Internship and tenure of the official
Verified 25 November 2025 - Public Service / Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
You've just been recruited as official ? You are subject to a probationary period before becoming established. If you are already a permanent civil servant, you may also be subject to a probationary period in career if you change employment body or executive following an internal competition or promotion. We present you the information to know according to your public service of belonging (State - FPE, territorial - FPT, hospital - FPH).
EPF
The internship is a probationary period, i.e. a probationary period, the purpose of which is to enable the employer’s administration to ensure that you demonstrate professional capacity to perform the duties corresponding to your grade.
According to the body in which you are appointed as a public servant trainee, the probationary period may include a period of compulsory training.
At the end of the probationary period, you are eligible to become a permanent civil servant.
You are appointed as a probationary public servant when you are recruited into the public service as a result of contest or a procedure for recruitment without competition.
You may also be appointed as a probationary official in career when you change body as a result of a competition or internal promotion.
Exemptions from probationary periods are provided for, for example, for staff members admitted to an internal competition for access to a category C corps of the State, unless otherwise provided for in the particular statute of the corps concerned.
If you are already a full civil servant and subject to a traineeship, you remain in your previous grade and are seconded for traineeship in your new grade.
If the special status of your new corps provides for an exemption from probationary periods, you are directly admitted to your new rank.
Where your appointment as a probationary official occurs as a result of your admission to a competition or as a result of your internal promotion, you may, in certain cases, request the postponement of your appointment.
This means that you can request a deferral of your appointment if your appointment is not possible due to your health condition.
You must provide a medical certificate issued by a licensed physician.
In the event of a challenge to the medical certificate by the appointing authority, the request for postponement shall be submitted to the medical advice.
You can also request a deferral of your appointment as a probationary official if you are pregnant.
Whether you request a deferral of your appointment as a probationary public servant because of your medical condition or because of your pregnancy condition, the deferral cannot exceed one year.
However, when the internship takes place in a school or training institute, your appointment may be postponed to the date of entry into training of the next promotion.
You can also request a deferral of your appointment as a probationary public servant if you meet the following 3 conditions:
- You reside in an overseas territory on the date of your admission to the contest or internal promotion
- And you must begin, within less than 2 months of your admission, a probationary period or a period of training in the metropolitan area
- And you justify difficulties of installation in metropolitan France related to your personal or family situation.
This deferral may not exceed one year. However, when the internship takes place in a school or training institute, your appointment may be postponed to the date of entry into training of the next promotion.
It is also possible to request the postponement of your appointment as a probationary official if you are already a full civil servant and you are in one of the following situations at the time of your appointment as a probationary official:
- You are in parental leave
- Or you're in parental attendance leave
- Or you're in caregiver leave.
Your appointment as a probationary public servant may be postponed until the end of your leave.
General rules
Your internship can take place on your workstation and include training periods.
It can also take place in a school or training institute specialized in the professional training of civil servants.
Some of these schools are ministry-specific and allow for employment in the ministry concerned (in central government or in decentralized services). These include the École nationale des greffes (ENG), the École nationale de police (ENP) and the École nationale de la magistrature (ENM).
Other schools are interdepartmental and provide access to jobs from different departments. These are the Regional Institutes of Administration (IRA) and the National Institute of Public Service (INSP).
Where the traineeship takes place in a school or training institute, it shall comprise a continuous or discontinuous period of teaching and a continuous or discontinuous period of work placement within the administrations.
During your internship, you may not be transferred, seconded, made available or made available.
In the event of the absence of the probationary official from one or more assessment tests
If the internship takes place in whole or in part in a school or training institute, and if you are absent for a serious reason from an exam sanctioned by a grade or other form of evaluation, you are authorized to take a new exam or evaluation organized by the school or training institute.
If the school or training institute is unable to organize a new test, you will be assigned the grade corresponding to the average or median of the grades obtained by the other probationary officials. The scoring method chosen is determined, for each training, by ministerial decree.
At the end of the training, the jury (or the competent body) examines whether your absences from the tests or evaluations that could not be replaced prevent the assessment of your aptitude, in particular on the basis of the number of your absences and your results in the tests or evaluations in which you participated.
If the jury (or the competent body) considers that your ability to perform the duties corresponding to your grade cannot be assessed, you are entitled to complete all or part of the training period at a later date.
