Sick leave of public service contractor

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

Are you a contract worker, sick or a victim of a non-occupational accident and unable to work? You can be placed on sick leave by your employer administration upon presentation of a work stoppage. We present you the rules applicable to sick leave, according to your public service (State - FPE, territorial - FPT, hospital - FPH).

EPF

When you are in activity, you may be placed on sick leave, on presentation of a medical certificate, when the illness or accident occurred out of working time makes it impossible for you to perform your duties.

You can be placed on sick leave whether you are in CDD: titleContent or in CDI: titleContent.

You are not in operation when you are in one of the following situations:

  • Unpaid sick leave
  • Parental Leave
  • Unpaid leave to travel overseas or abroad for the adoption of one or more children
  • Unpaid leave to raise a child under 12 years of age
  • Unpaid leave to care for a dependent child, your spouse or partner Civil partnerships: titleContent or to a ascending as a result of an accident or serious illness or a disability requiring the presence of a third party
  • Unpaid leave to follow your spouse or partner Civil partnerships: titleContent forced to move for professional reasons
  • Leave without pay for personal convenience
  • Unpaid leave to create or resume a company.

To be placed on sick leave, you must send your employer administration a notice of work stoppage within 48 hours who are under the supervision of a physician, dental surgeon or midwife.

This notice of work stoppage specifies the medical elements and the reasons justifying the work stoppage and its duration, which may not exceed 31 days for a 1re prescription, unless the doctor, dentist or midwife justifies the need for a longer duration in view of your situation and taking into account any recommendations of the High Authority of Health.

The notice of work stoppage can be dematerialized.

If the notice of work stoppage is not dematerialized, you must flaps 1 and 2 from the notice of work stoppage to your CPAM: titleContent within 48 hours which follow its establishment.

Who shall I contact

In case of renewal of your work stoppage, you must forward your extension to your employer administration (and possibly to your CPAM: titleContent) within the same period of 48 hours following the establishment of the work stoppage.

Like the original judgment, the notice of extension specifies the duration of the judgment, which may not exceed 62 days.

FYI  

If you have to send the first and second sections to your CPAM and if you do not meet the 48-hour deadline, your CPAM will send you a letter reminding you of this deadline.

It also informs you that you are exposed to a reduction of 50% the amount of your daily allowances in case of late re-shipment within 24 months of this 1er late shipment.

In the event of a new late dispatch of a work stoppage, the daily allowances due between the date of establishment of the new work stoppage and the date of its transmission shall be reduced by half.

The 48 hours shipping time may be exceeded in case of hospitalization.

And if you are unable to meet the 48-hour deadline, excluding hospitalization, you have 8 days following the establishment of the work stoppage to justify this impossibility.

You can take sick leave for a period of 12 consecutive months in the event ofcontinuous work stoppages or, in the course of 300-day period effective services in the event of discontinuous work stoppages.

The 300-day service period is mobile and is calculated from date to date. Every calendar days are taken into account.

Your sick leave is paid by your employer administration if you have at least 4 months of seniority.

You perceive 90% of your index treatment within the first 3 months, then half of your index treatment within the next 9 months.

If you perceive the residence allowance and the family treatment supplement (FTS), they shall continue to be paid to you in full for the duration of your leave.

Your premiums and allowances are paid to you in the same proportion as your index salary (at 90% in the first 3 months, then half in the next 9 months).

Each work stoppage is subject to a day of deficiency unpaid.

During your sick leave, you are entitled to Social Security daily sickness benefit (IJ) after a waiting period of 3 days at each work stoppage.

The amount of these daily allowances is deducted from the index salary amount which is owed to you.

In practice, your employer's administration pays you the full amount of index salary due to you and is reimbursed by the Social Security the amount of daily allowances when the amount of index salary due to you is at least equal to the amount of daily allowances.

If you have to stop working for health reasons without having at least 4 months of seniority, you are placed on unpaid sick leave for a maximum period of one year.

You only receive the daily sickness benefit from the Social Security, if you meet the conditions to benefit from it. The daily allowances are paid after a waiting period of 3 days at each work stoppage.

The required 4-month period of service to qualify for paid sick leave is calculated by taking into account all the services you have performed in the public service (state, territorial or hospital).

