Can a civil servant work part-time for therapeutic reasons?

You may be allowed to work part-time for therapeutic reasons if you are in one of the following situations:

• Part-time work allows you to holding or your back to work and is recognized as being promote the improvement of your health
• Part-time work allows you to benefit from a rehabilitation or a vocational rehabilitation to find a job compatible with your health.

Part-time work for therapeutic reasons may occur as soon as your state of health warrants it, at the end of a sick leave or without you having been on sick leave before.

If you are a civil servant trainee, you may be allowed to work part-time for therapeutic reasons unless your traineeship involves vocational education or is to be completed in a training institution.

Part-time for therapeutic reasons may not be less than half-time.

You may be allowed to work at 50%, 60%, 70%, 80% or 90% full-time.

Authorization to work part-time for therapeutic reasons is granted in the one-year limit.

Part-time for therapeutic reasons may be exercised in a continue or discontinuous for a maximum total period of one year.

When the rights to work part-time for therapeutic reasons are exhausted, they are replenished at the end of a full-time period of one year. Only periods made in position of activity and secondment shall be taken into account for the calculation of that one-year period.

At the end of this one-year period, you can benefit from a new part-time authorization for therapeutic reasons.

You must send your employer to your administration application for authorization part-time work for therapeutic reasons.

Your application must be accompanied by a medical certificate containing the following information:

• Desired amount of part-time (50%, 60%, 70%, 80% or 90%)
• Desired duration of part-time period up to one year
• Conditions for part-time work (continuous or discontinuous, in days or half-days not worked or in the form of a daily reduction in working hours).

The application for renewal of the authorization to work part-time for therapeutic reasons shall be made in the same way.

Upon receipt of your request, your employer administration may submit you to an examination by a certified physician.

An approved doctor is a general practitioner or specialist appearing on a list drawn up, in each department, by the prefect, on a proposal from the French regional health authority, after consulting the Departmental Council of the Order of Doctors. The role of a certified physician is to carry out counter-visits and expert assessments.

In the event of an unjustified absence from this medical examination, you are considered to be waiving your request for part-time work for therapeutic reasons.

You and your employer authority may challenge the findings of a licensed physician before the medical advice sitting in a restricted formation.

Where the application for part-time work for therapeutic reasons is submitted at the end of a period of long-term sick leave (LWOP), of long-term (CLD), of leave for temporary invalidity attributable to service (Citis) or after a availability for health reasons, the decision of the administration shall take place at the latest on the day of your resumption.

The same shall apply in the case of an application for renewal of the authorization.

In other cases, the decision is made no later than 30 days from the date of receipt of your request by your administration.

The refusal by your employer administration of a 1^re request for part-time work for therapeutic reasons or a request for renewal must be justified.

Similarly, an interruption by your employer administration of your authorization to work part-time for therapeutic reasons must be justified.

Where the refusal or interruption of part-time work for therapeutic reasons is based on service requirements, the decision of the administration must be preceded by an interview during which you can be assisted by a person of your choice.

Where the decision to refuse or discontinue part-time work for therapeutic reasons is based on medical grounds, your employer administration must obtain the prior opinion of a certified doctor.

In the event of a change of employer during a period of part-time work for therapeutic reasons, you retain your authorization to work part-time with your new employer.

Your employer administration may, at your request :

• Change your part-time work rate before the expected end date of the current period
• Terminate your part-time work before the scheduled date.

In these 2 cases, you must attach a medical certificate to your application.

Your employer administration may also, at your request, terminate your part-time work before the scheduled date if you are on leave for health reasons leave for temporary invalidity attributable to service (Citis) for more than 30 consecutive days.

Your administration may submit to you at any time to one examination by a certified physician.

In case of refusal to submit, your authorization to work part-time for therapeutic reasons is interrupted.

You and your employer authority may challenge the findings of a licensed physician before the medical advice sitting in a restricted formation.

If you are authorized to work part-time for therapeutic reasons at the time of referral to the medical council, this authorization shall be extended until the medical council has given its opinion.