In case of pregnancy
When the internship takes place in whole or in part in a school or training institute and when you inform the school or training institute of your pregnancy status, the institution receives you in an interview to inform you of your rights.
The establishment offers accommodation measures compatible with the course of your training.
The normal duration of the internship is determined by the particular status of the body in which you are appointed as a probationary official.
The normal duration of the internship may vary depending on whether you access the body by competition or internal promotion.
If, at the end of the normal probationary period, your professional skills are not considered sufficient to allow your tenure, your probationary period may be extended.
The maximum possible duration of extension is determined by the particular status of the body.
FYI
When your internship is extended, the extension period is not taken into account in the calculation of your seniority at the time of your tenure but it is taken into account for retirement.
You can request permission to work part-time for the same reasons and under the same conditions as a regular civil servant, unless your internship involves professional education or must be completed in a training institution (Ira, INSP, etc.).
If you are doing your internship part-time, the duration of your internship is increased proportionally to be equivalent to that of a full-time probationary official.
For example, if you have to complete a one-year internship, depending on your part-time ratio, the duration of your internship is as follows:
Amount of working time | Duration of the internship |
|---|---|
90% | 1 year 1 month 10 days |
80% | 1 year 3 months |
70% | 1 year 5 months 4 days |
60% | 1 year 8 months |
50% | 2 years |
You are paid on the basis of 1er step of your rank.
If you were already a regular public servant before being appointed as a probationary public servant, you can choose to retain, during the probationary period, the salary to which you were entitled in your original body or employment.
The maintenance of your previous index treatment is possible within the limit of the index treatment to which you can claim during your tenure.
Your previous service is taken into account in accordance with the provisions of the particular status of the corps in which you are appointed as a trainee and determines the step to which you are classified and your remuneration.
As a probationary public servant, you have the same rights and obligations as a regular public servant:
- Non-discrimination
- Right to health protection
- Functional protection
- Trade union rights
- Right to strike
- Obligation of hierarchical obedience
- Duty of reserve, duty of professional discretion, professional secrecy
- Compliance with the rules of cumulation of activity.
Your employer's administration must provide you with essential information and rules concerning the performance of your duties.
You are entitled to leave and special leave of absence to which staff members are entitled on the same terms and conditions as regular staff members insofar as such leave, special leave of absence and conditions are compatible with your particular situation.
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Annual leave and leave of absence
You are entitled to annual leave of the same duration and under the same conditions as a regular official.
You are also entitled to leave of absence, in particular for family reasons, under the same conditions as a regular civil servant: for childcare or sick child, if you marry or you pass, at the death of a relative.
Reminder
As a trainee civil servant, you cannot open a time savings account (CET). If you already have a TEC (as a regular or contract civil servant prior to your appointment as a trainee), you cannot use the days saved or save days during your traineeship.
Leave for health reasons
When your health condition requires it, you can take one of the following leave:
- Sick leave
- Long-term Sick Leave (LSL)
- Long Term Leave (LTL)
- Temporary Disability Leave Due to Service - Citis (up to a maximum of 5 years if you are not a permanent civil servant in another body or employment).
If, at the end of a leave for health reasons, you are unable to resume your duties, you can be placed on unpaid leave, for a maximum of one year renewable twice.
Unpaid leave and its renewal shall be ordered after the medical advice.
If, at the end of paid sick leave or a period of unpaid sick leave, you are found permanently unfit to resume your duties, you shall be dismissed.
However, if you are a permanent civil servant in another body or employment, your secondment for probation is terminated and you are made available to your home administration.
You may be allowed to resume your work at part-time for therapeutic reasons under the same conditions as a regular civil servant unless your internship involves vocational education or must be completed in a school or training institute.
Leave for family reasons
You can benefit, at your request, from unpaid leave of a maximum of one year, renewable twice for the following reasons:
- Caring for your spouse or partner Civil partnerships: titleContent, a child or a ascending as a result of an accident or serious illness
- Giving care to a dependent child, your Civil partnership partner or an ascendant with a disability that requires the presence of a third party
- Raising a child under 12
- Follow your husband or Civil partnership partner who has to move for work reasons to a location far from where you work.
You must apply to resume your duties at least 2 months before the end of your current leave.
You can also take the following leave:
- Leave of absence maternity or of adoption
- 3-day leave for the birth or arrival of a child placed for adoption
- Paternity and childcare leave.
