You can request availability to raise a child under the age of 12.

Who is involved?

You can request a lay-off only if you are permanent official.

This is not possible if you are a probationary public servant or if you are a contractual employee.

How long is the availability?

Availability to raise a child is granted for a maximum of 3 years.

At the end of the 3 years, availability is renewable for a period of up to 3 years until the child is 12 years old.

How do I apply?

You must request your lay-off by mail.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

There is no text setting out the time limit within which you must submit your request in advance.

You must attach to your application the necessary documents justifying the situation that allows you to benefit from availability.

Such availability shall be granted by right (i.e. the administration cannot refuse you).

You must justify at any time that your situation corresponds to the reasons for which you were granted availability.

The administration may carry out investigations.

Is availability paid?

You are no longer paid by your employer's administration for the duration of your availability.

You can see the Shared Child Education Benefit (PreParE) if you meet the conditions to take advantage of it.

What are the effects of availability?

Progress

If you are or have been on standby to raise a child since august 8, 2019, you retain your rights to advancement in step and grade during Maximum 5 years.

If you were on standby to raise a child before August 8, 2019, your standby periods were not considered for advancement.

If you benefit or have also benefited from a parental leave during your career, you retain your promotion rights for up to 5 years over all periods of availability to raise a child and parental leave.

Leave

While you are available, you can no longer take the following holidays:

• Annual leave and enhanced leave
• Regular, long-term or long-term sick leave
• Leave for temporary invalidity attributable to service (Citis)
• Maternity or adoption leave
• Leave for birth or adoption
• Paternity and childcare leave
• Vocational training leave
• Leave for validation of professional experience
• Skills Check Leave
• Family Solidarity Leave
• Caregiver leave
• Leave for union training
• Parental Leave

Social protection

You benefit, during 1 year, in case of sickness or maternity, daily allowances and reimbursement of your medical expenses.

It is your administration that pays the daily allowances and your CPAM: titleContent which ensures the reimbursement of your medical expenses.

At the end of the one-year period, you must request the universal disease protection (Puma).

Retirement

Periods of availability to raise a child, born or adopted on or after 1^er january 2004, are taken into account in the calculation of your number of pension insurance quarters, up to 3 years per child.

What is the process at the end of availability?

Application for renewal or reintegration

At least 3 months before your availability ends, you must inform your employer administration if you wish to renew your availability or rejoin your employment framework original.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

If your duties require special health conditions, your reinstatement is subject to prior checking of your fitness by a licensed medical practitioner and, if necessary, by the medical advice.

If you are fit to resume your duties

If your availability has not exceeded 6 months, you must be reinstated in your job framework and reassigned to your prior employment.

If your availability has been greater than 6 months, you are reinstated to your job cadre and reassigned to a job corresponding to your rank in your home community.

If you refuse the proposed job, you will be kept on standby until a job corresponding to your grade is vacant or created.

If you apply for reinstatement before the scheduled end date of your availability, you shall, in the absence of a vacancy, be kept on standby until your reinstatement.

If there is no vacant job at the end of your availability, you are kept in surplus for 1 year in your home community.

During this one-year period, your community offers you any job of your rank as a priority.

She also explores the possibility of detaching or integrating you directly into an equivalent job in another job cadre or in another public service.

At the end of the oversupply year, if you have not been reinstated, you are taken care of by the management center or the CNFPT: titleContent in the same conditions an official whose employment is terminated.

If you turn down 3 positions in succession, you can be dismissed after the opinion of the HEADING: titleContent.

Unemployment compensation in the event of continued lay-off

If you are kept on leave by your employer's administration because there is no job vacancy, you are considered to be involuntarily deprived of employment.

You can then collect unemployment benefits if you meet the conditions to take advantage of it.

It is considered that you meet the job search condition as long as your reintegration is not possible due to a lack of job vacancy.

If you are unable to resume your duties

If you are unable to resume your duties, whether you request your reinstatement on the scheduled date or early, you are placed in one of the following situations:

• Reclassification
• Office Lay-off
• Retirement in the event of permanent incapacity, or, if you are not entitled to a pension, dismissal

You can request an availability to provide care to a loved one following an accident or a serious illness or a disability requiring the presence of a third person.

This must be a dependent child, your spouse or partner of Civil partnerships: titleContent or a ascendant.

Who is involved?

You can request a lay-off only if you are permanent official.

This is not possible if you are a probationary public servant or if you are a contractual employee.

How long is the availability?

Availability to care for a loved one is granted for up to 3 years.

At the end of the 3 years, availability is renewable for a period of up to 3 years as long as the presence of a third person is necessary.

How do I apply?

You must request your lay-off by mail.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

There is no text setting out the time limit within which you must submit your request in advance.

You must attach to your application the necessary documents justifying the situation that allows you to benefit from availability.

Such availability shall be granted by right (i.e. the administration cannot refuse you).

You must justify at any time that your situation corresponds to the reasons for which you were granted availability.

The administration may carry out investigations.

Is availability paid?

You are no longer paid by your employer's administration for the duration of your availability.

When available to provide care to a dependent child, you can collect the Shared Child Education Benefit (PreParE), if you meet the conditions to take advantage of it.

When available to provide care to a ascendant who perceives the Apa or the PCH, you can, under certain conditions, use this benefit to pay you.

While you are available, you can also pursue a professional activity if this activity enables you to provide normal care for your sick or disabled family member.

The professional activity may be any gainful activity, whether employed or self-employed, carried out on a full-time or part-time basis.

This may be a contract activity in the public service (with an employer administration other than your employer administration as a public servant) or an activity in the private sector.

If the activity is carried out in the private sector, you must inform your employer administration.

This activity must be compatible with your functions in the previous 3 years.

If you are in paid employment, it must represent a working time of at least 600 hours per year.

If you are self-employed, it must provide you with an annual gross income of at least €6,762.

What are the effects of availability?

Progress

While you are available, you cease to enjoy your rights to advancement in step or grade.

However, if you are or have been on standby to provide care to a loved one since august 8, 2019 and if you are or have been employed, you retain your rights to advancement in step and grade for up to 5 years.

If you were on leave to care for a loved one before August 8, 2019, your periods of leave were not considered for advancement.

In order to retain your rights to advancement in step and grade, you must send each year, no later than 1 January, to your administration the supporting documents for your activity.

If the advancement in your rank is subject to the prior occupation of certain jobs or functions, your period of service may be taken into account to fulfill this condition.

Your business must be comparable to those jobs and functions in terms of the nature of the business or the level of responsibility exercised.

It's the special status your body which defines the conditions under which this professional activity can be taken into account.

Leave

While you are available, you can no longer take the following holidays:

• Annual leave and enhanced leave
• Regular, long-term or long-term sick leave
• Leave for temporary invalidity attributable to service (Citis)
• Maternity or adoption leave
• Leave for birth or adoption
• Paternity and childcare leave
• Vocational training leave
• Leave for validation of professional experience
• Skills Check Leave
• Family Solidarity Leave
• Caregiver leave
• Leave for union training
• Parental Leave

Social protection

Retirement

Your periods of availability are not taken into account for your public servant retirement.

However, if you are engaged in another gainful occupation while you are available, you will acquire pension rights from the pension scheme under which that occupation is carried out.

What is the process at the end of availability?

Application for renewal or reintegration

At least 3 months before your availability ends, you must inform your employer administration if you wish to renew your availability or rejoin your employment framework original.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

If your duties require special health conditions, your reinstatement is subject to prior checking of your fitness by a licensed medical practitioner and, if necessary, by the medical advice.

If you are fit to resume your duties

If your availability has not exceeded 6 months, you must be reinstated in your job framework and reassigned to your prior employment.

If your availability has been greater than 6 months, you are reinstated to your job cadre and reassigned to a job corresponding to your rank in your home community.

If you refuse the proposed job, you will be kept on standby until a job corresponding to your grade is vacant or created.

If you apply for reinstatement before the scheduled end date of your availability, you shall, in the absence of a vacancy, be kept on standby until your reinstatement.

