Leave for accident at work or occupational disease of the contract public servant

Verified 01 September 2026 - Public Service / (Prime Minister)

As a contractor in the public service, you can be placed on leave, in case of accident at work or occupational disease, during the period of incapacity for work. We present the rules applicable to this leave according to your public service of belonging (State - FPE, territorial - FPT, hospital - FPH).

EPF

When you are active, you benefit, in case ofaccident at work or occupational disease, leave for the entire period of incapacity for work until your complete recovery or consolidation from your wound.

You can be placed on leave for accident at work or occupational disease whether you are in CDD: titleContent or in CDI: titleContent.

If you are in CDD, your leave cannot go beyond the duration of your contract.

As a contractor, you are covered by the Social Security Health Insurance and are subject to the same procedures as a private sector employee to have your accident or your illness as an accident at work or occupational disease.

During your leave, you are entitled to daily allowances (IJ) for accident or work or occupational disease of Social Security.

Your employer administration complete the amount of the daily allowance up to your full salary during a duration varies according to your seniority :

  • For 1 month in case of leave upon taking up your duties
  • For 2 months in case of leave after 2 years of service
  • For 3 months in case of leave after 3 years of service.

At the end of this period, you do not receive more than the daily allowances of the Social Security.

The length of service is calculated by taking into account all the services you have performed with the administration that recruited you.

In case of interruption of functions between 2 contracts, services are taken into account if the interruption did not exceed 4 months.

Daily allowances are payable to you by your employer's administration if you are employed full-time or on a contract of more than one year.

The daily allowances are due to you by your CPAM: titleContent if you are employed on an incomplete basis or on a contract of less than one year. However, it is your employer's administration that pays you the daily allowances. She gets a refund from your CPAM.

If you perceive the residence allowance and the family treatment supplement (FTS), these top-ups are paid to you for the same period as your share of index salary.

Your bonuses and allowances you are paid in full for the same period as the share of your index treatment.

Leave for accident at work or occupational disease shall have no effect on leave entitlements, in particular:

If you are unable to take your annual leave due to accident at work or occupational disease leave, part of your annual leave may be postponed under certain conditions.

Periods during which you are on leave for accident at work or occupational disease do not entitle you to RTT.

The length of leave due to accident at work or occupational disease is taken into account to calculate the length of service required for the review of your remuneration and to determine your training entitlements.

It is also taken into account to calculate the length of service required to enter internal competitions and when you are ranked in case of success in a competition for access to a a public service employment body or executive.

You can apply for or continue training or a skills assessment to promote your rehabilitation or professional retraining. Your request is subject to the favorable opinion of the medical advice. Your employer administration will decide on your request within 30 days.

During your leave for accident at work or occupational disease, your employer administration may submit you at any time to a inspection visit by a licensed physician.

In case of refusal on your part to submit to this examination, your remuneration is no longer paid.

If you or your employer's administration dispute the opinion of the registered physician, you may contact the medical advice.

During your work stoppage, you must comply with the following obligations:

  • Follow the doctor's prescriptions
  • Submit to the medical check-ups requested by the Social Security
  • Do not engage in unauthorized activity
  • Inform your CPAM: titleContent any resumption of activity before the end of the work stoppage
  • Inform your employer administration and your CPAM without delay of any change of domicile.

Your administration may also arrange for the administrative control of your work stoppage by any person authorized to do so.

This check concerns your presence at your home, or at your place of rest if different, when outings are not allowed or during the hours of mandatory presence indicated by your doctor on the work stoppage.

In case of unjustified absence or refusal to submit to this administrative control, the payment of your remuneration is interrupted until the end date of your work stoppage.

Periods during which pay is interrupted count towards the current leave period.

Fitness for resumption of duties

If you are fit to return to your duties after your leave for accident at work or occupational disease, you are re-employed on your previous job to the extent permitted by the service.

If this is not possible, you have a priority to be re-employed on a similar job with equivalent pay.

Definitive inability to resume duties

At the end of your leave for accident at work or occupational disease, if it is medically recognized by a licensed physician that you are permanently unfit to hold your job, you can ask to be reclassified.

Your request for reclassification is reviewed if you have been recruited for a permanent job in CDI or, in CDD, if your CDD is terminated after the date of your request for reclassification.