You can also take the following holidays:
- Parental Leave : if you are a permanent civil servant in another body or employment, seconded on probation, that secondment shall be terminated during your parental leave. You are automatically reinstated on secondment at the end of your parental leave for the remainder of the period of the internship to be completed.
- Family solidarity leave
- Parental Presence Leave
- Caregiver Leave.
Leave for personal convenience
You can be placed at your request and subject to service requirements, on leave for personal convenience for up to 3 months.
The leave is not unpaid.
Leave to prepare for or admit to a competition
You can apply for unpaid leave if you are admitted:
- To a cycle preparatory to a competition for admission to the civil service, to the international civil service, to a post as an official of parliamentary assemblies, a magistrate of the judicial order or a military officer
- Or in a training institution through which the recruitment of civil servants, magistrates of the judicial order and military personnel takes place
- Or to a competition for admission to the civil service, to the international civil service, to a post as an official of the parliamentary assemblies, as a magistrate of the judicial order or as a member of the military
The leave ends at the end of the probationary period, school or preparatory cycle for the accomplishment of which you were granted the leave.
You cannot take more than one leave at the same time for these reasons.
Annual leave has no effect on the length of your internship.
If you have been granted parental leave, the end date of your probationary period shall be postponed by a number of working days equal to the number of days and, where applicable, half-days of parental leave used.
The same applies if you have been on family solidarity leave or a caregiver's leave.
The total duration of paid leave of any kind from which you have benefited other than annual leave is taken into account as probationary time only for one 10e the duration of the internship. If the total duration of such paid leave exceeds 10e the duration of your internship, your internship is extended by the same amount.
However, if you have been granted maternity or adoption leave, 3 days' leave for the birth or arrival of a child placed for adoption or paternity and childcare leave, your tenure takes effect on the date of the end of the statutory duration of the probationary period, excluding the extension due to your leave.
Example :
You are appointed intern for one year of 1er June to May 31 of the following year and you receive a maternity leave of 112 days during your internship. Your internship is extended by 76 days (112 - 36 days – one 10e of one year). The decision of tenure will only take place from August 16 given the extension of your internship but will take effect on June 1.
If your probationary period is interrupted for at least 3 years due to successive holidays of any kind, other than annual leave, you must resume your entire probationary period at the end of your last leave.
If your internship is interrupted for less than 3 years, you may not be admitted to the full term until you have completed the additional period of internship necessary to reach the normal duration of the internship provided for by the particular status of your body.
At the end of your probationary period, if your employer administration considers that you have demonstrated the professional skills required to perform the duties corresponding to your rank, you are tenured.
If not, you are dismissed for professional insufficiency.
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Titularization
At the end of your probationary period, you will be appointed if your employer administration considers that you have the professional skills required to perform the duties corresponding to your grade.
Your administration issues a tenure order.
If you were already a regular public servant in another government agency, a territorial employment executive or a hospital department before your appointment as a probationary public servant, you become the holder of the rank to which you were appointed as a probationary public servant and you lose your former rank.
If you belonged to the territorial or hospital public service, you are removed from the executive category in your employment or your home body.
Dismissal for occupational insufficiency
If your employer administration determines that you do not have the professional skills required to perform the duties corresponding to your grade, it may dismiss you for professional insufficiency.
Your employer administration may dismiss you for professional insufficiency in progress or at the end of your internship.
Your employer administration may dismiss you for professional insufficiency in the course of an internship if you have performed at least half of your internship.
To pronounce your dismissal, your employer administration must follow the same procedure as that provided for in the event of disciplinary sanction, unless your professional competence is to be assessed by a jury.
Thus, the dismissal decision is subject to the prior opinion of the Joint Administrative Commission (JAC).
You are entitled to full disclosure of your individual file and all supporting documents.
The administration must inform you of this right.
During the procedure, you are entitled to the assistance of the defenders of your choice.
If you were already a permanent civil servant in another body of the State, a territorial employment manager or a hospital body before your appointment as a civil servant trainee, your secondment for traineeship is terminated and you are reinstated in your original body or employment manager.
You are not entitled to any severance pay.
FPT
The internship is a probationary period, i.e. a probationary period, the purpose of which is to enable the employer’s administration to ensure that you demonstrate professional capacity to perform the duties corresponding to your grade.