If there is no vacant job at the end of your availability, you are kept in surplus for 1 year in your home community.

During this one-year period, your community offers you any job of your rank as a priority.

She also explores the possibility of detaching or integrating you directly into an equivalent job in another job cadre or in another public service.

At the end of the oversupply year, if you have not been reinstated, you are taken care of by the management center or the CNFPT: titleContent in the same conditions an official whose employment is terminated.

If you turn down 3 positions in succession, you can be dismissed after the opinion of the HEADING: titleContent.

Unemployment compensation in the event of continued lay-off

If you are kept on leave by your employer's administration because there is no job vacancy, you are considered to be involuntarily deprived of employment.

You can then collect unemployment benefits if you meet the conditions to take advantage of it.

It is considered that you meet the job search condition as long as your reintegration is not possible due to a lack of job vacancy.

If you are unable to resume your duties

If you are unable to resume your duties, whether you request your reinstatement on the scheduled date or early, you are placed in one of the following situations:

• Reclassification
• Office Lay-off
• Retirement in the event of permanent incapacity, or, if you are not entitled to a pension, dismissal

You can request availability to follow your spouse or partner Civil partnerships: titleContent if he finds himself obliged to move for professional reasons.

Who is involved?

You can request a lay-off only if you are permanent official.

This is not possible if you are a probationary public servant or if you are a contractual employee.

How long is the availability?

Availability to follow one's Civil partnership or partner is granted for up to 3 years.

At the end of the 3 years, availability is renewable for a period of up to 3 years as long as your Civil partnership or partner is obliged to reside in a location away from your administrative residence.

How do I apply?

You must request your lay-off by mail.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

There is no text setting out the time limit within which you must submit your request in advance.

You must attach to your application the necessary documents justifying the situation that allows you to benefit from availability.

Such availability shall be granted by right (i.e. the administration cannot refuse you).

You must justify at any time that your situation corresponds to the reasons for which you were granted availability.

The administration may carry out investigations.

Is availability paid?

You are no longer paid by your employer's administration for the duration of your availability.

However, you can carry out a professional activity while you are available.

The professional activity may be any gainful activity, whether employed or self-employed, carried out on a full-time or part-time basis.

This may be a contract activity in the public service (with an employer administration other than your employer administration as a public servant) or an activity in the private sector.

If the activity is carried out in the private sector, you must inform your employer administration.

This activity must be compatible with your functions in the previous 3 years.

If you are in paid employment, it must represent a working time of at least 600 hours per year.

If you are self-employed, it must provide you with an annual gross income of at least €6,762.

What are the effects of availability?

Progress

While you are available, you cease to enjoy your rights to advancement in step or grade.

However, if you are or have been on standby to follow your Civil partnership or partner since august 8, 2019 and if you are or have been employed, you retain your rights to advancement in step and grade for up to 5 years.

If you were on standby to follow your Civil partnership or partner before August 8, 2019, your standby periods were not considered for advancement.

In order to retain your rights to advancement in step and grade, you must send each year, no later than 1 January, to your administration the supporting documents for your activity.

If the advancement in your rank is subject to the prior occupation of certain jobs or functions, your period of service may be taken into account to fulfill this condition.

Your business must be comparable to those jobs and functions in terms of the nature of the business or the level of responsibility exercised.

It's the special status your body which defines the conditions under which this professional activity can be taken into account.

Leave

While you are available, you can no longer take the following holidays:

• Annual leave and enhanced leave
• Regular, long-term or long-term sick leave
• Leave for temporary invalidity attributable to service (Citis)
• Maternity or adoption leave
• Leave for birth or adoption
• Paternity and childcare leave
• Vocational training leave
• Leave for validation of professional experience
• Skills Check Leave
• Family Solidarity Leave
• Caregiver leave
• Leave for union training
• Parental Leave

Social protection

Retirement

Your periods of availability are not taken into account for your public servant retirement.

However, if you are engaged in another gainful occupation while you are available, you will acquire pension rights from the pension scheme under which that occupation is carried out.

What is the process at the end of availability?

Application for renewal or reintegration

At least 3 months before your availability ends, you must inform your employer administration if you wish to renew your availability or rejoin your employment framework original.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

If your duties require special health conditions, your reinstatement is subject to prior checking of your fitness by a licensed medical practitioner and, if necessary, by the medical advice.

If you are fit to resume your duties

If your availability has not exceeded 6 months, you must be reinstated to your job and reassigned to your previous job.

If your availability was more than 6 months and less than 3 years, you're reinstated to your job cadre and reassigned to job 1^re vacancy or job creation in your rank in your home community

If you refuse the proposed job, you will be kept on standby until a job corresponding to your grade is vacant or created.

If you apply for reinstatement before the scheduled end date of your availability, you shall, in the absence of a vacancy, be kept on standby until your reinstatement.

If there is no vacant job at the end of your availability, you are kept in surplus for 1 year in your home community.

During this one-year period, your community offers you any job of your rank as a priority.

She also explores the possibility of detaching or integrating you directly into an equivalent job in another job cadre or in another public service.

At the end of the oversupply year, if you have not been reinstated, you are taken care of by the management center or the CNFPT: titleContent in the same conditions an official whose employment is terminated.

If you turn down 3 positions in succession, you can be dismissed after the opinion of the HEADING: titleContent.

If your availability has been greater than 3 years, you are reinstated to one of the first 3 job vacancies in your community.

Unemployment compensation in the event of continued lay-off

If you are kept on leave by your employer's administration because there is no job vacancy, you are considered to be involuntarily deprived of employment.

You can then collect unemployment benefits if you meet the conditions to take advantage of it.

It is considered that you meet the job search condition as long as your reintegration is not possible due to a lack of job vacancy.

If you are unable to resume your duties

If you are unable to resume your duties, whether you request your reinstatement on the scheduled date or early, you are placed in one of the following situations:

• Reclassification
• Office Lay-off
• Retirement in the event of permanent incapacity, or, if you are not entitled to a pension, dismissal

If you hold an approval issued by anAse: titleContent, you can request an availability to go to a Drom: titleContent, a overseas collectivity, in New Caledonia or abroad with a view to the adoption of one or more children.

Who is involved?

You can request a lay-off only if you are permanent official.

This is not possible if you are a probationary public servant or if you are a contractual employee.

How long is the availability?

Availability for the adoption of one or more children is granted for a maximum of 6 weeks per approval.

How do I apply?

You must request your lay-off by mail by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt at least 2 weeks before departure.

Your mail should specify the start date and the expected duration of availability.

You must justify at any time that your situation corresponds to the reasons for which availability was granted.The administration can carry out investigations.

Is availability paid?

You are no longer paid by your employer's administration for the duration of your availability.

What are the effects of availability?

Progress

While you are available, you cease to enjoy your rights to advancement in step or grade.

Leave

While you are available, you can no longer take the following holidays:

• Annual leave and enhanced leave
• Regular, long-term or long-term sick leave
• Leave for temporary invalidity attributable to service (Citis)
• Maternity or adoption leave
• Leave for birth or adoption
• Paternity and childcare leave
• Vocational training leave
• Leave for validation of professional experience
• Skills Check Leave
• Family Solidarity Leave
• Caregiver leave
• Leave for union training
• Parental Leave

Social protection

You are entitled to sickness, daily allowances and reimbursement of your medical expenses.

It is your administration that pays the daily allowances and your CPAM: titleContent which ensures the reimbursement of your medical expenses.

Retirement

Your period of availability is not considered for your retirement

What is the process at the end of availability?

You are reinstated and reassigned to your previous job whether you request your reinstatement on the scheduled date or early.

You can request availability for personal convenience.

Who is involved?

You can request a lay-off only if you are permanent official.

This is not possible if you are a probationary public servant or if you are a contractual employee.

How long is the availability?

Availability for personal convenience is granted for a maximum of 5 years.

Availability is renewable up to a maximum of 10 years for your entire career.

However, since march 29, 2019if you spend 5 consecutive years on personal leave, you can only renew your leave if you first return to the public service for at least 18 months.

