's degree, bachelor's degree, master's degree, doctorate, etc.)
- Method of recruitment in your home body and your host body or framework of jobs (competition, direct recruitment, internship period, application school, etc.)
- Preserve and conditions for recruitment by internal promotion in your home body and your host body or framework of posts (categories of staff eligible for promotion, period of training before establishment, etc.).
The missions of your home corps and your host corps or job cadre should be compared according to their nature, i.e. what characterizes them in general. But missions must also be compared according to the type of functions and the type of activities or responsibilities (management, management, expertise, execution, etc.) to which they give access.
However, in certain cases, the secondment may take place between staff and non-comparable posts:
- The similarity between the home institution and the host institution or post does not apply in the case of secondment for traineeships. In this case, if you are admitted to a competition, you may be seconded to a higher-level corps or cadre of jobs prior to being established there.
- If your original corps has at least one promotion grade that is available through a competition, you can be seconded to a different corps or job cadre.
- If you are found unfit to perform your duties, you may be seconded to a higher, equivalent or lower level body or position for reclassification.
How are you classified in your body or host jobs?
You are classified at a grade equivalent to your original grade, that is, with an equivalent index scale.
If you do not have an equivalent grade, you are assigned to the grade whose last step index is closest to the last step index of your original grade.
In this new grade, you are classified at the step with an index equal to your index in your home body.
If you do not have an equal index, you are graded at the step with the index immediately above the index you hold in your original grade.
You keep your step seniority within the average step progression time in your original grade.
However, the salary increase following your secondment must not exceed the salary increase that would result from a step advancement in your original grade.
If you are at the last step in your original grade, the salary increase following your secondment must not be higher than that resulting from your advancement to the last step.
Secondment to other bodies
In the event of secondment for to carry out a public-interest task of international cooperation or with an international body of general interest, an agreement shall be drawn up between the host body and the home administration. This agreement defines the nature and level of the activities entrusted to you, your conditions of employment and remuneration, and the conditions for monitoring and evaluating these activities. It also specifies how your pension contributions are collected.
In the case of secondment to a company, a private body or a public-interest group for carry out research of national interest, you must not have, in the last 5 years, exercised control over the company or participated in the preparation or awarding of contracts with it.
In the event of secondment to theadministration of another the European Economic Area, an agreement shall be drawn up between home and host administrations. It defines the nature and level of the activities entrusted to you, your conditions of employment and remuneration and the conditions for monitoring and evaluating these activities.
Secondment to a company linked to administration by a public contract in the context of a transfer of activities is tacitly renewed within the term of the public contract, unless you, your administration or the company objects to it at least 3 months before the end of your secondment.
Remuneration
You receive the remuneration corresponding to your host job.
If you are seconded to the public service, you receive the compensation plan for your host job.
Whether your secondment is due to a restructuring of the service, you can collect, under conditions, the accompanying supplement.
Grade and step increments
During your secondment, you continue to advance one step in your original rank. You can also benefit from a progression of grade or an internal promotion.
If you are seconded to the civil service, you benefit from the increments in your host grade.
You can also benefit, in your host administration, from a promotion of grade and internal promotion according to the rules applicable to your host body or framework of jobs.
And if you qualify for or fulfill the conditions for a progression from grade to grade in your home corps, the grade and step you have attained or are eligible for will be taken into account in your host corps or job framework, if this makes it possible to rank you at a more favorable step.
Working conditions
You are subject to the rules governing your host employment, in particular as regards organization and working hours.
You are under the authority of the hierarchical superiors of your host administration or agency.
Vocational assessment
Secondment to the public service
In the event of a long-term secondment, you will receive a professional interview conducted by the immediate superior to whom you report in your host administration.
The report of this professional interview is forwarded to your home administration.
In the event of a short-term secondment, the head of department to which you report shall pass on an assessment of your activity at the end of your secondment to your home administration. , This assessment shall be communicated to you.
Secondment to other bodies
You benefit from an interview conducted by the direct supervisor to whom you report in your host organization. This interview results in a report that is sent to you and to which you can comment.
It is then forwarded to your home administration.
Retirement
During your secondment, you cannot contribute to the pension plan under which your host job falls. You continue to contribute to the Civil Pension Fund (State Pension Service - SRE).
Your pension contributions are calculated on the index salary or remuneration of your host job.