According to the body in which you are appointed as a public servant trainee, the probationary period may include a period of compulsory training.
At the end of the probationary period, you are eligible to become a permanent civil servant.
You are appointed as a probationary public servant when you are recruited into the territorial public service as a result of contest or a procedure for recruitment without competition.
You may also be appointed as a probationary official in career when you change employment framework as a result of a competition or internal promotion.
The special status of an official may provide for a probationary period to be waived for an official already in possession of at least 2 years of actual public service in a post of the same nature.
If you are already a full civil servant and subject to a traineeship, you remain in your previous grade and are seconded for traineeship in your new grade.
If the special status of your new job manager provides for an exemption from internship, you are directly established in your new grade.
You can request a deferral of your appointment as a probationary official if you are already a full civil servant and you find yourself in one of the following situations at the time of your appointment:
- You benefit from a parental attendance leave
- Or you get a caregiver leave.
Your appointment as a probationary public servant may be postponed until the end of your leave.
If you are contract on permanent employment, you may be appointed as a probationary official by the territorial authority, no later than the end of your contract, if your appointment as a probationary public servant is to take place in a framework of jobs whose missions include the job you hold.
Your internship can take place on your workstation and include training periods, in particular in the National Specialized Institutes of Territorial Studies (Inset) if you are appointed as a trainee civil servant Category A after competition (excluding police and fire departments)
If you are appointed as a public servant trainee in one of the following job frameworks, you are appointed by the CNFPT: titleContent and complete your internship at the Institut national des études territoriales (Inet):
- Administrators
- Chief Engineers
- Heritage Curators
- Curators of libraries.
Your internship at the Inet includes periods of theoretical training and periods of work in the community.
The normal duration of the internship is set at 1 year, unless otherwise provided for in the particular Staff Regulations of the employment framework in which you are appointed as an intern.
If, at the end of the normal probationary period, your professional skills are not considered sufficient to allow your tenure, your probationary period may be extended for a maximum of one year.
FYI
When your internship is extended, the extension period is not taken into account in calculating your seniority at the time of your tenure, but it is taken into account for retirement.
You can request permission to work part-time for the same reasons and under the same conditions as a regular civil servant, unless you have to complete a probationary period in a training institution (Inet or Inset) or if your probationary period includes professional education.
If you are doing your internship part-time, the length of your internship is then increased proportionally to be equivalent to that of a full-time probationary official.
Thus, depending on your part-time quota, the duration of your internship is as follows:
Amount of working time | Duration of the internship |
|---|---|
90% | 1 year 1 month 10 days |
80% | 1 year 3 months |
70% | 1 year 5 months 4 days |
60% | 1 year 8 months |
50% | 2 years |
You are paid on the basis of 1er step of your rank.
If you were already a regular public servant before being appointed as a probationary public servant, you can choose to retain, during the probationary period, the salary to which you were entitled in your original employment or corps.
If you are appointed as an intern in a category A position, and you were previously a civil servant or a contract worker, you will receive the salary corresponding to your previous situation if this salary is higher than that to which you are entitled in the position in which you are appointed as an intern.
The index salary thus received is at most equal to that corresponding to the last step of the grade to which you are appointed trainee.
Your past service is taken into account in accordance with the provisions of the particular status of the employment framework in which you are appointed as an intern and determines the step to which you are classified and your remuneration.
As a probationary public servant, you have the same rights and obligations as a regular public servant:
- Non-discrimination
- Right to health protection
- Functional protection
- Trade union rights
- Right to strike
- Obligation of hierarchical obedience
- Duty of reserve, duty of professional discretion, professional secrecy
- Compliance with the rules of cumulation of activity.
Your employer's administration must provide you with essential information and rules concerning the performance of your duties.
You are entitled to leave and special leave of absence to which staff members are entitled on the same terms and conditions as regular staff members insofar as such leave, special leave of absence and conditions are compatible with your particular situation.
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Annual leave and leave of absence
You are entitled to annual leave of the same duration and under the same conditions as a regular official.
You are also entitled to leave of absence, in particular for family reasons, under the same conditions as a regular civil servant: for childcare or sick child, if you marry or you pass, at the death of a relative.
Reminder
As a trainee civil servant, you cannot open a time savings account (CET). If you already have a TEC (as a regular or contract civil servant before your appointment as a trainee) you cannot use the days saved or save days during your traineeship.
