Can a public official work during his annual leave?

You can exercise freely the following activities without having no gait to be done with your employer administration:

• Volunteer activities
• Artistic or creative activities
• Functions of enumerator
• Harvest contract
• Volunteer trustee duties.

You can carry out the following activities provided that you have requested and obtained the authorization of your employer administration:

• Expertise and consultation : this expertise or consultation is not limited to your area of professional competence or the nature of the tasks you currently perform in the administration. However, you are prohibited from consulting, conducting expert opinions or litigating in disputes involving a public person, before a French, foreign or international jurisdiction, unless this service is performed for the benefit of a public person not in the competitive sector.
• Education and training : the teaching or training may concern a subject or a field that does not necessarily have a link with your main activity
• Activity of a sporting or cultural nature, including coaching and animation in the fields of sport, culture or popular education. This includes the following activities: sports coach, dance teacher, tour guide, hiking guide, animator of aerated centers or holiday camps, etc.
• Agricultural activity on a holding, whether or not constituted as a business. If the business is incorporated as a business, you must not act as a manager, chief executive officer or member of the board of directors. There is an exception when it comes to managing your personal and family wealth.
• Activity as a collaborating partner within a company artisanal, commercial or liberal: the spouse of the head of a commercial, artisanal or liberal company is considered to be a collaborating spouse if he carries out a regular professional activity in the company without receiving remuneration and without having the status of partner.
• Home help to one ascending, a descendant, to your husband, partner of Civil partnerships: titleContent or cohabiting partner allowing you to collect, possibly in exchange for the aid that you bring, the corresponding allocations (Apa, FCH)
• Small-scale work carried out at private homes : this includes household and family tasks and small gardening work, including brush clearing on small areas
• Activity of general interest practiced with a public person or with a private non-profit person (association, foundation, association contributing to the public service). In the case of an activity with a public person, it cannot be a matter of filling a vacant job, including a job that is not full-time or incomplete, regardless of the working time.
• International Cooperation Public Interest Mission or bodies of general interest of an international character or a foreigner State
• Services to the person. This covers the following activities: childcare, assistance to the elderly, disabled persons or other persons who need personal assistance at home or mobility assistance, household or family tasks to persons at home.
• Sale of goods produced personally.

Your activity must be compatible with your functions and have no effect on the functioning of the public service.

Your employer administration may refuse your application for stacking or object to your continuing to do so for the following reasons:

• The interest of the service justifies it
• The information you provided during your request is inaccurate
• This accumulation of activities is incompatible with your duties given your ethical obligations.

The activity can be considered ancillary regardless of the number of hours worked or the remuneration obtained. The law does not set a maximum number of hours or a maximum remuneration.