However, you can choose to continue contributing to the civil pension fund or to the pension plan of your host job in the following cases:
- Secondment to an administration or agency established in a foreigner State
- Secondment to international organizations.
If you are seconded to serve as mayor, general or regional councilor, you continue to contribute to the civil pension fund.
If you are seconded to serve as a member of Parliament or a senator, you must contribute to the pension fund for former members of Parliament and to the pension fund for former senators.
If you are seconded to serve as a Member of the European Parliament, you must contribute to the pension fund of former Members.
Early reintegration
At your request
If you ask to end your secondment before the scheduled date, you are reinstated in a vacancy in your rank.
If there is no vacancy, you are placed on automatic leave until you are reinstated in one of the first 3 vacancies in your grade.
At the request of the administration
General case
Your secondment may be terminated before the scheduled date at the request of your administration or the host organization or at the request of your home administration.
The original administration requesting early termination of the secondment will reinstate you in a post of your rank.
The host administration which terminates the secondment in the absence of professional misconduct must pay you until you return to 1re vacancy, if your home administration cannot reinstate you immediately.
Detachments eligible for overcrowding
Where early reinstatement is requested in the absence of professional misconduct, you are immediately reinstated in excess of your original body when you were seconded for one of the following reasons:
- Participate in a cooperation mission
- Serving in an overseas community or in New Caledonia
- Providing education abroad
- Perform a public interest mission abroad or with an international intergovernmental organization
- Carrying out a public-interest task of international cooperation or with a body of general interest of international character
- To the administration of a State of the European Economic Area.
Reinstatement to normal date
Short-term secondment
At the end of a short-term secondment, you must be reinstated in your previous job.
Long-term secondment
Reinstatement at the request of the official
At least 3 months before the end of your secondment, you must submit your application for reintegration. He is reinstated in a job of your rank.
Reinstatement at the request of the host administration
Where the host administration refuses to renew your secondment in the absence of professional misconduct, you shall be reinstated immediately, if necessary in excess, in a post of your grade.
The excess must be eliminated at 1re vacancy in your grade.
You have priority to be assigned to the position you held before your secondment.
If you decline the proposed position, you can only be appointed to another position if a vacancy is available.
Integration into host administration
Legal integration after 5 years of secondment
At the end of a 5-year secondment to the public service, you must inform your home and host administrations of your wish to renew your secondment.
If the host administration wishes to continue the working relationship with you, it must offer you, at least 2 months before the end of the secondment, to integrate your host body or framework of jobs.
You can accept this offer or choose to renew your secondment.
On-demand integration
If you are seconded to a public service corps or cadre of jobs, you can apply for integration into that corps or cadre of jobs without waiting for the 5-year deadline.
You must make your request in writing to your host administration and then, in the event of a favorable opinion, to your home administration.
The host administration is not obliged to respond favorably to your request.
Administrative situation
If you are integrated into your host body or employment framework, you are removed from your home body and belong to your host body or employment framework.
You are integrated, in your body or in your host jobs with equivalence of rank. And you are classified at the step with an index equal to or, failing that, immediately higher than that which you hold, whichever is more favorable to you, in your home or posting body or framework.
Services performed in your home body are treated as services performed in your host body or job setting.
Territorial (FPT)
Detachment is one way for a permanent official to change jobs while maintaining a link with his home administration.
A probationary official may not be seconded.
Posts accessible by secondment are exhaustively listed in a text specific to your public service of origin.
Detachment may be short or long-term.
- The secondment of short-lived is Maximum 6 months. In the event of secondment within overseas communities, in New Caledonia or abroad, it lasts for one year. Short-term secondment may not not be renewed.
- The secondment of long life is ofat least 6 months and up to 5 years. He is renewable for periods not exceeding 5 years.
In some cases, secondment is granted by right, that is to say that the administration cannot oppose your departure on secondment.
In other cases, the administration may object to your secondment due to service requirements. In this case, the administration must inform you of the objective and specific reasons why your departure on secondment jeopardizes the continuity of the operation of the service. She must be able to prove that your presence is indispensable. Refusal to grant you secondment may not be based on general considerations or subject to your replacement.
Once you have your employment promise on your secondment job, you must request your secondment in writing from both your home administration and your host employer.
It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or by hand-delivered letter against receipt.
Your secondment request must specify the desired start date and duration of the secondment.
When the secondment is not legal, your administration must respond to your request within 2 months of receiving your request.
If no response is received within 2 months, your request is automatically considered accepted.