Leave for health reasons
When your health condition requires it, you can take one of the following leave:
- Sick leave
- Long-term Sick Leave (LSL)
- Long Term Leave (LTL)
- Temporary Disability Leave Due to Service - Citis.
If, at the end of a leave for health reasons, you are unable to resume your duties, you can be placed on unpaid leave, for a maximum of one year renewable twice.
Unpaid leave and its renewal shall be ordered after the medical advice.
If, at the end of paid sick leave or a period of unpaid sick leave, you are found permanently unfit to resume your duties, you shall be dismissed.
However, if you are a permanent civil servant in another employment or corps, your secondment for probation is terminated and you are made available to your home administration.
You may be allowed to resume your work at part-time for therapeutic reasons under the same conditions as a regular civil servant unless your internship involves vocational training or must be completed in a training institute.
Leave for family reasons
You can benefit, at your request, from unpaid leave of a maximum of one year, renewable twice for the following reasons:
- Caring for your spouse or partner Civil partnerships: titleContent, a child or a ascending as a result of an accident or serious illness
- Giving care to a dependent child, your Civil partnership partner or an ascendant with a disability that requires the presence of a third party
- Raising a child under 12
- Follow your husband or Civil partnership partner who has to move for work reasons to a location far from where you work.
You must apply to resume your duties at least 2 months before the end of your current leave.
You can also take the following leave:
- Leave of absence maternity or of adoption
- 3-day leave for the birth or arrival of a child placed for adoption
- Paternity and childcare leave.
You can also take the following holidays:
- Parental Leave : if you are a regular civil servant in another employment context, seconded for internship, your home community is informed of the start and end dates of this leave
- Family solidarity leave
- Parental Presence Leave
- Caregiver Leave.
Leave for personal convenience
You can be placed at your request and subject to service requirements, on leave for personal convenience for up to 3 months.
The leave is unpaid.
Leave to prepare for or admit to a competition
You can apply for unpaid leave if you are admitted:
- To a cycle preparatory to a competition for admission to the civil service, to the international civil service, to a post as an official of parliamentary assemblies, a magistrate of the judicial order or a military officer
- Or in a training institution through which the recruitment of civil servants, magistrates of the judicial order and military personnel takes place
- Or to a competition for admission to the civil service, to the international civil service, to a post as an official of the parliamentary assemblies, as a magistrate of the judicial order or as a member of the military
The leave ends at the end of the probationary period, school or preparatory cycle for the accomplishment of which you were granted the leave.
You cannot take more than one leave at the same time for these reasons.
Annual leave has no effect on the length of your internship.
If you have been granted parental leave, the end date of your probationary period shall be postponed by a number of working days equal to the number of days and, where applicable, half-days of parental leave used.
The same applies if you have been on family solidarity leave or a caregiver's leave.
The total duration of paid leave of any kind from which you have benefited other than annual leave is taken into account as probationary time only for one 10e the duration of the internship. If the total duration of such paid leave exceeds 10e the duration of your internship, your internship is extended by the same amount.
However, if you have been granted maternity or adoption leave, 3 days' leave for the birth or arrival of a child placed for adoption or paternity and childcare leave, your tenure takes effect on the date of the end of the statutory duration of the probationary period, excluding the extension due to your leave.
Example :
You are appointed as an intern for one year of 1er June to May 31 of the following year and you receive a maternity leave of 112 days during your internship. Your internship is extended by 76 days (112 - 36 days – one 10e of one year). The decision of tenure will only take place from August 16 given the extension of your internship but will take effect on June 1.
If your internship is interrupted for more than one year due to successive leaves of any kind other than annual leave, your employer community may ask you to complete the entire internship again unless you have completed at least half the duration of the internship before its interruption.
At the end of your probationary period, if your employing community determines that you have demonstrated the professional skills required to perform the duties corresponding to your rank, you are tenured.
If not, you are dismissed for professional insufficiency.
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Titularization
At the end of your probationary period, you will be appointed if your employer administration considers that you have the professional skills required to perform the duties corresponding to your grade.
Your administration issues a tenure order.
If you were already a regular public servant in another government agency, a territorial employment executive or a hospital department before your appointment as a probationary public servant, you become the holder of the rank to which you were appointed as a probationary public servant and you lose your former rank.