If you accumulate an availability to create or resume a company with availability for personal convenience, the accumulated length of the 2 availabilities cannot exceed 5 years if it is 1^re period of availability.

How do I apply?

You must request your lay-off by mail.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

There is no text setting out the time limit within which you must submit your request in advance.

Your employer authority can only object to your request for lay-off because of the service requirements or, where appropriate, an opinion delivered by the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life.

However, she may require you to meet a 3-month deadline before leaving on leave.

If your administration does not reply to your request for lay-off within 2 months of the date of receipt of your request, it shall be deemed to have been accepted.

Is availability paid?

You are no longer paid by your employer's administration for the duration of your availability.

However, you can carry out a professional activity while you are available.

The professional activity may be any gainful activity, whether employed or self-employed, carried out on a full-time or part-time basis.

This may be a contract activity in the public service (with an employer administration other than your employer administration as a public servant) or an activity in the private sector.

If the activity is carried out in the private sector, you must inform your employer administration.

This activity must be compatible with your functions in the previous 3 years.

If you are in paid employment, it must represent a working time of at least 600 hours per year.

If you are self-employed, it must provide you with an annual gross income of at least €6,762.

What are the effects of availability?

Progress

While you are available, you cease to enjoy your rights to advancement in step or grade.

However, if you are or have been on standby for personal convenience since august 8, 2019 and if you are or have been employed, you retain your rights to advancement in step and grade for up to 5 years.

If you were on standby to follow your Civil partnership or partner before August 8, 2019, your standby periods were not considered for advancement.

In order to retain your rights to advancement in step and grade, you must submit each year, no later than 1^er January, to your administration of the supporting documents of your activity.

If the advancement in your rank is subject to the prior occupation of certain jobs or functions, your period of service may be taken into account to fulfill this condition.

Your business must be comparable to those jobs and functions in terms of the nature of the business or the level of responsibility exercised.

It's the special status your body which defines the conditions under which this professional activity can be taken into account.

Leave

While you are available, you can no longer take the following holidays:

• Annual leave and enhanced leave
• Regular, long-term or long-term sick leave
• Leave for temporary invalidity attributable to service (Citis)
• Maternity or adoption leave
• Leave for birth or adoption
• Paternity and childcare leave
• Vocational training leave
• Leave for validation of professional experience
• Skills Check Leave
• Family Solidarity Leave
• Caregiver leave
• Leave for union training
• Parental Leave

Social protection

Retirement

Your periods of availability are not taken into account for your public servant retirement.

However, if you are engaged in another gainful occupation while you are available, you will acquire pension rights from the pension scheme under which that occupation is carried out.

What is the process at the end of availability?

Application for renewal or reintegration

At least 3 months before your availability ends, you must inform your employer administration if you wish to renew your availability or rejoin your employment framework original.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

If your duties require special health conditions, your reinstatement is subject to prior checking of your fitness by a licensed medical practitioner and, if necessary, by the medical advice.

If you are fit to resume your duties

If your availability has not exceeded 3 years, you are reinstated on one of the first 3 job vacancies in your home community.

If your availability has been greater than 3 years, there is no provision for the conditions of reinstatement.

If you apply for reinstatement before the scheduled end date of your availability, you shall, in the absence of a vacancy, be kept on standby until your reinstatement.

If there is no vacancy, you are kept on standby until a job corresponding to your grade is vacant or created.

You can also apply for reinstatement by transfer to a community other than your home community.

If you turn down 3 positions in succession, you can be dismissed after the opinion of the HEADING: titleContent.

Unemployment compensation in the event of continued lay-off

If you are kept on leave by your employer's administration because there is no job vacancy, you are considered to be involuntarily deprived of employment.

You can then collect unemployment benefits if you meet the conditions to take advantage of it.

It is considered that you meet the job search condition as long as your reintegration is not possible due to a lack of job vacancy.

If you are unable to resume your duties

If you are unable to resume your duties, whether you request your reinstatement on the scheduled date or early, you are placed in one of the following situations:

• Reclassification
• Office Lay-off
• Retirement in the event of permanent incapacity, or, if you are not entitled to a pension, dismissal

You can request availability to create or resume a company.

This activity must be compatible with your functions in the previous 3 years.

Who is involved?

You can request a lay-off only if you are permanent official.

This is not possible if you are a probationary public servant or if you are a contractual employee.

How long is the availability?

Availability to create or take over a company is granted for up to 2 years.

At the end of the 2 years, availability is not renewable.

How do I apply?

You must request your lay-off by mail.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

There is no text setting out the time limit within which you must submit your request in advance.

Your employer authority can only object to your request for lay-off because of the service requirements or, where appropriate, an opinion delivered by the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life.

However, she may require you to meet a 3-month deadline before leaving on leave.

If your administration does not reply to your request for lay-off within 2 months of the date of receipt of your request, it shall be deemed to have been accepted.

You must justify at any time that your situation corresponds to the reasons for which you were granted availability.

The administration may carry out investigations.

Is availability paid?

You are no longer paid by your employer's administration for the duration of your availability.

If you are an employee, it must represent a working time of at least 600 hours per year.

If you are self-employed, it must provide you with an annual gross income of at least €6,762.

What are the effects of availability?

Progress

If you are or have been on standby to create or resume a company since august 8, 2019, you retain your rights to advancement in step and grade for up to 5 years.

If you were on standby to create or resume a company before August 8, 2019, your standby periods were not considered for advancement.

In order to retain your rights to advancement in step and grade, you must send each year, no later than 31 May, to your administration the supporting documents for your activity.

If the advancement in your rank is subject to the prior occupation of certain jobs or functions, your period of service may be taken into account to fulfill this condition.

Your business must be comparable to those jobs and functions in terms of the nature of the business or the level of responsibility exercised.

It's the special status your body which defines the conditions under which this professional activity can be taken into account.

Leave

While you are available, you can no longer take the following holidays:

• Annual leave and enhanced leave
• Regular, long-term or long-term sick leave
• Leave for temporary invalidity attributable to service (Citis)
• Maternity or adoption leave
• Leave for birth or adoption
• Paternity and childcare leave
• Vocational training leave
• Leave for validation of professional experience
• Skills Check Leave
• Family Solidarity Leave
• Caregiver leave
• Leave for union training
• Parental Leave

Social protection

You are covered by the social protection scheme of your professional activity.

Retirement

Your periods of availability are not taken into account for your public servant retirement.

But you acquire pension rights from the pension plan under which you operate.

What is the process at the end of availability?

Application for renewal or reintegration

At least 3 months before your availability ends, you must inform your employer administration if you wish to renew your availability or rejoin your employment framework original.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

If your duties require special health conditions, your reinstatement is subject to prior checking of your fitness by a licensed medical practitioner and, if necessary, by the medical advice.

If you are fit to resume your duties

You are reinstated on one of the first 3 job vacancies in your home community.

If you apply for reinstatement before the scheduled end date of your availability, you shall, in the absence of a vacancy, be kept on standby until your reinstatement.

If there is no vacancy, you are kept on standby until a job corresponding to your grade is vacant or created.

You can also apply for reinstatement by transfer to a community other than your home community.

If you turn down 3 positions in succession, you can be dismissed after the opinion of the HEADING: titleContent.

Unemployment compensation in the event of continued lay-off

If you are kept on leave by your employer's administration because there is no job vacancy, you are considered to be involuntarily deprived of employment.

You can then collect unemployment benefits if you meet the conditions to take advantage of it.

It is considered that you meet the job search condition as long as your reintegration is not possible due to a lack of job vacancy.

If you are unable to resume your duties

If you are unable to resume your duties, whether you request your reinstatement on the scheduled date or early, you are placed in one of the following situations:

• Reclassification
• Office Lay-off
• Retirement in the event of permanent incapacity, or, if you are not entitled to a pension, dismissal

You may request availability to conduct studies or research of general interest to extend or enhance your personal training.

This availability is part of personal training.

It may be granted to you to allow you to satisfy professional or personal projects.

The general interest of studies or research is appreciated by your employer administration.

There is no regulatory definition of the concept of the public interest.