Your administration may require you to comply with a period of notice of up to 3 months. This means that your administration may require you not to leave your position before a maximum period of 3 months from the date of receipt of your request for secondment.
When the secondment is not legal, your administration can ask the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life (HATVP) for its opinion if it has serious doubts about the compatibility of your new activity with the functions you have exercised over the last 3 years.
There is no provision for a period within which you must request renewal of secondment or reinstatement in your home administration in the event of long-term secondment.
If you are seconded to another territorial post or to a State or hospital body, your secondment may not be renewed beyond five years unless you refuse to be integrated into your host body or body.
Please note
The secondment to a company, a private body or a public-interest group to carry out research of national interest there may be renewed only in exceptional cases and for a single period of five years.
Secondment to carry out a public-interest mission of international cooperation or to international bodies of general interest is limited to 2 years renewable once 2 years.
Secondment to the public service
What bodies and job frameworks are accessible?
The corps and frames of employment of the 3 public services (FPE, FPT, FPH) are accessible by secondment except the following corps or frames of employment:
- State body with judicial powers (advisers to administrative tribunals, regional chambers of accounts, etc.),
- A body or job manager whose duties require a diploma or a specific title that you do not hold (e.g. medical and social professions).
Please note
Bodies and employment frameworks are also accessible to the military and civil servants of the European Economic Area (except for jobs connected with the exercise of public authority prerogatives).
Your host employment body or framework must be of the same category (A, B or C) as your original employment framework.
And the conditions of recruitment or the level of the missions of your original employment framework and of your host employment body or framework must be of comparable level.
The conditions of recruitment should be compared according to the following points:
- Level of qualification or training required for access to your original job site and your host body or job site (college certificate, bachelor's degree, bachelor's degree, master's degree, doctorate, etc.)
- How to recruit in your original job and your host body or job (competition, direct recruitment, internship period, application school, etc.)
- Preserve and conditions for recruitment by internal promotion in your home-country employment and your host-country employment (categories of staff eligible for promotion, period of training before establishment, etc.).
The missions of your original job cadre and your host job corps or cadre should be compared according to their nature, i.e. what characterizes them in general. But missions must also be compared according to the type of functions and the type of activities or responsibilities (management, management, expertise, execution, etc.) to which they give access.
However, in certain cases, the secondment may take place between staff and non-comparable posts:
- The similarity between the home employment office and the host employment office or post does not apply in the case of secondment for traineeships. In this case, if you are admitted to a competition, you may be seconded to a higher-level corps or cadre of jobs prior to being established there.
- If your original job cadre has at least 1 promotion grade that is available through a competition, you can be posted to a different grade corps or job cadre
- If you are found unfit to perform your duties, you may be seconded to a higher, equivalent or lower level body or position for reclassification.
How are you classified in your body or host jobs?
You are classified at a grade equivalent to your original grade, that is, with an equivalent index scale.
If you do not have an equivalent grade, you are assigned to the grade whose last step index is closest to the last step index of your original grade.
In this new grade, you are classified at the step with an index equal to your index in your home body.
If you do not have an equal index, you are graded at the step with the index immediately above the index you hold in your original grade.
You keep your step seniority within the average step progression time in your original grade.
However, the salary increase following your secondment must not exceed the salary increase that would result from a step advancement in your original grade.
If you are at the last step in your original grade, the salary increase following your secondment must not be higher than that resulting from your advancement to the last step.
Secondment to other bodies
In the event of secondment to a company performing missions of general interest, your draft contract and its amendments must be approved in advance by your home community. The same shall apply in the case of secondment to a private body or association whose activities promote or complement the activities of a public authority.
In the event of secondment for to carry out a public-interest task of international cooperation or with an international body of general interest, an agreement shall be drawn up between the host body and the home administration. This agreement defines the nature and level of the activities entrusted to you, your conditions of employment and remuneration, and the conditions for monitoring and evaluating these activities. It also specifies how your pension contributions are collected.
In the case of secondment to a company, a private body or a public-interest group for carry out research of national interest, you must not have, in the last 3 years, exercised control over the company or participated in the preparation or awarding of contracts with it.
In the event of secondment to theadministration of another the European Economic Area, an agreement shall be drawn up between home and host administrations. It defines the nature and level of the activities entrusted to you, your conditions of employment and remuneration and the conditions for monitoring and evaluating these activities.
