Conditions for reassignment of a public official whose employment is terminated
Verified 01 August 2026 - Public Service / (Prime Minister)
Are you a civil servant or a contractor and your job is being abolished? You benefit from a support system to allow you to find a job. The system varies depending on whether you are a civil servant or a contract worker CDI: titleContent or in CDD: titleContent and according to your public service (state - EPF, territorial - FPT, hospital - FPH).
EPF
If your job is terminated, you are reclassified under conditions that vary depending on whether or not the termination of your job is part of a service restructuring.
Staff on reassignment in the event of job loss
If you are incumbent official and if your job is eliminated due to the restructuring of your service, you will receive support to help you find a job.
The purpose of the support devices is to allow you to find:
- A job corresponding to your grade
- Or a job under another body or framework of jobs at a level at least equivalent to your original body
- Or, at your request, a private sector job.
If you are contract in CDI and if your job is cut because of the restructuring of your service, you also benefit from support to help you find a job.
FYI
Accompanying arrangements may also concern all officials of the same body.
Designation of the department concerned by a restructuring
When a service is restructured, a ministerial order defines it scope and duration.
The duration implementation of the accompanying arrangements cannot exceed 3 years.
The ministerial decree may provide for the possibility of benefiting from the service restructuring bonus, the spouse's mobility allowance and, if you are a civil servant, the accompanying allowance supplement.
The ministerial decree may also provide for the possibility of benefiting from voluntary severance pay. He is entitled to unemployment benefits.
Information to the staff member concerned by a restructuring
If you are involved in a restructuring operation, you will be informed by all means of personalized support conditions implemented.
These accompanying arrangements are as follows:
- Information on support and training programs and advice on their mobilization in the context of your professional project
- Taking stock of your professional career
- Elaboration of a professional project within a State, territorial or hospital administration or, at your request, to the private sector
- Information and advice, taking into account your skills and the availability of positions in the short and medium term, especially in your job pool.
Accompanying measures for the staff member concerned by a restructuring
As part of the support implemented by the administration, you can benefit from the following measures:
- Personalized support in the development and implementation of a professional project and priority access to training
- Work Transition Leave of a maximum duration of one year, allowing to follow long training necessary for the exercise of a new profession with a public employer of State, territorial or hospital or in the private sector
- Making available, with a view to retraining with a private body or company for a maximum period of one year
- Priority access to the training needed to implement your professional project
- Priority of mutation or detachment (only if you are a civil servant).
Conditions of assignment in a post of the same grade
You are posted to a vacancy corresponding to your rank in your ministerial department in the department where your administrative residence is located.
You can apply for a priority transfer or secondment in any vacancy corresponding to your grade in your ministerial department, throughout the national territory.
In the absence of a vacancy corresponding to your grade in your ministerial department, you shall have priority for assignment or secondment to vacant posts corresponding to your rank in another ministerial department in the department of your administrative residence.
If there are no vacancies in your department, you will be given priority assignment or secondment to vacancies in another ministerial department in your region.
Vacancies available from another ministerial department shall be limited to a percentage of the vacancies in the relevant ministerial department. A ministerial decree sets, each year, the maximum number of jobs per ministerial department or public institution accessible.
Transfer or secondment to a post in another ministerial department shall be pronounced:
- By the Director General of Administration and Public Service after consultation with the Secretary General of the department of assignment if you are assigned to headquarters
- By the regional prefect, on the proposal of the regional platform for interministerial support for human resources management, after consultation with the head of the assignment service, in other cases.
When you are posted or seconded to a job in another ministry department, you will automatically benefit from personalized support beforehand.
Priority access to training
You have priority access to the training necessary to implement your professional project.
Where the training envisaged is insured by your employer administration, you automatically benefit from it.
When several training courses can satisfy your request, your employer administration may decide to have you attend the training it provides itself.
Where the training envisaged is not not insured by your employer administration, the conditions for the implementation of priority access shall be specified by ministerial order.
This decree may define funding ceilings.
You must send the training certificates, justifying your attendance to your employer administration. You lose the benefit of these trainings if you stop taking them, without legitimate reason.
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You are a civil servant
If you are incumbent official, you are assigned to a new job corresponding to your grade, if necessary in temporary excess.