However, the general interest may be recognized in studies and research which are likely to advance knowledge in a specific field and which are of general interest to the administration or the community in scientific, historical or cultural matters.

Who is involved?

You can request a lay-off only if you are permanent official.

This is not possible if you are a probationary public servant or if you are a contractual employee.

How long is the availability?

Availability for studies or research of general interest is granted for a maximum of 3 years.

At the end of the 3 years, the availability is renewable for a maximum of 3 years.

How do I apply?

You must request your lay-off by mail.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

There is no text setting out the time limit within which you must submit your request in advance.

Your employer authority can only object to your request for lay-off because of the service requirements.

However, she may require you to meet a 3-month deadline before leaving on leave.

If your administration does not reply to your request for lay-off within 2 months of the date of receipt of your request, it shall be deemed to have been accepted.

You must justify at any time that your situation corresponds to the reasons for which you were granted availability.

The administration may carry out investigations.

Is availability paid?

You are no longer paid by your employer's administration for the duration of your availability.

However, you may, within the limits of the budget appropriations available, enter into a study contract with the administration.

This study contract gives rise to a lump sum payment by your administration.

The amount of this lump sum allowance is equal to your index treatment and to your residence allowance (if you receive this compensation top-up) on the date the contract was awarded.

The study contract is awarded for a maximum period of one year, renewable.

The lump sum allowance is paid quarterly.

You must provide your administration with a certificate of attendance or actual participation in the work.

You must commit to remain in government service for a period equal to three times the duration of the study contract.

What are the effects of availability?

Progress

If you are or have been available for study or research since august 8, 2019, you retain your rights to advancement in step and grade for up to 5 years.

If you were on study or research leave before August 8, 2019, your leave periods were not considered for advancement.

Leave

While you are available, you can no longer take the following holidays:

• Annual leave and enhanced leave
• Regular, long-term or long-term sick leave
• Leave for temporary invalidity attributable to service (Citis)
• Maternity or adoption leave
• Leave for birth or adoption
• Paternity and childcare leave
• Vocational training leave
• Leave for validation of professional experience
• Skills Check Leave
• Family Solidarity Leave
• Caregiver leave
• Leave for union training
• Parental Leave

Social protection

You benefit, during 1 year, in case of sickness or maternity, daily allowances and reimbursement of your medical expenses.

It is your administration that pays the daily allowances and your CPAM: titleContent which ensures the reimbursement of your medical expenses.

At the end of the one-year period, you must request the universal disease protection (Puma).

Retirement

Your periods of availability are not taken into account for your public servant retirement.

What is the process at the end of availability?

Application for renewal or reintegration

At least 3 months before your availability ends, you must inform your employer administration if you wish to renew your availability or rejoin your employment framework original.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

If your duties require special health conditions, your reinstatement is subject to prior checking of your fitness by a licensed medical practitioner and, if necessary, by the medical advice.

If you are fit to resume your duties

If your availability has not exceeded 3 years, you are reinstated on one of the first 3 job vacancies in your home community.

If your availability has been greater than 3 years, there is no provision for the conditions of reinstatement.

If you apply for reinstatement before the scheduled end date of your availability, you shall, in the absence of a vacancy, be kept on standby until your reinstatement.

If there is no vacancy, you are kept on standby until a job corresponding to your grade is vacant or created.

You can also apply for reinstatement by transfer to a community other than your home community.

If you turn down 3 positions in succession, you can be dismissed after the opinion of the HEADING: titleContent.

Unemployment compensation in the event of continued lay-off

If you are kept on leave by your employer's administration because there is no job vacancy, you are considered to be involuntarily deprived of employment.

You can then collect unemployment benefits if you meet the conditions to take advantage of it.

It is considered that you meet the job search condition as long as your reintegration is not possible due to a lack of job vacancy.

If you are unable to resume your duties

If you are unable to resume your duties, whether you request your reinstatement on the scheduled date or early, you are placed in one of the following situations:

• Reclassification
• Office Lay-off
• Retirement in the event of permanent incapacity, or, if you are not entitled to a pension, dismissal

You can request availability to serve as a local elected official.

What's this about?

You can benefit from an availability if you are elected local.

Who is involved?

You can request a lay-off only if you are permanent official.

This is not possible if you are a probationary public servant or if you are a contractual employee.

How long is the availability?

Availability to serve as a local elected official is granted for the duration of the term.

How do I apply?

You must request your lay-off by mail.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

There is no text setting out the time limit within which you must submit your request in advance.

You must attach to your application the necessary documents justifying the situation that allows you to benefit from availability.

Such availability shall be granted by right (i.e. the administration cannot refuse you).

You must justify at any time that your situation corresponds to the reasons for which you were granted availability.

The administration may carry out investigations.

Is availability paid?

You are no longer paid by your employer's administration for the duration of your availability.

You can collect a allowance according to your mandate.

What are the effects of availability?

Progress

While you are available, you cease to enjoy your rights to advancement in step or grade.

Leave

While you are available, you can no longer take the following holidays:

• Annual leave and enhanced leave
• Regular, long-term or long-term sick leave
• Leave for temporary invalidity attributable to service (Citis)
• Maternity or adoption leave
• Leave for birth or adoption
• Paternity and childcare leave
• Vocational training leave
• Leave for validation of professional experience
• Skills Check Leave
• Family Solidarity Leave
• Caregiver leave
• Leave for union training
• Parental Leave

Social protection

You are member of the general social security scheme to the CPAM: titleContent of your place of residence.

Retirement

Your period of availability is not taken into account for your retirement as a public servant.

However, you are affiliated to the Social Security Old Age Insurance and Ircantec.

What is the process at the end of availability?

Application for renewal or reintegration

At least 3 months before your availability ends, you must inform your employer administration if you wish to renew your availability or rejoin your employment framework original.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

If your duties require special health conditions, your reinstatement is subject to prior checking of your fitness by a licensed medical practitioner and, if necessary, by the medical advice.

If you are fit to resume your duties

If your availability has not exceeded 3 years, you are reinstated on one of the first 3 job vacancies in your home community.

If your availability has been greater than 3 years, there is no provision for the conditions of reinstatement.

If you apply for reinstatement before the scheduled end date of your availability, you shall, in the absence of a vacancy, be kept on standby until your reinstatement.

If there is no vacancy, you are kept on standby until a job corresponding to your grade is vacant or created.

You can also apply for reinstatement by transfer to a community other than your home community.

If you turn down 3 positions in succession, you can be dismissed after the opinion of the HEADING: titleContent.

Unemployment compensation in the event of continued lay-off

If you are kept on leave by your employer's administration because there is no job vacancy, you are considered to be involuntarily deprived of employment.

You can then collect unemployment benefits if you meet the conditions to take advantage of it.

It is considered that you meet the job search condition as long as your reintegration is not possible due to a lack of job vacancy.

If you are unable to resume your duties

If you are unable to resume your duties, whether you request your reinstatement on the scheduled date or early, you are placed in one of the following situations:

• Reclassification
• Office Lay-off
• Retirement in the event of permanent incapacity, or, if you are not entitled to a pension, dismissal

You can request availability to raise a child under the age of 12.

Who is involved?

You can request a lay-off only if you are permanent official.

This is not possible if you are a probationary public servant or if you are a contractual employee.

How long is the availability?

Availability to raise a child is granted for a maximum of 3 years.

At the end of the 3 years, availability is renewable for a period of up to 3 years until the child is 12 years old.

How do I apply?

You must request your lay-off by mail.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

There is no text setting out the time limit within which you must submit your request in advance.

You must attach to your application the necessary documents justifying the situation that allows you to benefit from availability.

Such availability shall be granted by right (i.e. the administration cannot refuse you).

You must justify at any time that your situation corresponds to the reasons for which you were granted availability.

The administration may carry out investigations.

Is availability paid?

You are no longer paid by your employer's administration for the duration of your availability.

You can see the Shared Child Education Benefit (PreParE), if you meet the conditions to take advantage of it.

What are the effects of availability?

Progress

If you are or have been on standby to raise a child since august 8, 2019, you retain your rights to advancement in step and grade for up to 5 years.