Remuneration
You receive the remuneration corresponding to your host job.
If you are seconded to the public service, you receive the compensation plan for your host job.
Whether your secondment is due to a restructuring of the service, you can collect, under conditions, the accompanying supplement.
Grade and step increments
During your secondment, you continue to advance one step in your original rank. You can also benefit from a progression of grade or an internal promotion.
If you are seconded to the civil service, you benefit from the increments in your host grade.
You can also benefit, in your host administration, from a promotion of grade and internal promotion according to the rules applicable to your host body or framework of jobs.
And if you qualify for or fulfill the conditions for a progression from grade to grade in your home corps, the grade and step you have attained or are eligible for will be taken into account in your host corps or job framework, if this makes it possible to rank you at a more favorable step.
Working conditions
You are subject to the rules governing your host employment, in particular as regards organization and working hours.
You are under the authority of the hierarchical superiors of your host administration or agency.
Vocational assessment
Secondment to the public service
In the event of a long-term secondment, you will receive a professional interview conducted by the immediate superior to whom you report in your host administration.
The report of this professional interview is forwarded to your home administration.
In the event of a short-term secondment, the head of department to which you report shall pass on an assessment of your activity at the end of your secondment to your home administration. , This assessment shall be communicated to you.
Secondment to other bodies
You benefit from an interview conducted by the direct supervisor to whom you report in your host organization. This interview results in a report that is sent to you and to which you can comment.
It is then forwarded to your home administration.
Retirement
During your secondment, you cannot contribute to the pension plan under which your host job falls. You continue to contribute to the Civil Pension Fund (State Pension Service - SRE).
Your pension contributions are calculated on the index salary or remuneration of your host job.
However, you can choose to continue contributing to the civil pension fund or to the pension plan of your host job in the following cases:
- Secondment to an administration or agency established in a foreigner State
- Secondment to international organizations.
If you are seconded to serve as mayor, general or regional councilor, you continue to contribute to the civil pension fund.
If you are seconded to serve as a member of Parliament or a senator, you must contribute to the pension fund for former members of Parliament and to the pension fund for former senators.
If you are seconded to serve as a Member of the European Parliament, you must contribute to the pension fund of former Members.
Early reintegration
At your request
If you ask to end your secondment before the scheduled end date, you are reinstated in a vacancy in your rank.
If there is no vacancy, you are placed on automatic leave until your reintegration.
If it did not occur on the date of the end of your secondment originally scheduled, you are reintegrated in excess and then eventually taken care of by the CNFPT: titleContent or the management center under the same conditions as for official whose post is terminated.
At the request of the administration
General case
The secondment may be terminated before the scheduled date at the request of the administration or host body or at the request of the home authority.
The host administration or organization wishing to terminate the secondment early must inform the home authority at least 3 months in advance, except in cases of professional misconduct.
The community of origin that asks for an early end of your secondment will reinstate you in a job of your rank.
The host administration, which terminates the secondment in the absence of professional misconduct, must pay you at the latest until the date of termination of the secondment originally scheduled, if your home community cannot reintegrate you immediately.
If no vacant post is available at the end of the period of secondment, you are reinstated in excess and then possibly taken over by the CNFPT: titleContent or the management center under the same conditions as for official whose post is terminated.
Detachments eligible for overcrowding
Where early reinstatement is requested in the absence of professional misconduct, you are compulsorily reinstated in your previous employment when you were seconded to a natural person or to the administration of a State of the European Economic Area.
When this job is not vacant, you are reinstated in excess and then eventually taken over by the CNFPT: titleContent or the management center under the same conditions as for official whose post is terminated.
Reinstatement to normal date
Short-term secondment
At the end of a short-term secondment, you must be reinstated in the job you previously held.
Long-term secondment
At the end of the secondment, you are reinstated to your employment and reassigned to 1re vacancy or job creation corresponding to your rank in his home community.
If you refuse the proposed job, you can only be reinstated if a vacancy is available. You are, in the meantime, placed on automatic standby.
If there is no vacant post at the end of the secondment, you are reinstated in excess and then possibly taken over by the CNFPT: titleContent or the management center under the same conditions as for official whose post is terminated.
Integration into host administration
Legal integration after 5 years of secondment
At the end of a 5-year secondment to the public service, you must inform your home and host administrations of your wish to renew your secondment.
If the host administration wishes to continue the working relationship with you, it must offer you, at least 2 months before the end of the secondment, to integrate your host body or framework of jobs.
