Vocational Transition Leave in the State Public Service (FPE)
Verified 01 August 2026 - Public Service / (Prime Minister)
If you are a CDI civil servant or contractor and are in a job that the administration is considering abolishing, you may be granted work transition leave. You can also benefit under certain conditions if you are in one of these cases: you are a category C officer and do not have a bachelor's degree or you are disabled or you are particularly exposed to a risk of professional wear and tear. We explain the rules to know.
The purpose of career transition leave is for you train to practice a new profession :
- In the public service
- Or in the private sector.
Service Restructuring
You can benefit from career transition leave if you complete the 2 following conditions :
- You are a civil servant or contract worker in CDI
- And you're in a job that the administration is considering cutting as part of a service restructuring.
Reminder
When a restructuring of a service or establishment of the State is implemented, a ministerial decree defines its scope and duration. The restructuring defined by decree may also concern a body of civil servants. The duration of the implementation of the restructuring may not exceed 3 years.
If you are involved in a restructuring operation, you are informed by all means of the personalized support measures you can benefit from (example: review of your professional career).
Other
You can also benefit from career transition leave if you are a civil servant or a contract worker and you find yourself in one of the following situations:
- You belong to a body Category C or hold a Category C job and you do not have a bachelor's degree
- Or you are in a situation of disability beneficiary the obligation of employment
- Or it is found, after consulting the occupational physician, that you are particularly exposed, given your individual professional situation, to a risk of professional wear and tear.
The benefit of this professional transition leave implies that you and your administration have noted the need forpractice a new profession within the public or private sector.
You can take a training course or a training course.
Training can be:
- Certifying of a duration of 120 hours or more
- Or 70 hours or more to be accompanied in the creation or resumption of a company.
Your administration covers the cost of training, possibly up to a ceiling.
In addition, it can cover the costs of your travel.
The rules vary according to the nature of the chargeable event leading to the introduction of the leave (restructuring of service or other cases):
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Service Restructuring
The request for work transition leave must be made at least 60 days before the date on which the training begins.
Your application must include the following:
- Nature of training
- Duration of training
- Name of training organization
- Professional objective pursued.
Your administration will inform you of its response, in writing, within 30 days of receiving your leave request.
In case of refusal, the decision of your employment administration must be reasoned.
Your leave request may be deferred in the interest of the service.
Other
You are a civil servant or a contractor and you are in one of the following situations :
- You belong to a body Category C or hold a Category C job and you do not have a bachelor's degree
- Or you are in a situation of disability beneficiary the obligation of employment
- Or it is found, after consulting the occupational physician, that you are particularly exposed, given your individual professional situation, to a risk of professional wear and tear.
The request for career transition leave must then be made at least 3 months before the date on which the training begins.
Your application must include the following:
- Nature of training
- Duration of training
- Name of training organization
- Professional objective pursued.
Your administration informs you of its response, in writing, within 2 months following receipt of your leave request.
In case of refusal, the decision of your employment administration must be reasoned.
Your leave request may be deferred in the interest of the service.
The rules vary according to the nature of the chargeable event leading to the introduction of the leave (restructuring of service or other cases):
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Service Restructuring
The career transition leave may be divided into:
- In months
- In weeks
- Or in days.
The leave must be completed before the end of the restructuring period set out in the Ministerial Order.
However, your leave may exceed this period if you started your training less than 12 months (one year) before the end of the restructuring period due to a postponement of your training due to service requirements.
If your professional project requires one or more training courses with a total duration of more than 12 months (one year), you can request that your professional transition leave be extended by a vocational training leave. In this case, the cumulative duration of your career transition and vocational training leave must not exceed Three years.
Other
You are a civil servant or a contract worker and you are in one of the following situations:
- You belong to a body Category C or hold a Category C job and you do not have a bachelor's degree
- Or you are in a situation of disability beneficiary the obligation of employment
- Or it is found, after consulting the occupational physician, that you are particularly exposed, given your individual professional situation, to a risk of professional wear and tear.
The career transition leave may be divided into:
- In months
- In weeks
- Or in days.
If your professional project requires one or more training courses with a total duration of more than 12 months (one year), you can request that your professional transition leave be extended by a vocational training leave. In this case, the cumulative duration of your career transition and vocational training leave must not exceed Three years.
To prove your attendance, you must submit, according to a schedule agreed between you and your administration, the certificates established by the training organization.
If you stop taking your training, without any legitimate reason, you lose the benefit of your leave.
During your leave, you will continue to receive:
- Your gross index treatment
- Your residence allowance and your family treatment supplement, if you benefit from these 2 elements of remuneration
- 80% the benefit plan you receive on the date of your transition leave.
Please note
For the calculation of 80% of your compensation plan, the following compensation elements are not taken into account :
- Reimbursement of expenses
- Allowances related to the organization of work and actual exceeding of the work cycle (overtime, standby duty allowances, etc.)
- Exceptional or occasional payments related to the assessment of how to serve
- Exceptional or occasional payments motivated by a single operative event (for example, exceptional bonus paid to staff particularly mobilized to deal with the Covid-19 epidemic)
- Overseas increases and indexing (unless you are continuing your training overseas)
- Allowances related to ancillary activity.
You stay in activity position during your leave.
The period of work transition leave is considered as actual services in your body.
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