If you were on standby to raise a child before August 8, 2019, your standby periods were not considered for advancement.

If you benefit or have also benefited from a parental leave during your career, you retain your promotion rights for up to 5 years over all periods of availability to raise a child and parental leave.

Leave

While you are available, you can no longer take the following holidays:

• Annual leave and enhanced leave
• Regular, long-term or long-term sick leave
• Leave for temporary invalidity attributable to service (Citis)
• Maternity or adoption leave
• Leave for birth or adoption
• Paternity and childcare leave
• Vocational training leave
• Leave for validation of professional experience
• Skills Check Leave
• Family Solidarity Leave
• Caregiver leave
• Leave for union training
• Parental Leave

Social protection

You benefit, during 1 year, in case of sickness or maternity, daily allowances and reimbursement of your medical expenses.

It is your administration that pays the daily allowances and your CPAM: titleContent which ensures the reimbursement of your medical expenses.

At the end of the one-year period, you must request the universal disease protection (Puma).

Retirement

Periods of availability to raise a child, born or adopted on or after 1^er january 2004, are taken into account in the calculation of your number of pension insurance quarters, up to 3 years per child.

What is the process at the end of availability?

Application for renewal or reintegration

At least 2 months before your availability ends, you must inform your employer administration if you wish to renew your availability or rejoin your body of membership.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

If you do not apply for renewal or reinstatement, you are removed from the executive ranks at the end of your availability, that is, you will lose your status as a public servant.

If your duties require special health conditions, your reinstatement is subject to prior checking of your fitness by a licensed medical practitioner and, if necessary, by the medical advice.

If you are fit to resume your duties

If your availability is less than 3 years, you must be reinstated to the 1^re vacancy in your grade.

If you refuse the proposed job, you are kept on standby until a new job is vacant or created. 

If there is no vacancy, you will be kept on standby until you are reinstated and at the latest until 3 positions have been offered to you.

If your availability is greater than 3 years, no text sets out the conditions for reintegration.

If you turn down 3 positions in succession, you can be dismissed after the opinion of the HEADING: titleContent.

Unemployment compensation in the event of continued lay-off

If you are kept on leave by your employer's administration because there is no job vacancy, you are considered to be involuntarily deprived of employment.

You can then collect unemployment benefits if you meet the conditions to take advantage of it.

It is considered that you meet the job search condition as long as your reintegration is not possible due to a lack of job vacancy.

If you are unable to resume your duties

If you are unable to resume your duties, whether you request your reinstatement on the scheduled date or early, you are placed in one of the following situations:

• Reclassification
• Office Lay-off
• Retirement in the event of permanent incapacity, or, if you are not entitled to a pension, dismissal

You can request an availability to provide care to a loved one following an accident or a serious illness or a disability requiring the presence of a third person.

This must be a dependent child, your spouse or partner of Civil partnerships: titleContent or a ascendant.

Who is involved?

You can request a lay-off only if you are permanent official.

This is not possible if you are a probationary public servant or if you are a contractual employee.

How long is the availability?

Availability to care for a loved one is granted for up to 3 years.

At the end of the 3 years, availability is renewable for a period of up to 3 years as long as the presence of a third person is necessary.

How do I apply?

You must request your lay-off by mail.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

There is no text setting out the time limit within which you must submit your request in advance.

You must attach to your application the necessary documents justifying the situation that allows you to benefit from availability.

Such availability shall be granted by right (i.e. the administration cannot refuse you).

You must justify at any time that your situation corresponds to the reasons for which you were granted availability.

The administration may carry out investigations.

Is availability paid?

You are no longer paid by your employer's administration for the duration of your availability.

When available to provide care to a dependent child, you can collect the Shared Child Education Benefit (PreParE), if you meet the conditions to take advantage of it.

When available to provide care to a ascendant who perceives the Apa or the PCH, you can, under certain conditions, use this benefit to pay you.

While you are available, you can also pursue a professional activity if this activity enables you to provide normal care for your sick or disabled family member.

The professional activity may be any gainful activity, whether employed or self-employed, carried out on a full-time or part-time basis.

This may be a contract activity in the public service (with an employer administration other than your employer administration as a public servant) or an activity in the private sector.

If the activity is carried out in the private sector, you must inform your employer administration.

This activity must be compatible with your functions in the previous 3 years.

If you are in paid employment, it must represent a working time of at least 600 hours per year.

If you are self-employed, it must provide you with an annual gross income of at least €6,762.

What are the effects of availability?

Progress

While you are available, you cease to enjoy your rights to advancement in step or grade.

However, if you are or have been on standby to provide care to a loved one since august 8, 2019 and if you are or have been employed, you retain your rights to advancement in step and grade for up to 5 years.

If you were on leave to care for a loved one before August 8, 2019, your periods of leave were not considered for advancement.

In order to retain your rights to advancement in step and grade, you must send each year, no later than 31 May, to your administration the supporting documents for your activity.

If the advancement in your rank is subject to the prior occupation of certain jobs or functions, your period of service may be taken into account to fulfill this condition.

Your business must be comparable to those jobs and functions in terms of the nature of the business or the level of responsibility exercised.

It's the special status your body which defines the conditions under which this professional activity can be taken into account.

Leave

While you are available, you can no longer take the following holidays:

• Annual leave and enhanced leave
• Regular, long-term or long-term sick leave
• Leave for temporary invalidity attributable to service (Citis)
• Maternity or adoption leave
• Leave for birth or adoption
• Paternity and childcare leave
• Vocational training leave
• Leave for validation of professional experience
• Skills Check Leave
• Family Solidarity Leave
• Caregiver leave
• Leave for union training
• Parental Leave

Social protection

Retirement

Your periods of availability are not taken into account for your public servant retirement.

However, if you are engaged in another gainful occupation while you are available, you will acquire pension rights from the pension scheme under which that occupation is carried out.

What is the process at the end of availability?

Application for renewal or reintegration

At least 2 months before your availability ends, you must inform your employer administration if you wish to renew your availability or rejoin your body of membership.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

If you do not apply for renewal or reinstatement, you are removed from the executive ranks at the end of your availability, that is, you will lose your status as a public servant.

If your duties require special health conditions, your reinstatement is subject to prior checking of your fitness by a licensed medical practitioner and, if necessary, by the medical advice.

If you are fit to resume your duties

If your availability is less than 3 years, you must be reinstated to the 1^re vacancy in your grade.

If you refuse the proposed job, you are kept on standby until a new job is vacant or created. 

If there is no vacancy, you will be kept on standby until you are reinstated and at the latest until 3 positions have been offered to you.

If your availability is greater than 3 years, no text sets out the conditions for reintegration.

If you turn down 3 positions in succession, you can be dismissed after the opinion of the HEADING: titleContent.

Unemployment compensation in the event of continued lay-off

If you are kept on leave by your employer's administration because there is no job vacancy, you are considered to be involuntarily deprived of employment.

You can then collect unemployment benefits if you meet the conditions to take advantage of it.

It is considered that you meet the job search condition as long as your reintegration is not possible due to a lack of job vacancy.

If you are unable to resume your duties

If you are unable to resume your duties, whether you request your reinstatement on the scheduled date or early, you are placed in one of the following situations:

• Reclassification
• Office Lay-off
• Retirement in the event of permanent incapacity, or, if you are not entitled to a pension, dismissal

You can request availability to follow your spouse or partner Civil partnerships: titleContent if he finds himself obliged to move for professional reasons.

Who is involved?

You can request a lay-off only if you are permanent official.

This is not possible if you are a probationary public servant or if you are a contractual employee.

How long is the availability?

Availability to follow one's Civil partnership or partner is granted for up to 3 years.

At the end of the 3 years, availability is renewable for a period of up to 3 years as long as your Civil partnership or partner is obliged to reside in a location away from your administrative residence.

How do I apply?

You must request your lay-off by mail.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

There is no text setting out the time limit within which you must submit your request in advance.

You must attach to your application the necessary documents justifying the situation that allows you to benefit from availability.