You can accept this offer or choose to renew your secondment.
On-demand integration
If you are seconded to a public service corps or cadre of jobs, you can apply for integration into that corps or cadre of jobs without waiting for the 5-year deadline.
You must make your request in writing to your host administration and then, in the event of a favorable opinion, to your home administration.
The host administration is not obliged to respond favorably to your request.
Administrative situation
If you are integrated into your host body or employment framework, you are removed from your home body and belong to your host body or employment framework.
You are integrated, in your body or in your host jobs with equivalence of rank. And you are classified at the step with an index equal to or, failing that, immediately higher than that which you hold, whichever is more favorable to you, in your home or posting body or framework.
Services performed in your home employment are treated as services performed in your home body or host employment.
Hospital (FPH)
Detachment is one way for a permanent official to change jobs while maintaining a link with his home administration.
A probationary official may not be seconded.
Posts accessible by secondment are exhaustively listed in a text specific to your public service of origin.
Detachment may be short or long-term.
- The secondment of short-lived is Maximum 6 months. In the event of secondment within overseas communities, in New Caledonia or abroad, it lasts for one year. Short-term secondment may not not be renewed.
- The secondment of long life is ofat least 6 months and up to 5 years. He is renewable for periods not exceeding 5 years.
In some cases, secondment is granted by right, that is to say that the administration cannot oppose your departure on secondment.
In other cases, the administration may object to your secondment due to service requirements. In this case, the administration must inform you of the objective and specific reasons why your departure on secondment jeopardizes the continuity of the operation of the service. She must be able to prove that your presence is indispensable. Refusal to grant you secondment may not be based on general considerations or subject to your replacement.
Once you have your employment promise on your secondment job, you must request your secondment in writing from both your home administration and your host employer.
It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or by hand-delivered letter against receipt.
Your secondment request must specify the desired start date and duration of the secondment.
When the secondment is not legal, your administration must respond to your request within 2 months of receiving your request.
If no response is received within 2 months, your request is automatically considered accepted.
Your administration may require you to comply with a period of notice of up to 3 months. This means that your administration may require you not to leave your position before a maximum period of 3 months from the date of receipt of your request for secondment.
When the secondment is not legal, your administration can ask the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life (HATVP) for its opinion if it has serious doubts about the compatibility of your new activity with the functions you have exercised over the last 3 years.
In the case of long-term secondment, you must apply to your home administration and host employer for renewal of your secondment or for reintegration into your home administration.
This request for renewal or reintegration must be made by mail at least 3 months before the end of your current secondment.
If you request a renewal of your secondment, your host employer must indicate whether or not it is renewing your secondment.
This decision must be made at least 2 months before the end of your current secondment.
If you are seconded to the State or territorial civil service, your secondment may not be renewed beyond 5 years unless you refuse integration into your host body or employment.
Please note
The secondment to a company, a private body or a public interest group to carry out research of national interest may be renewed only once for a period of five years.
Secondment to the public service
What bodies and job frameworks are accessible?
State and territorial civil service bodies and employment frameworks shall be accessible by secondment, except for the following bodies or employment frameworks:
- State body with judicial powers (advisers to administrative tribunals, regional chambers of accounts, etc.),
- A body or cadre of jobs whose duties require a diploma or a specific title that you do not hold.
Please note
Bodies and employment frameworks are also accessible to the military and civil servants of the European Economic Area (except for jobs connected with the exercise of public authority prerogatives).
Your host body or job cadre must be of the same category (A, B or C) as your original body.
And the conditions of recruitment or the level of the missions of your home corps and your host corps or framework of jobs must be of comparable level.
The conditions of recruitment should be compared according to the following points:
- Level of qualification or training required for access to your home body and your host body or job setting (college certificate, bachelor's degree, bachelor's degree, master's degree, doctorate, etc.)
- Method of recruitment in your home body and your host body or framework of jobs (competition, direct recruitment, internship period, application school, etc.)
- Preserve and conditions for recruitment by internal promotion in your home body and your host body or framework of posts (categories of staff eligible for promotion, period of training before establishment, etc.).
The missions of your home corps and your host corps or job cadre should be compared according to their nature, i.e. what characterizes them in general. But missions must also be compared according to the type of functions and the type of activities or responsibilities (management, management, expertise, execution, etc.) to which they give access.