You may be allowed to work part-time for therapeutic reasons if you are in one of the following situations:

• Part-time work allows you to holding or your back to work and is recognized as being promote the improvement of your health
• Part-time work allows you to benefit from a rehabilitation or a vocational rehabilitation to find a job compatible with your health.

Part-time work for therapeutic reasons may occur as soon as your state of health warrants it, at the end of a sick leave or without you having been on sick leave before.

If you are a civil servant trainee, you may be allowed to work part-time for therapeutic reasons unless your traineeship involves vocational education or is to be completed in a training institution.

Part-time for therapeutic reasons may not be less than half-time.

You may be allowed to work at 50%, 60%, 70%, 80% or 90% full-time.

Authorization to work part-time for therapeutic reasons is granted in the one-year limit.

Part-time for therapeutic reasons may be exercised in a continue or discontinuous for a maximum total period of one year.

When the rights to work part-time for therapeutic reasons are exhausted, they are replenished at the end of a full-time period of one year. Only periods made in position of activity and secondment shall be taken into account for the calculation of that one-year period.

At the end of this one-year period, you can benefit from a new part-time authorization for therapeutic reasons.

You must send your employer to your administration application for authorization part-time work for therapeutic reasons.

Your application must be accompanied by a medical certificate containing the following information:

• Desired amount of part-time (50%, 60%, 70%, 80% or 90%)
• Desired duration of part-time period up to one year
• Conditions for part-time work (continuous or discontinuous, in days or half-days not worked or in the form of a daily reduction in working hours).

The application for renewal of the authorization to work part-time for therapeutic reasons shall be made in the same way.

Upon receipt of your request, your employer administration may submit you to an examination by a certified physician.

An approved doctor is a general practitioner or specialist appearing on a list drawn up, in each department, by the prefect, on a proposal from the French regional health authority, after consulting the Departmental Council of the Order of Doctors. The role of a certified physician is to carry out counter-visits and expert assessments.

In the event of an unjustified absence from this medical examination, you are considered to be waiving your request for part-time work for therapeutic reasons.

You and your employer authority may challenge the findings of a licensed physician before the medical advice sitting in a restricted formation.

Where the application for part-time work for therapeutic reasons is submitted at the end of a period of long-term sick leave (LWOP), of long-term (CLD), of leave for temporary invalidity attributable to service (Citis) or after a availability for health reasons, the decision of the administration shall take place at the latest on the day of your resumption.

The same shall apply in the case of an application for renewal of the authorization.

In other cases, the decision is made no later than 30 days from the date of receipt of your request by your administration.

The refusal by your employer administration of a 1^re request for part-time work for therapeutic reasons or a request for renewal must be justified.

Similarly, an interruption by your employer administration of your authorization to work part-time for therapeutic reasons must be justified.

Where the refusal or interruption of part-time work for therapeutic reasons is based on service requirements, the decision of the administration must be preceded by an interview during which you can be assisted by a person of your choice.

Where the decision to refuse or discontinue part-time work for therapeutic reasons is based on medical grounds, your employer administration must obtain the prior opinion of a certified doctor.

In the event of a change of employer during a period of part-time work for therapeutic reasons, you retain your authorization to work part-time with your new employer.

Your employer administration may, at your request :

• Change your part-time work rate before the expected end date of the current period
• Terminate your part-time work before the scheduled date.

In these 2 cases, you must attach a medical certificate to your application.

Your employer administration may also, at your request, terminate your part-time work before the scheduled date if you are on leave for health reasons leave for temporary invalidity attributable to service (Citis) for more than 30 consecutive days.

Your administration may submit to you at any time to one examination by a certified physician.

In case of refusal to submit, your authorization to work part-time for therapeutic reasons is interrupted.

You and your employer authority may challenge the findings of a licensed physician before the medical advice sitting in a restricted formation.

If you are authorized to work part-time for therapeutic reasons at the time of referral to the medical council, this authorization shall be extended until the medical council has given its opinion.