Such availability shall be granted by right (i.e. the administration cannot refuse you).

You must justify at any time that your situation corresponds to the reasons for which you were granted availability.

The administration may carry out investigations.

Is availability paid?

You are no longer paid by your employer's administration for the duration of your availability.

However, you can carry out a professional activity while you are available.

The professional activity may be any gainful activity, whether employed or self-employed, carried out on a full-time or part-time basis.

This may be a contract activity in the public service (with an employer administration other than your employer administration as a public servant) or an activity in the private sector.

If the activity is carried out in the private sector, you must inform your employer administration.

This activity must be compatible with your functions in the previous 3 years.

If you are in paid employment, it must represent a working time of at least 600 hours per year.

If you are self-employed, it must provide you with an annual gross income of at least €6,762.

What are the effects of availability?

Progress

While you are available, you cease to enjoy your rights to advancement in step or grade.

However, if you are or have been on standby to follow your Civil partnership or partner since august 8, 2019 and if you are or have been employed, you retain your rights to advancement in step and grade for up to 5 years.

If you were on standby to follow your Civil partnership or partner before August 8, 2019, your standby periods were not considered for advancement.

In order to retain your rights to advancement in step and grade, you must send each year, no later than 31 May, to your administration the supporting documents for your activity.

If the advancement in your rank is subject to the prior occupation of certain jobs or functions, your period of service may be taken into account to fulfill this condition.

Your business must be comparable to those jobs and functions in terms of the nature of the business or the level of responsibility exercised.

It's the special status your body which defines the conditions under which this professional activity can be taken into account.

Leave

While you are available, you can no longer take the following holidays:

• Annual leave and enhanced leave
• Regular, long-term or long-term sick leave
• Leave for temporary invalidity attributable to service (Citis)
• Maternity or adoption leave
• Leave for birth or adoption
• Paternity and childcare leave
• Vocational training leave
• Leave for validation of professional experience
• Skills Check Leave
• Family Solidarity Leave
• Caregiver leave
• Leave for union training
• Parental Leave

Social protection

Retirement

Your periods of availability are not taken into account for your public servant retirement.

However, if you are engaged in another gainful occupation while you are available, you will acquire pension rights from the pension scheme under which that occupation is carried out.

What is the process at the end of availability?

Application for renewal or reintegration

At least 2 months before your availability ends, you must inform your employer administration if you wish to renew your availability or rejoin your body of membership.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

If you do not apply for renewal or reinstatement, you are removed from the executive ranks at the end of your availability, that is, you will lose your status as a public servant.

If your duties require special health conditions, your reinstatement is subject to prior checking of your fitness by a licensed medical practitioner and, if necessary, by the medical advice.

If you are fit to resume your duties

If your availability is less than 3 years, you must be reinstated to the 1^re vacancy in your grade.

If you refuse the proposed job, you are kept on standby until a new job is vacant or created. 

If there is no vacancy, you will be kept on standby until you are reinstated and at the latest until 3 positions have been offered to you.

If your availability is greater than 3 years, no text sets out the conditions for reintegration.

If you turn down 3 positions in succession, you can be dismissed after the opinion of the HEADING: titleContent.

Unemployment compensation in the event of continued lay-off

If you are kept on leave by your employer's administration because there is no job vacancy, you are considered to be involuntarily deprived of employment.

You can then collect unemployment benefits if you meet the conditions to take advantage of it.

It is considered that you meet the job search condition as long as your reintegration is not possible due to a lack of job vacancy.

If you are unable to resume your duties

If you are unable to resume your duties, whether you request your reinstatement on the scheduled date or early, you are placed in one of the following situations:

• Reclassification
• Office Lay-off
• Retirement in the event of permanent incapacity, or, if you are not entitled to a pension, dismissal

If you hold an approval issued by anAse: titleContent, you can request an availability to go to a Drom: titleContent, a overseas collectivity, in New Caledonia or abroad with a view to the adoption of one or more children.

Who is involved?

You can request a lay-off only if you are permanent official.

This is not possible if you are a probationary public servant or if you are a contractual employee.

How long is the availability?

Availability for the adoption of one or more children is granted for a maximum of 6 weeks per approval.

How do I apply?

You must request your lay-off by mail.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

There is no text setting out the time limit within which you must submit your request in advance.

You must attach to your application the necessary documents justifying the situation that allows you to benefit from availability.

Such availability shall be granted by right (i.e. the administration cannot refuse you).

You must justify at any time that your situation corresponds to the reasons for which you were granted availability.

The administration may carry out investigations.

Is availability paid?

You are no longer paid by your employer's administration for the duration of your availability.

What are the effects of availability?

Progress

While you are available, you cease to enjoy your rights to advancement in step or grade.

Leave

While you are available, you can no longer take the following holidays:

• Annual leave and enhanced leave
• Regular, long-term or long-term sick leave
• Leave for temporary invalidity attributable to service (Citis)
• Maternity or adoption leave
• Leave for birth or adoption
• Paternity and childcare leave
• Vocational training leave
• Leave for validation of professional experience
• Skills Check Leave
• Family Solidarity Leave
• Caregiver leave
• Leave for union training
• Parental Leave

Social protection

You are entitled to sickness, daily allowances and reimbursement of your medical expenses.

It is your administration that pays the daily allowances and your CPAM: titleContent which ensures the reimbursement of your medical expenses.

Retirement

Your period of availability is not considered for your retirement

What is the process at the end of availability?

You are reinstated and reassigned to your previous job whether you request your reinstatement on the scheduled date or early.

You can request availability for personal convenience.

Who is involved?

You can request a lay-off only if you are permanent official.

This is not possible if you are a probationary public servant or if you are a contractual employee.

How long is the availability?

Availability for personal convenience is granted for a maximum of 5 years.

Availability is renewable up to a maximum of 10 years for your entire career.

However, since march 29, 2019if you spend 5 consecutive years on personal leave, you can only renew your leave if you first return to the public service for at least 18 months.

If you accumulate an availability to create or resume a company with availability for personal convenience, the accumulated length of the 2 availabilities cannot exceed 5 years if it is 1^re period of availability.

How do I apply?

You must request your lay-off by mail.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

There is no text setting out the time limit within which you must submit your request in advance.

Your employer authority can only object to your request for lay-off because of the service requirements or, where appropriate, an opinion delivered by the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life.

However, she may require you to meet a 3-month deadline before leaving on leave.

If your administration does not reply to your request for lay-off within 2 months of the date of receipt of your request, it shall be deemed to have been accepted.

Is availability paid?

You are no longer paid by your employer's administration for the duration of your availability.

However, you can carry out a professional activity while you are available.

The professional activity may be any gainful activity, whether employed or self-employed, carried out on a full-time or part-time basis.

This may be a contract activity in the public service (with an employer administration other than your employer administration as a public servant) or an activity in the private sector.

If the activity is carried out in the private sector, you must inform your employer administration.

This activity must be compatible with your functions in the previous 3 years.

If you are in paid employment, it must represent a working time of at least 600 hours per year.

If you are self-employed, it must provide you with an annual gross income of at least €6,762.

What are the effects of availability?

Progress

While you are available, you cease to enjoy your rights to advancement in step or grade.

However, if you are or have been on standby for personal convenience since august 8, 2019 and if you are or have been employed, you retain your rights to advancement in step and grade for up to 5 years.

If you were on standby to follow your Civil partnership or partner before August 8, 2019, your standby periods were not considered for advancement.

In order to retain your rights to advancement in step and grade, you must send each year, no later than 31 May, to your administration the supporting documents for your activity.

If the advancement in your rank is subject to the prior occupation of certain jobs or functions, your period of service may be taken into account to fulfill this condition.

Your business must be comparable to those jobs and functions in terms of the nature of the business or the level of responsibility exercised.

It's the special status your body which defines the conditions under which this professional activity can be taken into account.