If you are probationary official, you have no right to reclassification. If your employer administration does not have a vacancy corresponding to your grade, you will be dismissed.
You are a contractor
You can be reclassified to another job in the same way hierarchical category or, with your consent, in a job of a lower category.
The redeployment offer concerns jobs under the authority that recruited you.
If you are in CDD: titleContent, the reclassification job is offered for the remaining period before the end of your contract.
Your employer administration invites you to a preliminary interview by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or hand delivery against signature.
This letter indicates the purpose of the summons.
The preliminary interview can not take place less than 5 working days after receipt of the letter of invitation.
During the interview, you can be accompanied by the person(s) of your choice.
During the interview, your administration will inform you of the period within which you must submit a written request for reclassification and the conditions under which the reclassification offers are presented to you.
Offers for reclassification must be written and precise. The jobs offered must be compatible with your professional skills.
If you refuse to take advantage of the reclassification procedure or if you do not submit your reclassification application within the prescribed period, you will be dismissed after a period of notice.
The length of the notice period depends on your seniority:
Seniority of services | Length of notice period |
|---|---|
Less than 6 months of service | 8 days |
Between 6 months and 2 years | 1 month |
At least 2 years | 2 months |
Your seniority is counted until the date of dispatch of the letter of dismissal.
It is calculated taking into account all your contracts, including in case of interruption of functions between 2 contracts less than 4 months if the interruption is not due to a resignation.
The notice period begins on the day of submission of the registered letter of dismissal with acknowledgement of receipt.
If you have made a request for reclassification and no job offer can be made to you before the end of the notice period, you are placed on unpaid leave for a maximum of 3 months at the end of the notice period. A certificate of suspension of your employment contract due to the administration is issued.
During the 3-month period, you can, at any time, reconsider your request for reclassification. You are then dismissed.
In case of refusal of the job proposed by the administration or in case of impossibility of reclassification during the unpaid leave of 3 months, you are dismissed.
You are entitled to unemployment benefits.
FPT
Officials receiving reclassification in the event of termination of their employment
The conditions for reassignment to a job vary depending on whether you are a permanent civil servant or a trainee.
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Incumbent
Your employer community is looking for opportunities to reclassify you.
If you hold one or more permanent jobs at incomplete time, the change in the number of hours worked per week in a non-full-time job shall not be treated as its abolition if the following conditions are met:
- This change does not exceed 10% the number of working hours of the job concerned
- And this change does not reduce your total number of hours of work to less than 28 hours per week.
Please note
Territorial employment may be abolished only after the opinion of the Territorial Social Committee.
Special provisions are provided for officials in functional managerial, managerial or expert posts in category A.
Trainee civil servant
If you are probationary official, you have no right to reclassification. If your employing community does not have a vacancy corresponding to your grade, it is placed on your internship.
If you have been appointed as an intern following your admission to a competition, you can ask be reinstated on the list of suitable candidates drawn up at the end of the competition.
You may remain registered for a total period of 4 years from your initial registration following your admission to the competition.
The counting of the 4-year period shall be suspended for the following periods:
- Parental, maternity, adoption, parental presence and family solidarity leave
- Long-term leave
- Fulfillment of a mandate as a local elected official
- Recruitment as a contract staff member to replace an official or other contract staff member who is part-time or temporarily absent (due to sick leave, maternity leave, etc.) if you are on a list of suitable candidates for a post whose tasks correspond to the post on which you are recruited as a contract staff member
- Commitment to civic service.
To be reinstated on the list of aptitude la 3e and the 4e For years, you must submit a written request to the management center or CNFPT.
If no competition is organized within the 4-year period, you can remain on the list of suitable candidates beyond 4 years until the date of organization of a new competition.
If you hold one or more permanent jobs at incomplete time, the change in the number of hours worked per week in a non-full-time job shall not be treated as its abolition if the following conditions are met:
- This change does not exceed 10% the number of working hours of the job concerned
- And this change does not reduce your total number of hours of work to less than 28 hours per week.
Please note
Territorial employment may be abolished only after the opinion of the Territorial Social Committee.
Assignment of the staff member to a vacant post or retention in oversupply
Your employer community reassigns you to a vacancy corresponding to your grade, or with your agreement, on a vacancy in another employment framework.
If there is no job vacancy or if you refuse to be reassigned to another job, you are maintained in excess for 1 year within the services of your employer community.