However, in certain cases, the secondment may take place between staff and non-comparable posts:
- The similarity between the home institution and the host institution or post does not apply in the case of secondment for traineeships. In this case, if you are admitted to a competition, you may be seconded to a higher-level corps or cadre of jobs prior to being established there.
- If your original corps has at least 1 promotion grade that is available through a competition, you can be seconded to a different corps or job cadre
- If you are found unfit to perform your duties, you may be seconded to a higher, equivalent or lower level body or position for reclassification.
How are you classified in your body or host jobs?
You are classified at a grade equivalent to your original grade, that is, with an equivalent index scale.
If you do not have an equivalent grade, you are assigned to the grade whose last step index is closest to the last step index of your original grade.
In this new grade, you are classified at the step with an index equal to your index in your home body.
If you do not have an equal index, you are graded at the step with the index immediately above the index you hold in your original grade.
You keep your step seniority within the average step progression time in your original grade.
However, the salary increase following your secondment must not exceed the salary increase that would result from a step advancement in your original grade.
If you are at the last step in your original grade, the salary increase following your secondment must not be higher than that resulting from your advancement to the last step.
Secondment to other bodies
In the event of secondment for carry out a public interest mission abroad or with an international intergovernmental organization, an agreement shall be drawn up between your home administration and the host organization. The same shall apply in the case of secondment to carry out a mission of public interest involving international cooperation or to an international body of general interest.
This agreement defines the nature and level of the activities entrusted to you, your conditions of employment and remuneration, and the conditions for monitoring and evaluating these activities. It also specifies how your pension contributions are collected.
In the event of secondment to theadministration of another the European Economic Area, an agreement shall be drawn up between home and host administrations. It defines the nature and level of the activities entrusted to you, your conditions of employment and remuneration and the conditions for monitoring and evaluating these activities.
Secondment to a company linked to administration by a public contract in the context of a transfer of activities is tacitly renewed within the term of the public contract, unless you, your administration or the company objects to it at least 3 months before the end of your secondment.
Remuneration
You receive the remuneration corresponding to your host job.
If you are seconded to the public service, you receive the compensation plan for your host job.
Whether your secondment is due to a restructuring of the service, you can collect, under conditions, the accompanying supplement.
Grade and step increments
During your secondment, you continue to advance one step in your original rank. You can also benefit from a progression of grade or an internal promotion.
If you are seconded to the civil service, you benefit from the increments in your host grade.
You can also benefit, in your host administration, from a promotion of grade and internal promotion according to the rules applicable to your host body or framework of jobs.
And if you qualify for or fulfill the conditions for a progression from grade to grade in your home corps, the grade and step you have attained or are eligible for will be taken into account in your host corps or job framework, if this makes it possible to rank you at a more favorable step.
Working conditions
You are subject to the rules governing your host employment, in particular as regards organization and working hours.
You are under the authority of the hierarchical superiors of your host administration or agency.
Vocational assessment
Secondment to the public service
In the event of a long-term secondment, you will receive a professional interview conducted by the immediate superior to whom you report in your host administration.
The report of this professional interview is forwarded to your home administration.
In the event of a short-term secondment, the head of department to which you report shall pass on an assessment of your activity at the end of your secondment to your home administration. , This assessment shall be communicated to you.
Secondment to other bodies
You benefit from an interview conducted by the direct supervisor to whom you report in your host organization. This interview results in a report that is sent to you and to which you can comment.
It is then forwarded to your home administration.
Retirement
During your secondment, you cannot contribute to the pension plan under which your host job falls. You continue to contribute to the Civil Pension Fund (State Pension Service - SRE).
Your pension contributions are calculated on the index salary or remuneration of your host job.
However, you can choose to continue contributing to the civil pension fund or to the pension plan of your host job in the following cases:
- Secondment to an administration or agency established in a foreigner State
- Secondment to international organizations.
If you are seconded to serve as mayor, general or regional councilor, you continue to contribute to the civil pension fund.
If you are seconded to serve as a member of Parliament or a senator, you must contribute to the pension fund for former members of Parliament and to the pension fund for former senators.
If you are seconded to serve as a Member of the European Parliament, you must contribute to the pension fund of former Members.
Early reintegration
At the request of the official
If you ask to end your secondment before the scheduled date, you are reinstated in a vacancy corresponding to your grade. You must submit your request at least 3 months in advance.