The reclassification job is then offered for the remaining period before the end of your CDD.

If your reclassification is not possible, you are dismissed for physical incapacity.

FPT

When you are active, you benefit, in case ofaccident at work or occupational disease, leave for the entire period of incapacity for work until your complete recovery or consolidation from your wound.

You can be placed on leave for accident at work or occupational disease whether you are in CDD: titleContent or in CDI: titleContent.

If you are in CDD, your leave cannot go beyond the duration of your contract.

As a contractor, you are covered by the Social Security Health Insurance and are subject to the same procedures as a private sector employee to have your accident or your illness as an accident at work or occupational disease.

During your leave, you are entitled to daily allowances (IJ) for accident or work or occupational disease of Social Security.

Your Employer Community complete the amount of the daily allowance up to your full salary during a duration varies according to your seniority :

  • For 1 month in case of leave upon taking up your duties
  • For 2 months in case of leave after 1 year of service
  • For 3 months in case of leave after 3 years of service.

At the end of this period, you only receive the daily allowance from the Social Security.

The length of service is calculated by taking into account all the services you have performed with the community that recruited you.

In case of interruption of functions between 2 contracts, services are taken into account if the interruption did not exceed 4 months.

The length of service is calculated from the date on which your contract was originally concluded, even if it was subsequently renewed.

The daily allowances are paid by your CPAM: titleContent.

You must communicate the amount to your employer community so that it pays you the share of your index salary up to your full salary.

Your administration may suspend payment of the share of your index processing until the transmission of this information.

FYI  

Your employer community can also be subrogated in your rights to the CPAM, that is, it collects JIs for you and pays you your full index salary.

If you perceive the residence allowance and the family treatment supplement (FTS), these top-ups are paid to you for the same period as your share of index salary.

Your bonuses and allowances you are paid according to the rules defined by the decision establishing the compensation scheme in your community.

Leave for accident at work or occupational disease shall have no effect on leave entitlements, in particular:

If you are unable to take your annual leave due to accident at work or occupational disease leave, part of your annual leave may be postponed under certain conditions.

Periods during which you are on leave for accident at work or occupational disease do not entitle you to RTT.

The length of leave due to accident at work or occupational disease is taken into account to calculate the length of service required for the review of your remuneration and to determine your training entitlements.

It is also taken into account to calculate the length of service required to enter internal competitions and when you are ranked in case of success in a competition for access to a a public service employment body or executive.

You can apply for or continue training or a skills assessment to promote your rehabilitation or professional retraining. Your request is subject to the favorable opinion of the medical advice. Your employer administration will decide on your request within 30 days.

During your leave for accident at work or occupational disease, your employer administration may submit you at any time to a inspection visit by a licensed physician.

In case of refusal on your part to submit to this examination, your remuneration is no longer paid.

If you or your employer's administration dispute the opinion of the registered physician, you may contact the medical advice.

During your work stoppage, you must comply with the following obligations:

  • Follow the doctor's prescriptions
  • Submit to the medical check-ups requested by the Social Security
  • Do not engage in unauthorized activity
  • Inform your CPAM: titleContent any resumption of activity before the end of the work stoppage
  • Inform your employer administration and your CPAM without delay of any change of domicile.

Your administration may also arrange for the administrative control of your work stoppage by any person authorized to do so.

This check concerns your presence at your home, or at your place of rest if different, when outings are not allowed or during the hours of mandatory presence indicated by your doctor on the work stoppage.

In case of unjustified absence or refusal to submit to this administrative control, the payment of your remuneration is interrupted until the end date of your work stoppage.

Periods during which pay is interrupted count towards the current leave period.

Fitness for resumption of duties

If you are fit to resume your duties at the end of your leave for accident at work or occupational disease, you are re-employed on your previous job to the extent that the service requirements allow it.

If this is not possible, you have a priority to be re-employed on a similar job with equivalent pay.

Definitive inability to resume duties

At the end of your leave for accident at work or occupational disease, if it is medically recognized by a licensed physician that you are permanently unfit to hold your job, you can ask to be reclassified.

Your request for reclassification is reviewed if you have been recruited for a permanent job in CDI or, in CDD, if your CDD is terminated after the date of your request for reclassification.