During this one-year period, your employer community will:
- She offers you as a priority any job corresponding to your grade that she creates or that becomes vacant
- She's studying the possibility of you detach or you integrate directly on a job in another employment framework equivalent to your previous job
- It examines the possibilities of activity on a job corresponding to your grade or on an equivalent job in the 3 public functions.
The CNFPT regional or interdepartmental delegation and the management center are also reviewing the possibilities for reclassification.
Management center or CNFPT support for staff member
At the end of the one-year oversupply period, if you have not been reassigned to a job, you are supported by the management center or the CNFPT: titleContent, if you belong to one of the following job managers:
- Administrators
- Chief Engineers
- Heritage Curators
- Library Curators
- Professional Fire Fighter Design and Leadership Jobs Framework.
During the period of care, you are placed under the authority of the management center (or CNFPT).
You remain subject to the same rights and obligations as any public servant.
The management center (or CNFPT) may entrust you with missions, including as part of a making available.
The management center (or CNFPT) offers you any vacancy corresponding to your grade within its services.
You are also kept informed of any jobs created or declared vacant by the management center (or CNFPT).
You have to be accountable every 6 months of your active job search, in particular by communicating the applications which you have submitted or to which you have submitted yourself spontaneously and the interview certificates for recruitment.
Personalized project back to work
Within 3 months of the start of your care, you and the management center (or CNFPT) jointly develop a personalized project to promote your return to work.
This project sets out the orientation, training and evaluation measures that you must follow.
You benefit from priority access to long-term training required to pursue a new profession in one of the 3 public functions or in the private sector.
If your job is terminated as a result of a reorganization within the framework of the creation of an inter-municipal cooperation institution, you must follow all the orientation, training and evaluation actions intended to promote your reclassification that the management center (or CNFPT) must offer you.
Remuneration of staff member during the period of assumption by the management center or CNFPT
The 1re year of care, you receive your index treatment (and your residence allowance if you receive this additional remuneration) in full.
Your index salary and residence allowance are then reduced by 10% every year.
When the remuneration becomes nil, you are dismissed or, retired, if you meet the conditions to benefit from a full retirement pension.
The family treatment supplement (FTS) you are paid in full, if you receive this additional remuneration.
During the assignments that may be entrusted to you, your index salary and your residence allowance are restored to 100% or up to the remuneration due in the case of part-time work, if you work part-time during the assignment.
You can benefit from the compensation scheme in effect at the management center or CNFPT.
Assignment periods are taken into account in the calculation of the one-year periods at the end of which your index salary and your residence allowance are reduced by 10%.
In case of cumulation of activities, your net remuneration is reduced by the amount of the net remuneration received in respect of the cumulative activity.
Effects of management center/CNFPT management on staff member's career
You compete for grade advancement and the internal promotion with the staff of the management center (or CNFPT) in the same employment framework as yours.
Your way of serving in the assignments that may be entrusted to you is taken into account for internal promotion and advancement of step and grade.
The same applies in the case of secondment.
Your way of serving is also taken into account in establishing your professional evaluation.
If you are placed on standby, secondment or parental leave while in care, your home community must consider, when you are reinstated, the possibility of reclassifying you to a job of your rank.
In the absence of a reclassification, you remain supported by the management center or CNFPT.
End of management center or CNFPT support
Your support ceases in the following situations:
- You find a job in one of the 3 public functions or in the private sector
- You meet the conditions to benefit from a full rate pension
- Your remuneration is became equal to zero : you are dismissed or retired if you qualify for a full-rate pension
- After 3 rejections of job offer corresponding to your grade: you are dismissed or retired if you qualify for a full pension. Only one job offer from your home community is included in this count. If you are a category C civil servant, the jobs you have refused must be in the department where you were previously employed or a neighboring department
- After 2 rejections of job offer if your job was terminated due to a service delegation and if you have refused to be posted to a job similar to your original job with the delegated service: you are dismissed or retired if you meet the conditions for a full-rate pension
- In case of serious and repeated non-compliance with your obligations, in particular to submit to the follow-up and reclassification actions implemented by the management center (or CNFPT): you are then dismissed or retired if you meet the conditions for a full-time pension
If you are dismissed, you are entitled to unemployment benefits.