If you belonged to the territorial or hospital public service, you are removed from the executive category in your employment or your home body.
Dismissal for occupational insufficiency
If your employer administration determines that you do not have the professional skills required to perform the duties corresponding to your grade, it may dismiss you for professional insufficiency.
Your employer administration may dismiss you for professional insufficiency in progress or at the end of your internship.
Your employer administration may dismiss you for professional insufficiency in the course of an internship if you have performed at least half of your internship.
To pronounce your dismissal, your employer administration must follow the same procedure as that provided for in the event of disciplinary sanction, unless your professional competence is to be assessed by a jury.
Thus, the dismissal decision is subject to the prior opinion of the Joint Administrative Commission (JAC).
You are entitled to full disclosure of your individual file and all supporting documents.
The administration must inform you of this right.
During the procedure, you are entitled to the assistance of the defenders of your choice.
If you were already a permanent civil servant in another territorial employment framework or in a state or hospital corps before your appointment as a probationary civil servant, your secondment for probationary period is terminated and you are reinstated in your original employment framework or corps.
You are not entitled to any severance pay.
FPH
The internship is a probationary period, i.e. a probationary period, the purpose of which is to enable the employer’s administration to ensure that you demonstrate professional capacity to perform the duties corresponding to your grade.
According to the body in which you are appointed as a public servant trainee, the probationary period may include a period of compulsory training.
At the end of the probationary period, you are eligible to become a permanent civil servant.
You are appointed as a probationary public servant when you are recruited into the hospital public service as a result of contest or a procedure for recruitment without competition.
You may also be appointed as a probationary official in career when you change body as a result of a competition or internal promotion.
For example, internship waivers are provided for winners of internal competitions for access to category C hospital bodies.
If you are already a full civil servant and subject to a traineeship, you remain in your previous grade and are seconded for traineeship in your new grade.
If the special status of your new corps provides for an exemption from probationary periods, you are directly admitted to your new rank.
Where your appointment as a probationary official occurs as a result of your admission to a competition or as a result of your internal promotion, you may, in certain cases, request the postponement of your appointment.
This means that you can request a deferral of your appointment if your appointment is not possible due to your health condition.
You must provide a medical certificate issued by a licensed physician.
In the event of a challenge to the medical certificate by the appointing authority, the request for postponement shall be submitted to the medical advice.
You can also request a deferral of your appointment as a probationary official if you are pregnant.
Whether you request a deferral of your appointment as a probationary public servant because of your medical condition or because of your pregnancy condition, the deferral cannot exceed one year.
However, when the internship takes place in a school or training institute, your appointment may be postponed to the date of entry into training of the next promotion.
You can also request a deferral of your appointment as a probationary public servant if you meet the following 3 conditions:
- You reside in an overseas territory on the date of your admission to the contest or internal promotion
- And you must begin, within less than 2 months of your admission, a probationary period or a period of training in the metropolitan area
- And you justify difficulties of installation in metropolitan France related to your personal or family situation.
This deferral may not exceed one year. However, when the internship takes place in a school or training institute, your appointment may be postponed to the date of entry into training of the next promotion.
It is also possible to request the postponement of your appointment as a probationary official if you are already a full civil servant and you are in one of the following situations at the time of your appointment as a probationary official:
- You are in parental leave
- Or you're in parental attendance leave
- Or you're in caregiver leave.
Your appointment as a probationary public servant may be postponed until the end of your leave.
General rules
Your internship can take place on your workstation and include training periods.
It can also take place in a training school (EHESP).
During your internship, you may not be transferred, seconded, made available or made available.
In the event of the absence of the probationary official from one or more assessment tests
If the internship takes place in whole or in part at the École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique, and if you are absent for a serious reason from an exam sanctioned by a grade or another form of evaluation, you are authorized to take a new exam or evaluation organized by the EHESP.
If the EHESP is unable to organize a new test, you will be assigned the grade corresponding to the average or median of the scores obtained by the other probationary officials. The scoring method chosen is set by ministerial decree.
At the end of the training, the jury (or the competent body) examines whether your absences from the tests or evaluations that could not be replaced prevent the assessment of your aptitude, in particular on the basis of the number of your absences and your results in the tests or evaluations in which you participated.