The reclassification job is then offered for the remaining period before the end of your CDD.

If your reclassification is not possible, you are dismissed for physical incapacity.

FPH

When you are active, you benefit, in case ofaccident at work or occupational disease, leave for the entire period of incapacity for work until your complete recovery or consolidation from your wound.

You can be placed on leave for accident at work or occupational disease whether you are in CDD: titleContent or in CDI: titleContent.

If you are in CDD, your leave cannot go beyond the duration of your contract.

As a contractor, you are covered by the Social Security Health Insurance and are subject to the same procedures as a private sector employee to have your accident or your illness as an accident at work or occupational disease.

During your leave, you are entitled to daily allowances (IJ) for accident or work or occupational disease of Social Security.

Your employer institution complete the amount of the daily allowance up to your full salary during a duration varies according to your seniority :

  • For 1 month in case of leave upon taking up your duties
  • For 2 months in case of leave after 1 year of service
  • For 3 months in case of leave after 3 years of service.

At the end of this period, you only receive the daily allowance from the Social Security.

The service life is calculated from the date of your 1er recruitment in your employer institution.

In case of interruption of functions between 2 contracts, services are taken into account if the interruption did not exceed 4 months if it was voluntary or one year if it was involuntary.

The daily allowances are paid by your CPAM: titleContent.

You must communicate the amount to your employer institution so that it pays you in addition the share of your index salary up to your full salary.

Your institution can suspend payment of the share of your index processing until the transmission of this information.

FYI  

Your employer institution may also be subrogated in your rights with the CPAM, that is to say that he collects the JIs in your place and pays you your index salary in full.

If you perceive the residence allowance and the family treatment supplement (FTS), these top-ups are paid to you for the same period as your share of index salary.

Leave for accident at work or occupational disease shall have no effect on leave entitlements, in particular:

If you are unable to take your annual leave due to accident at work or occupational disease leave, part of your annual leave may be postponed under certain conditions.

Periods during which you are on leave for accident at work or occupational disease do not entitle you to RTT.

The length of leave due to accident at work or occupational disease is taken into account to calculate the length of service required for the review of your remuneration and to determine your training entitlements.

It is also taken into account to calculate the length of service required to enter internal competitions and when you are ranked in case of success in a competition for access to a a public service employment body or executive.

You can apply for or continue training or a skills assessment to promote your rehabilitation or professional retraining. Your request is subject to the favorable opinion of the medical advice. Your employer administration will decide on your request within 30 days.

During your leave for accident at work or occupational disease, your employer administration may submit you at any time to a inspection visit by a licensed physician.

In case of refusal on your part to submit to this examination, your remuneration is no longer paid.

If you or your employer's administration dispute the opinion of the registered physician, you may contact the medical advice.

During your work stoppage, you must comply with the following obligations:

  • Follow the doctor's prescriptions
  • Submit to the medical check-ups requested by the Social Security
  • Do not engage in unauthorized activity
  • Inform your CPAM: titleContent any resumption of activity before the end of the work stoppage
  • Inform your employer administration and your CPAM without delay of any change of domicile.

Your administration may also arrange for the administrative control of your work stoppage by any person authorized to do so.

This check concerns your presence at your home, or at your place of rest if different, when outings are not allowed or during the hours of mandatory presence indicated by your doctor on the work stoppage.

In case of unjustified absence or refusal to submit to this administrative control, the payment of your remuneration is interrupted until the end date of your work stoppage.

Periods during which pay is interrupted count towards the current leave period.

Fitness for resumption of duties

If you are fit to return to your duties after your leave for accident at work or occupational disease, you are re-employed on your previous job to the extent permitted by the service.

If this is not possible, you are dismissed and have priority for re-employment in your establishment to perform similar duties with equivalent remuneration.

Definitive inability to resume duties

At the end of your leave for accident at work or occupational disease, if it is medically determined by a certified doctor that you are permanently unfit for your job, you may ask to be reclassified.

Your request for reclassification is reviewed if you have been recruited for a permanent job in CDI or, in CDD, if your CDD is terminated after the date of your request for reclassification.

The reclassification job is then offered for the remaining period before the end of your CDD.

If your reclassification is not possible, you are dismissed for physical incapacity.