Any job offer must be firm and precise.
It must consist of a hiring proposal containing elements relating to the nature of the job and the remuneration.
The proposed position must correspond to the functions you have previously performed or those defined by the specific status of your employment manager.
It may be a full-time or incomplete job offer depending on the nature of your original job.
You can be reclassified to another job in the same way hierarchical category or, with your consent, in a job of a lower category.
The reclassification offer concerns jobs under the territorial authority that recruited you.
If you are in CDD: titleContent, the reclassification job is offered for the remaining period before the end of your contract.
Your employer administration invites you to a preliminary interview by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or hand delivery against signature.
This letter indicates the purpose of the summons.
The preliminary interview can not take place less than 5 working days after receipt of the letter of invitation.
During the interview, you can be accompanied by the person(s) of your choice.
During the interview, your administration will inform you of the period within which you must submit a written request for reclassification and the conditions under which the reclassification offers are presented to you.
Offers for reclassification must be written and precise. The jobs offered must be compatible with your professional skills.
If you refuse to take advantage of the reclassification procedure or if you do not submit your reclassification application within the prescribed period, you will be dismissed after a period of notice.
The length of the notice period depends on your seniority:
Seniority of services | Length of notice period |
|---|---|
Less than 6 months of service | 8 days |
Between 6 months and 2 years | 1 month |
At least 2 years | 2 months |
These durations are doubled if you are disabled beneficiary the obligation of employment.
Your seniority is counted until the date of dispatch of the letter of dismissal.
It is calculated taking into account all your contracts, including in case of interruption of functions between 2 contracts less than 4 months if the interruption is not due to a resignation.
The notice period begins on the day of submission of the registered letter of dismissal with acknowledgement of receipt.
If you have made a request for reclassification and no job offer can be made to you before the end of the notice period, you are placed on unpaid leave for a maximum of 3 months at the end of the notice period. A certificate of suspension of your employment contract due to the administration is issued.
During the 3-month period, you can, at any time, reconsider your request for reclassification. You are then dismissed.
In case of refusal of the job proposed by the administration or in case of impossibility of reclassification during the unpaid leave of 3 months, you are dismissed.
You are entitled to unemployment benefits.
FPH
Officials receiving reclassification in the event of termination of their employment
The conditions for reassignment to a job vary depending on whether you are a permanent civil servant or a trainee.
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Incumbent
If your employer institution has a vacant job corresponding to your grade, you are reassigned to that job.
In the absence of a vacant job, you are kept in operation by your institution if you do not meet the conditions to benefit from full retirement pension.
You benefit from support to help you find a job.
The purpose of the support devices is to allow you to find:
- A job corresponding to your grade
- Or a job under another body or framework of jobs at a level at least equivalent to your original body
- Or, at your request, a private sector job.
Please note
A hospital job may be abolished only after the opinion of the social committee of establishment.
Specific provisions are provided for civil servants in functional managerial positions.
Trainee civil servant
If you are probationary official, you have no right to reclassification. If your employer institution does not have a vacancy corresponding to your grade, it is placed on your probation.
Please note
A hospital job may be abolished only after the opinion of the social committee of establishment.
Accompanying measures for officials whose employment is abolished
As part of the support provided, you can benefit from the following measures:
- Taking stock of your professional career
- Elaboration of a professional project within an administration (state, territorial or hospital) or, at your request, to the private sector and communication of information and advice, taking into account your skills and the offer of jobs in the short and medium term, especially in your home territory
- Support in your efforts to find a job
- Priority access to the training needed to implement your professional project
- Work Transition Leave to take a training course or a training course with a view to pursuing a new occupation in the public service or in the private sector.
You can benefit from the support system from the date on which the termination of your employment is notified.
The scheme ends at one of the following events:
- Assignment to a job corresponding to your grade
- Or assignment to a post in another body or framework of posts of at least equivalent level
- Or secondment, lay-off or parental leave
- Or removal of executives (for retirement or resignation in particular).
Priority access to training
As part of your priority access to training, you automatically receive training when it is organized as part of your institution's training plan or funded by your institution.
When several training courses meet your request, your employer institution may decide to have you follow the training courses listed in the institution's training plan.
When the training envisaged is not organized as part of your institution's training plan or financed by your institution, the conditions for implementing priority access, and possibly the definition of a funding ceiling, are specified by your head of institution as part of the collective support system.