If there is no vacant post, you are placed on automatic leave until a post corresponding to your grade becomes vacant.
If, on the scheduled end date of your secondment, you have not been reinstated, you shall be automatically kept on standby and your head of establishment shall immediately inform theARS: titleContent.
The LRA offers you, within one year, 3 vacancies corresponding to your rank.
If you are a Category C, these jobs must be located in the home department of your home institution.
If you are a Category A or B employee, these jobs must be located in the home region of your home institution.
If you are a management staff, engineer, care manager or psychologist, these jobs can be located in any hospital facility.
If you were seconded to a company linked to the administration by a public contract, a partnership contract or a public service delegation, you are reinstated in your home body and assigned to a post corresponding to your grade, if necessary in excess.
At the request of the administration
General case
Your secondment may be terminated before the due date at the request of the host administration or organization or at the request of your home establishment.
Applications must be made at least 3 months in advance, except in cases of professional misconduct.
The home institution requesting early termination of the secondment will reinstate you in a post of your rank.
The host administration or body requesting the early termination of the secondment, for reasons other than professional misconduct, shall continue to pay you until the scheduled end date of your secondment, if your home establishment cannot reinstate you immediately.
If, on the scheduled end date of your secondment, you have not been reinstated, you shall be placed on compulsory leave and your head of establishment shall immediately inform theARS: titleContent.
If you are a Category C, these jobs must be located in the home department of your home institution.
If you are a Category A or B employee, these jobs must be located in the home region of your home institution.
If you are a management staff, engineer, care manager or psychologist, these jobs can be located in any hospital facility.
Detachment giving entitlement to overcrowded reintegration
Where early reinstatement is requested for reasons other than professional misconduct, you shall be reinstated immediately, if necessary, in excess of your original body if you were seconded to one of the following:
- Administration of a State the European Economic Area,
- company linked to administration by a public contract, partnership contract or public service delegation.
Reinstatement to normal date
Short-term secondment
At the end of a short-term secondment, you must be reinstated in your job.
Long-term secondment
General case
At least three months before the end of your secondment, you must inform your home administration and your host administration or organization of your wish to return to your home administration.
You are reassigned to the post you held before your secondment or to another post, within the same establishment, corresponding to your grade.
If you refuse the proposed job, you can only be reinstated if a vacancy is available in your home institution. You are, in the meantime, placed on automatic standby.
If there is no vacancy, you are automatically placed on standby and your head of establishment immediately informs theARS: titleContent.
The LRA offers you, within one year, 3 vacancies corresponding to your rank.
If you are a Category C, these jobs must be located in the home department of your home institution.
If you are a Category A or B employee, these jobs must be located in the home region of your home institution.
If you are a management staff, engineer, care manager or psychologist, these jobs can be located in any hospital facility.
Where the host administration refuses to renew the secondment in the absence of professional misconduct, you shall be reinstated under the same conditions.
Where the host administration has not notified its refusal to renew the secondment at least 2 months before its expiry, it shall continue to pay you until you are reinstated at 1re vacancy in your home body, if your home administration cannot reinstate you immediately.
Detachment giving entitlement to overcrowded reintegration
You are reinstated by your institution, if necessary in excess, when the secondment has taken place for one of the following reasons:
- Carrying out a public mission abroad
- To a company linked to administration by a public contract, a partnership contract or a public service delegation.
The excess is eliminated at 1re vacancy corresponding to your grade.
Integration into host administration
Legal integration after 5 years of secondment
At the end of a 5-year secondment to the public service, you must inform your home and host administrations of your wish to renew your secondment.
If the host administration wishes to continue the working relationship with you, it must offer you, at least 2 months before the end of the secondment, to integrate your host body or framework of jobs.
You can accept this offer or choose to renew your secondment.
On-demand integration
If you are seconded to a public service corps or cadre of jobs, you can apply for integration into that corps or cadre of jobs without waiting for the 5-year deadline.
You can make your request in writing to your host administration and then, in the event of a favorable opinion, to your home administration.
The host administration is not obliged to respond favorably to his request.
Administrative situation
If you are integrated into your host body or employment framework, you are removed from your original body and belong to your host body or employment framework.
You are integrated, in your body or in your host jobs with equivalence of rank. And you are classified at the step with an index equal to or, failing that, immediately higher than that which you hold, whichever is more favorable to you, in your home or posting body or framework.
Services performed in your home body are treated as services performed in your host body or job setting.
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