Teleconsultations: the new rules on sick leave

A doctor making a teleconsultation may not prescribe a work stoppage for a period longer than 3 days, or extend an ongoing work stoppage if this results in its total duration being increased to more than 3 days.

There are two exceptions to this rule:

• when the work stoppage is prescribed or renewed by the employee’s treating physician (or the employee’s midwife referrer);
• if the employee is unable to consult a health-care professional to obtain an extension of the work stoppage in person.

The 2025 Social Security Financing Law establishes two other prohibitions:

• in respect of health professionals working principally abroad : these practitioners can no longer prescribe or renew a work stoppage during a telemedicine procedure, regardless of the duration of the stoppage;
• the establishment of any platform that would aim to “provide primarily, explicitly or implicitly, telemedicine prescribing or renewing a work stoppage ”.

To learn more about the rules for telemedicine, you can consult the Service-Public.fr : Telehealth: telemedicine (teleconsultation, telemonitoring...)