You must send your institution the training certificates justifying your attendance. You lose the benefit if you stop following them without a legitimate reason.
Priority of recruitment in a hospital facility
If a public hospital located in your home department has a vacancy corresponding to your grade, this institution will proceed to your recruitment at the request of theARS: titleContent.
Your recruitment will take place within a maximum of 30 days of the ARS's consultation with the head of the establishment.
You can apply for priority recruitment on any vacancy corresponding to your grade in a public hospital located in your home department or region. In this case, you send your application to the recruiting institution mentioning your recruitment priority. You inform the ARS of this application. The head of the recruiting establishment shall inform your head of the establishment of origin of his/her recruitment decision. You benefit from a personalized support automatically beforehand.
Provision in the private sector
You can benefit, at your request, from a making available with a private sector organization or company, for a maximum period of one year, for your professional retraining.
Establishment reorganization
If your job is terminated as part of the reorganization of your establishment or one or more of its services and if you are in CDI: titleContent , you benefit from support to find a job.
The duration of the reorganization operation cannot exceed 3 years.
As part of the support provided, you can benefit from the following measures:
- Taking stock of your professional career
- Elaboration of a professional project within an administration (state, territorial or hospital) or, at your request, to the private sector and communication of information and advice, taking into account your skills and the offer of jobs in the short and medium term, especially in your home territory
- Support in your efforts to find a job
- Priority access to the training needed to implement your professional project
- Work Transition Leave to take a training course or a training course with a view to pursuing a new occupation in the public service or in the private sector.
Your institution informs you about these devices and advises you on their use in the context of your professional project.
As part of your priority access to training, you automatically receive training when it is organized as part of your institution's training plan or funded by your institution.
When several training courses meet your request, your employer institution may decide to have you follow the training courses listed in the institution's training plan.
When the training envisaged is not organized as part of your institution's training plan or financed by your institution, the conditions for implementing priority access, and possibly the definition of a funding ceiling, are specified by your head of institution as part of the collective support system.
You must send your institution the training certificates justifying your attendance. You lose the benefit if you stop following them without a legitimate reason.
Other situation
You can be reclassified to another job in the same way hierarchical category or, with your consent, in a job of a lower category.
The redeployment offer concerns jobs under the authority that recruited you.
If you are in CDD: titleContent, the reclassification job is offered for the remaining period before the end of your contract.
Your employer administration invites you to a preliminary interview by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or hand delivery against signature.
This letter indicates the purpose of the summons.
The preliminary interview can not take place less than 5 working days after receipt of the letter of invitation.
During the interview, you can be accompanied by the person(s) of your choice.
During the interview, your administration will inform you of the period within which you must submit a written request for reclassification and the conditions under which the reclassification offers are presented to you.
Offers for reclassification must be written and precise. The jobs offered must be compatible with your professional skills.
If you refuse to take advantage of the reclassification procedure or if you do not submit your reclassification application within the prescribed period, you will be dismissed after a period of notice.
The length of the notice period depends on your seniority:
Seniority of services | Length of notice period |
|---|---|
Less than 6 months of service | 8 days |
Between 6 months and 2 years | 1 month |
At least 2 years | 2 months |
Your seniority is counted until the date of dispatch of the letter of dismissal.
It is calculated taking into account all your contracts, including in case of interruption of functions between 2 contracts less than 4 months if the interruption is not due to a resignation.
The notice period begins on the day of submission of the registered letter of dismissal with acknowledgement of receipt.
If you have made a request for reclassification and no job offer can be made to you before the end of the notice period, you are placed on unpaid leave for a maximum of 3 months at the end of the notice period. A certificate of suspension of your employment contract due to the administration is issued.
During the 3-month period, you can, at any time, reconsider your request for reclassification. You are then dismissed.
In case of refusal of the job proposed by the administration or in case of impossibility of reclassification during the unpaid leave of 3 months, you are dismissed.
You are entitled to unemployment benefits.
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Mobility of State officials in the event of reorganization of a State service or one of its establishments
Transfers within the EPF
Loss and termination of employment
Compensation schemes within the EPF
Implementation of a reorganization operation
Accompanying measures
A probationary official shall have no right to be reclassified in the event of termination of his or her employment