Leave

While you are available, you can no longer take the following holidays:

• Annual leave and enhanced leave
• Regular, long-term or long-term sick leave
• Leave for temporary invalidity attributable to service (Citis)
• Maternity or adoption leave
• Leave for birth or adoption
• Paternity and childcare leave
• Vocational training leave
• Leave for validation of professional experience
• Skills Check Leave
• Family Solidarity Leave
• Caregiver leave
• Leave for union training
• Parental Leave

Social protection

Retirement

Your periods of availability are not taken into account for your public servant retirement.

However, if you are engaged in another gainful occupation while you are available, you will acquire pension rights from the pension scheme under which that occupation is carried out.

What is the process at the end of availability?

Application for renewal or reintegration

At least 2 months before your availability ends, you must inform your employer administration if you wish to renew your availability or rejoin your body of membership.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

If you do not apply for renewal or reinstatement, you are removed from the executive ranks at the end of your availability, that is, you will lose your status as a public servant.

If your duties require special health conditions, your reinstatement is subject to prior checking of your fitness by a licensed medical practitioner and, if necessary, by the medical advice.

If you are fit to resume your duties

If your availability is less than 3 years, you must be reinstated to the 1^re vacancy in your grade.

If you refuse the proposed job, you are kept on standby until a new job is vacant or created. 

If there is no vacancy, you will be kept on standby until you are reinstated and at the latest until 3 positions have been offered to you.

If your availability is greater than 3 years, no text sets out the conditions for reintegration.

If you turn down 3 positions in succession, you can be dismissed after the opinion of the HEADING: titleContent.

Unemployment compensation in the event of continued lay-off

If you are kept on leave by your employer's administration because there is no job vacancy, you are considered to be involuntarily deprived of employment.

You can then collect unemployment benefits if you meet the conditions to take advantage of it.

It is considered that you meet the job search condition as long as your reintegration is not possible due to a lack of job vacancy.

If you are unable to resume your duties

If you are unable to resume your duties, whether you request your reinstatement on the scheduled date or early, you are placed in one of the following situations:

• Reclassification
• Office Lay-off
• Retirement in the event of permanent incapacity, or, if you are not entitled to a pension, dismissal

You can request availability to create or resume a company.

This activity must be compatible with your functions in the previous 3 years.

Who is involved?

You can request a lay-off only if you are permanent official.

This is not possible if you are a probationary public servant or if you are a contractual employee.

How long is the availability?

Availability to create or take over a company is granted for up to 2 years.

At the end of the 2 years, availability is not renewable.

How do I apply?

You must request your lay-off by mail.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

There is no text setting out the time limit within which you must submit your request in advance.

Your employer authority can only object to your request for lay-off because of the service requirements or, where appropriate, an opinion delivered by the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life.

However, she may require you to meet a 3-month deadline before leaving on leave.

If your administration does not reply to your request for lay-off within 2 months of the date of receipt of your request, it shall be deemed to have been accepted.

You must justify at any time that your situation corresponds to the reasons for which you were granted availability.

The administration may carry out investigations.

Is availability paid?

You are no longer paid by your employer's administration for the duration of your availability.

If you are an employee, it must represent a working time of at least 600 hours per year.

If you are self-employed, it must provide you with an annual gross income of at least €6,762.

What are the effects of availability?

Progress

If you are or have been on standby to create or resume a company since august 8, 2019, you retain your rights to advancement in step and grade for up to 5 years.

If you were on standby to create or resume a company before August 8, 2019, your standby periods were not considered for advancement.

In order to retain your rights to advancement in step and grade, you must send each year, no later than 31 May, to your administration the supporting documents for your activity.

If the advancement in your rank is subject to the prior occupation of certain jobs or functions, your period of service may be taken into account to fulfill this condition.

Your business must be comparable to those jobs and functions in terms of the nature of the business or the level of responsibility exercised.

It's the special status your body which defines the conditions under which this professional activity can be taken into account.

Leave

While you are available, you can no longer take the following holidays:

• Annual leave and enhanced leave
• Regular, long-term or long-term sick leave
• Leave for temporary invalidity attributable to service (Citis)
• Maternity or adoption leave
• Leave for birth or adoption
• Paternity and childcare leave
• Vocational training leave
• Leave for validation of professional experience
• Skills Check Leave
• Family Solidarity Leave
• Caregiver leave
• Leave for union training
• Parental Leave

Social protection

You are covered by the social protection scheme of your professional activity.

Retirement

Your periods of availability are not taken into account for your public servant retirement.

But you acquire pension rights from the pension plan under which you operate.

What is the process at the end of availability?

Application for renewal or reintegration

At least 2 months before your availability ends, you must inform your employer administration if you wish to renew your availability or rejoin your body of membership.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

If you do not apply for renewal or reinstatement, you are removed from the executive ranks at the end of your availability, that is, you will lose your status as a public servant.

If your duties require special health conditions, your reinstatement is subject to prior checking of your fitness by a licensed medical practitioner and, if necessary, by the medical advice.

If you are fit to resume your duties

You must be reinstated to 1^re vacancy in your grade.

If you refuse the proposed job, you are kept on standby until a new job is vacant or created. 

If there is no vacancy, you will be kept on standby until you are reinstated and at the latest until 3 positions have been offered to you.

If you turn down 3 positions in succession, you can be dismissed after the opinion of the HEADING: titleContent.

Unemployment compensation in the event of continued lay-off

If you are kept on leave by your employer's administration because there is no job vacancy, you are considered to be involuntarily deprived of employment.

You can then collect unemployment benefits if you meet the conditions to take advantage of it.

It is considered that you meet the job search condition as long as your reintegration is not possible due to a lack of job vacancy.

If you are unable to resume your duties

If you are unable to resume your duties, whether you request your reinstatement on the scheduled date or early, you are placed in one of the following situations:

• Reclassification
• Office Lay-off
• Retirement in the event of permanent incapacity, or, if you are not entitled to a pension, dismissal

You may request availability to conduct studies or research of general interest to extend or enhance your personal training.

This availability is part of personal training.

It may be granted to you to allow you to satisfy professional or personal projects.

The general interest of studies or research is appreciated by your employer administration.

There is no regulatory definition of the concept of the public interest.

However, the general interest may be recognized in studies and research which are likely to advance knowledge in a specific field and which are of general interest to the administration or the community in scientific, historical or cultural matters.

Who is involved?

You can request a lay-off only if you are permanent official.

This is not possible if you are a probationary public servant or if you are a contractual employee.

How long is the availability?

Availability for studies or research of general interest is granted for a maximum of 3 years.

At the end of the 3 years, the availability is renewable for a maximum of 3 years.

How do I apply?

You must request your lay-off by mail.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

There is no text setting out the time limit within which you must submit your request in advance.

Your employer authority can only object to your request for lay-off because of the service requirements.

However, she may require you to meet a 3-month deadline before leaving on leave.

If your administration does not reply to your request for lay-off within 2 months of the date of receipt of your request, it shall be deemed to have been accepted.

You must justify at any time that your situation corresponds to the reasons for which you were granted availability.

The administration may carry out investigations.

Is availability paid?

You are no longer paid by your employer's administration for the duration of your availability.

However, you may, within the limits of the budget appropriations available, enter into a study contract with the administration.

This study contract gives rise to a lump sum payment by your administration.

The amount of this lump sum allowance is equal to your index treatment and to your residence allowance (if you receive this compensation top-up) on the date the contract was awarded.

The study contract is awarded for a maximum period of one year, renewable.

The lump sum allowance is paid quarterly.

You must provide your administration with a certificate of attendance or actual participation in the work.

You must commit to remain in government service for a period equal to three times the duration of the study contract.

What are the effects of availability?

Progress

If you are or have been available for study or research since august 8, 2019, you retain your rights to advancement in step and grade for up to 5 years.

If you were on study or research leave before August 8, 2019, your leave periods were not considered for advancement.

Leave

While you are available, you can no longer take the following holidays:

• Annual leave and enhanced leave
• Regular, long-term or long-term sick leave
• Leave for temporary invalidity attributable to service (Citis)
• Maternity or adoption leave
• Leave for birth or adoption
• Paternity and childcare leave
• Vocational training leave
• Leave for validation of professional experience
• Skills Check Leave
• Family Solidarity Leave
• Caregiver leave
• Leave for union training
• Parental Leave

Social protection

You benefit, during 1 year, in case of sickness or maternity, daily allowances and reimbursement of your medical expenses.