If the jury (or the competent body) considers that your ability to perform the duties corresponding to your grade cannot be assessed, you are entitled to complete all or part of the training period at a later date.
In case of pregnancy
When the internship takes place at the Graduate School of Public Health and when you inform the school of your pregnancy status, the EHESP receives you in an interview to inform you of your rights.
The EHESP offers accommodation measures compatible with the course of your training.
The normal duration of the internship is set at 1 year, unless otherwise provided for in the particular Staff Regulations of the employment framework in which you are appointed as an intern.
If, at the end of the normal probationary period, your professional skills are not considered sufficient to allow your tenure, your probationary period may be extended for a maximum of one year.
FYI
When your internship is extended, the extension period is not taken into account in calculating your seniority at the time of your tenure, but it is taken into account for retirement.
You can request permission to work part-time for the same reasons and under the same conditions as a regular civil servant, unless you have to complete a probationary period in a training institution (Inet or Inset) or if your probationary period includes professional education.
If you are doing your internship part-time, the length of your internship is then increased proportionally to be equivalent to that of a full-time probationary official.
Thus, depending on your part-time quota, the duration of your internship is as follows:
Amount of working time | Duration of the internship |
|---|---|
90% | 1 year 1 month 10 days |
80% | 1 year 3 months |
70% | 1 year 5 months 4 days |
60% | 1 year 8 months |
50% | 2 years |
You are paid on the basis of 1er step of the starting grade of the body in which you are appointed as trainee unless the particular status of your body provides for other rules.
If you were already a regular public servant before being appointed as a probationary public servant, you can choose to retain, during the probationary period, the salary to which you were entitled in your original body or employment.
The maintenance of your previous index treatment is possible within the limit of the index treatment to which you can claim during your tenure.
Your previous service is taken into account in accordance with the provisions of the particular status of the corps in which you are appointed as a trainee and determines the step to which you are classified and your remuneration.
As a probationary public servant, you have the same rights and obligations as a regular public servant:
- Non-discrimination
- Right to health protection
- Functional protection
- Trade union rights
- Right to strike
- Obligation of hierarchical obedience
- Duty of reserve, duty of professional discretion, professional secrecy
- Compliance with the rules of cumulation of activity.
Your employer's administration must provide you with essential information and rules concerning the performance of your duties.
You are entitled to leave and special leave of absence to which staff members are entitled on the same terms and conditions as regular staff members insofar as such leave, special leave of absence and conditions are compatible with your particular situation.
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Annual leave and leave of absence
You are entitled to annual leave of the same duration and under the same conditions as a regular official.
You are also entitled to leave of absence, in particular for family reasons, under the same conditions as a regular civil servant: for childcare or sick child, if you marry or you pass, at the death of a relative.
Reminder
As a trainee civil servant, you cannot open a time savings account (CET).
However, if you already have a TEC (as a regular or contract official before your appointment as a trainee) you can continue to fund your time savings account if your traineeship consists exclusively of the actual exercise of the tasks corresponding to your grade.
Leave for health reasons
When your health condition requires it, you can take one of the following leave:
- Sick leave
- Long-term Sick Leave (LSL)
- Long Term Leave (LTL)
- Temporary Disability Leave Due to Service - Citis (up to a maximum of 5 years if you are not a permanent civil servant in another body or employment).
If, at the end of a leave for health reasons, you are unable to resume your duties, you can be placed on unpaid leave, for a maximum of one year renewable twice.
Unpaid leave and its renewal shall be ordered after the medical advice.
If the medical board considers that you will be fit to resume your duties during the 4e year, your unpaid leave can be renewed a 3e times.
If, at the end of paid sick leave or a period of unpaid sick leave, you are found permanently unfit to resume your duties, you shall be dismissed.
However, if you are a permanent civil servant in another body or employment, your secondment for probation is terminated and you are made available to your home administration.
You may be allowed to resume your work at part-time for therapeutic reasons under the same conditions as a regular civil servant unless your internship involves professional education or must be completed at the school of advanced studies in public health.
Leave for family reasons
You can benefit, at your request, from unpaid leave of a maximum of one year, renewable twice for the following reasons:
- Caring for your spouse or partner Civil partnerships: titleContent, a child or a ascending as a result of an accident or serious illness
- Giving care to a dependent child, your Civil partnership partner or an ascendant with a disability that requires the presence of a third party
- Raising a child under 12
- Follow your husband or Civil partnership partner who has to move for work reasons to a location far from where you work.