It is your administration that pays the daily allowances and your CPAM: titleContent which ensures the reimbursement of your medical expenses.

At the end of the one-year period, you must request the universal disease protection (Puma).

Retirement

Your periods of availability are not taken into account for your public servant retirement.

What is the process at the end of availability?

Application for renewal or reintegration

At least 2 months before your availability ends, you must inform your employer administration if you wish to renew your availability or rejoin your body of membership.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

If you do not apply for renewal or reinstatement, you are removed from the executive ranks at the end of your availability, that is, you will lose your status as a public servant.

If your duties require special health conditions, your reinstatement is subject to prior checking of your fitness by a licensed medical practitioner and, if necessary, by the medical advice.

If you are fit to resume your duties

If your availability is less than 3 years, you must be reinstated to the 1^re vacancy in your grade.

If you refuse the proposed job, you are kept on standby until a new job is vacant or created. 

If there is no vacancy, you will be kept on standby until you are reinstated and at the latest until 3 positions have been offered to you.

If your availability is greater than 3 years, no text sets out the conditions for reintegration.

If you turn down 3 positions in succession, you can be dismissed after the opinion of the HEADING: titleContent.

Unemployment compensation in the event of continued lay-off

If you are kept on leave by your employer's administration because there is no job vacancy, you are considered to be involuntarily deprived of employment.

You can then collect unemployment benefits if you meet the conditions to take advantage of it.

It is considered that you meet the job search condition as long as your reintegration is not possible due to a lack of job vacancy.

If you are unable to resume your duties

If you are unable to resume your duties, whether you request your reinstatement on the scheduled date or early, you are placed in one of the following situations:

• Reclassification
• Office Lay-off
• Retirement in the event of permanent incapacity, or, if you are not entitled to a pension, dismissal

You can request an availability to carry out an activity in an international organization.

Who is involved?

You can request a lay-off only if you are permanent official.

This is not possible if you are a probationary public servant or if you are a contractual employee.

How long is the availability?

Availability to carry out an activity in an international organization is granted for a maximum of 5 years.

How do I apply?

You must request your lay-off by mail.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

There is no text setting out the time limit within which you must submit your request in advance.

Your employer authority can only object to your request for lay-off because of the service requirements.

However, she may require you to meet a 3-month deadline before leaving on leave.

If your administration does not reply to your request for lay-off within 2 months of the date of receipt of your request, it shall be deemed to have been accepted.

You must justify at any time that your situation corresponds to the reasons for which you were granted availability.

The administration may carry out investigations.

Is availability paid?

You are no longer paid by your employer's administration for the duration of your availability.

But you get the remuneration for the activity in the international body.

What are the effects of availability?

Progress

If you are or have been on standby to carry out an activity in an international organization since august 8, 2019, you retain your rights to advancement in step and grade for up to 5 years.

If you were on standby for an activity in an international organization before August 8, 2019, your standby periods were not considered for advancement.

In order to retain your rights to advancement in step and grade, you must send copies of your salary slips and your employment contract to your administration every year by 31 May.

If you are working abroad, these documents must be accompanied by their translation into French by a certified translator.

If the advancement in your rank is subject to the prior occupation of certain jobs or functions, your period of service may be taken into account to fulfill this condition.

Your business must be comparable to those jobs and functions in terms of the nature of the business or the level of responsibility exercised.

It's the special status your body which defines the conditions under which this professional activity can be taken into account.

Leave

While you are available, you can no longer take the following holidays:

• Annual leave and enhanced leave
• Regular, long-term or long-term sick leave
• Leave for temporary invalidity attributable to service (Citis)
• Maternity or adoption leave
• Leave for birth or adoption
• Paternity and childcare leave
• Vocational training leave
• Leave for validation of professional experience
• Skills Check Leave
• Family Solidarity Leave
• Caregiver leave
• Leave for union training
• Parental Leave

Social protection

You are covered by the social protection scheme of your professional activity.

Retirement

Your periods of availability are not taken into account for your public servant retirement.

But you acquire pension rights from the pension plan under which you operate.

What is the process at the end of availability?

Application for renewal or reintegration

At least 2 months before your availability ends, you must inform your employer administration if you wish to renew your availability or rejoin your body of membership.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

If you do not apply for renewal or reinstatement, you are removed from the executive ranks at the end of your availability, that is, you will lose your status as a public servant.

If your duties require special health conditions, your reinstatement is subject to prior checking of your fitness by a licensed medical practitioner and, if necessary, by the medical advice.

If you are fit to resume your duties

If your availability is less than 3 years, you must be reinstated to the 1^re vacancy in your grade.

If you refuse the proposed job, you are kept on standby until a new job is vacant or created. 

If there is no vacancy, you will be kept on standby until you are reinstated and at the latest until 3 positions have been offered to you.

If your availability is greater than 3 years, no text sets out the conditions for reintegration.

If you turn down 3 positions in succession, you can be dismissed after the opinion of the HEADING: titleContent.

Unemployment compensation in the event of continued lay-off

If you are kept on leave by your employer's administration because there is no job vacancy, you are considered to be involuntarily deprived of employment.

You can then collect unemployment benefits if you meet the conditions to take advantage of it.

It is considered that you meet the job search condition as long as your reintegration is not possible due to a lack of job vacancy.

If you are unable to resume your duties

If you are unable to resume your duties, whether you request your reinstatement on the scheduled date or early, you are placed in one of the following situations:

• Reclassification
• Office Lay-off
• Retirement in the event of permanent incapacity, or, if you are not entitled to a pension, dismissal

You can request availability to serve as a local elected official.

What's this about?

You can benefit from an availability if you are elected local.

Who is involved?

You can request a lay-off only if you are permanent official.

This is not possible if you are a probationary public servant or if you are a contractual employee.

How long is the availability?

Availability to serve as a local elected official is granted for the duration of the term.

How do I apply?

You must request your lay-off by mail.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

There is no text setting out the time limit within which you must submit your request in advance.

You must attach to your application the necessary documents justifying the situation that allows you to benefit from availability.

Such availability shall be granted by right (i.e. the administration cannot refuse you).

You must justify at any time that your situation corresponds to the reasons for which you were granted availability.

The administration may carry out investigations.

Is availability paid?

You are no longer paid by your employer's administration for the duration of your availability.

You can collect a allowance according to your mandate.

What are the effects of availability?

Progress

While you are available, you cease to enjoy your rights to advancement in step or grade.

Leave

While you are available, you can no longer take the following holidays:

• Annual leave and enhanced leave
• Regular, long-term or long-term sick leave
• Leave for temporary invalidity attributable to service (Citis)
• Maternity or adoption leave
• Leave for birth or adoption
• Paternity and childcare leave
• Vocational training leave
• Leave for validation of professional experience
• Skills Check Leave
• Family Solidarity Leave
• Caregiver leave
• Leave for union training
• Parental Leave

Social protection

You are member of the general social security scheme to the CPAM: titleContent of your place of residence.

Retirement

Your period of availability is not taken into account for your retirement as a public servant.

However, you are affiliated to the Social Security Old Age Insurance and Ircantec.

What is the process at the end of availability?

Application for renewal or reintegration

At least 2 months before your availability ends, you must inform your employer administration if you wish to renew your availability or rejoin your body of membership.

It is recommended to make the request by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

If you do not apply for renewal or reinstatement, you are removed from the executive ranks at the end of your availability, that is, you will lose your status as a public servant.

If your duties require special health conditions, your reinstatement is subject to prior checking of your fitness by a licensed medical practitioner and, if necessary, by the medical advice.

If you are fit to resume your duties

You are reinstated and reassigned to your previous job.

If you are unable to resume your duties

If you are unable to resume your duties, whether you request your reinstatement on the scheduled date or early, you are placed in one of the following situations:

• Reclassification
• Office Lay-off
• Retirement in the event of permanent incapacity, or, if you are not entitled to a pension, dismissal