You must apply to resume your duties at least 2 months before the end of your current leave.
You can also take the following leave:
- Leave of absence maternity or of adoption
- 3-day leave for the birth or arrival of a child placed for adoption
- Paternity and childcare leave.
You can also take the following holidays:
- Parental Leave : if you are a permanent civil servant in another body or employment, seconded on probation, that secondment shall be terminated during your parental leave. You are automatically reinstated on secondment at the end of your parental leave for the remainder of the period of the internship to be completed.
- Family solidarity leave
- Parental Presence Leave
- Caregiver Leave.
Leave to prepare for or admit to a competition
You can apply for unpaid leave if you are admitted:
- To a cycle preparatory to a competition for admission to the civil service, to the international civil service, to a post as an official of parliamentary assemblies, a magistrate of the judicial order or a military officer
- Or in a training institution through which the recruitment of civil servants, magistrates of the judicial order and military personnel takes place
- Or to a competition for admission to the civil service, to the international civil service, to a post as an official of the parliamentary assemblies, as a magistrate of the judicial order or as a member of the military
The leave ends at the end of the probationary period, school or preparatory cycle for the accomplishment of which you were granted the leave.
You cannot take more than one leave at the same time for these reasons.
Annual leave has no effect on the length of your internship.
If you have been granted parental leave, the end date of your probationary period shall be postponed by a number of working days equal to the number of days and, where applicable, half-days of parental leave used.
The same applies if you have been on family solidarity leave or a caregiver's leave.
The total duration of paid leave of any kind from which you have benefited other than annual leave is taken into account as probationary time only for one 10e the duration of the internship. If the total duration of such paid leave exceeds 10e the duration of your internship, your internship is extended by the same amount.
However, if you have been granted maternity or adoption leave, 3 days' leave for the birth or arrival of a child placed for adoption or paternity and childcare leave, your tenure takes effect on the date of the end of the statutory duration of the probationary period, excluding the extension due to your leave.
Example :
You are appointed as an intern for one year of 1er June to May 31 of the following year and you receive a maternity leave of 112 days during your internship. Your internship is extended by 76 days (112 - 36 days – one 10e of one year). The decision of tenure will only take place from August 16 given the extension of your internship but will take effect on June 1.
If your probationary period is interrupted for at least 3 years due to successive holidays of any kind, other than annual leave, you must resume your entire probationary period at the end of your last leave.
If your internship is interrupted for less than 3 years, you may not be admitted to the full term until you have completed the additional period of internship necessary to reach the normal duration of the internship provided for by the particular status of your body.
At the end of your probationary period, if your employing institution considers that you have demonstrated the professional skills required to perform the duties corresponding to your grade, you are tenured.
If not, you are dismissed for professional insufficiency.
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Titularization
At the end of your probationary period, you will be appointed if your employer administration considers that you have the professional skills required to perform the duties corresponding to your grade.
Your administration issues a tenure order.
If you were already a regular public servant in another government agency, a territorial employment executive or a hospital department before your appointment as a probationary public servant, you become the holder of the rank to which you were appointed as a probationary public servant and you lose your former rank.
If you belonged to the territorial or hospital public service, you are removed from the executive category in your employment or your home body.
Dismissal for occupational insufficiency
If your employer administration determines that you do not have the professional skills required to perform the duties corresponding to your grade, it may dismiss you for professional insufficiency.
Your employer administration may dismiss you for professional insufficiency in progress or at the end of your internship.
Your employer administration may dismiss you for professional insufficiency in the course of an internship if you have performed at least half of your internship.
To pronounce your dismissal, your employer administration must follow the same procedure as that provided for in the event of disciplinary sanction, unless your professional competence is to be assessed by a jury.
Thus, the dismissal decision is subject to the prior opinion of the Joint Administrative Commission (JAC).
You are entitled to full disclosure of your individual file and all supporting documents.
The administration must inform you of this right.
During the procedure, you are entitled to the assistance of the defenders of your choice.
If you were already a full-time public servant in another hospital corps, a territorial employment cadre or a government corps before your appointment as a probationary public servant, your probationary secondment is terminated and you are reinstated in your original corps or cadre of employment.
You are not entitled to any severance pay.
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