In case of interruption of functions, services are taken into account if the interruption has not exceeded 4 months.

During your sick leave, 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.

Sick leave is taken into account when calculating the length of service required to be able to request a part-time and benefit in particular from the following holidays:

Other leave shall not result in the loss of seniority acquired before its allocation.

Warning  

If you are placed on unpaid sick leave without having at least 4 months of senioritythe period of sick leave is not taken into account.

If you are unable to take your annual leave because of sick leave, part of your annual leave may be postponed, under certain conditions.

Periods of sick leave do not entitle you to benefits RTT.

Sick leave is taken into account to calculate the length of service required for the review of your pay 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.

Ability to resume previous duties

If you are fit to resume your duties at the end of your sick leave, you are re-employed about your previous job to the extent permitted by the service.

If you cannot be reassigned to your previous job, you are priority to be reused on a similar job with equivalent remuneration.

Temporary inability to resume previous duties

If you stay temporarily you are unable to return to your duties at the end of your sick leave and you are placed in unpaid sick leave for a maximum duration of one year.

This one-year unpaid leave may be extended by 6 months if it is the result of medical advice that you are likely to resume your duties at the end of this additional period.

During your unpaid leave, you are entitled to unemployment benefits.

At the end of that unpaid sick leave, if you are fit upon resuming your duties, you are re-employed on your previous job to the extent permitted by the service.

If you cannot be reassigned to your previous job, you have a priority to be re-employed on a similar job with equivalent pay.

If the duration of your unpaid leave is equal to or greater than 1 year, you may only be re-used if you request it by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt at least 1 month before your unpaid sick leave ends. In the absence of such a request within the time limit, you are considered as resigned.

At the end of your unpaid sick leave, if it is medically ascertained by a licensed physician that you are definitively unfit to occupy your job, you can request to be reclassified.

Your application for reclassification is reviewed if you have been recruited for a permanent job in CDI or, in CDD, if the end of your CDD is later than the date of your application for reclassification. 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 licensed for physical incapacity.

Definitive inability to resume previous duties

At the end of your sick leave, if it is medically determined by a certified doctor that you are permanently unfit to hold your job, you can apply 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 licensed for physical incapacity.

FPT

When you are in activity, you may be placed on sick leave, on presentation of a medical certificate, when the illness or accident occurred out of working time makes it impossible for you to perform your duties.

You can be placed on sick leave whether you are in CDD: titleContent or in CDI: titleContent.

You are not in operation when you are in one of the following situations:

  • Unpaid sick leave
  • Parental Leave
  • Unpaid leave to travel overseas or abroad for the adoption of one or more children
  • Unpaid leave to raise a child under 12 years of age
  • Unpaid leave to care for a dependent child, your spouse or partner Civil partnerships: titleContent or to a ascending as a result of an accident or serious illness or a disability requiring the presence of a third party
  • Unpaid leave to follow your spouse or partner Civil partnerships: titleContent forced to move for professional reasons
  • Leave without pay for personal convenience
  • Unpaid leave to create or resume a company.

To be placed on sick leave, you must send your employer administration a notice of work stoppage within 48 hours who are under the supervision of a physician, dental surgeon or midwife.

This notice of work stoppage specifies the medical elements and the reasons justifying the work stoppage and its duration, which may not exceed 31 days for a 1re prescription, unless the doctor, dentist or midwife justifies the need for a longer duration in view of your situation and taking into account any recommendations of the High Authority of Health.

The notice of work stoppage can be dematerialized.

If the notice of work stoppage is not dematerialized, you must flaps 1 and 2 from the notice of work stoppage to your CPAM: titleContent within 48 hours which follow its establishment.

Who shall I contact

In case of renewal of your work stoppage, you must forward your extension to your employer administration (and possibly to your CPAM: titleContent) within the same period of 48 hours following the establishment of the work stoppage.

Like the original judgment, the notice of extension specifies the duration of the judgment, which may not exceed 62 days.

FYI  

If you have to send the first and second sections to your CPAM and if you do not meet the 48-hour deadline, your CPAM will send you a letter reminding you of this deadline.

It also informs you that you are exposed to a reduction of 50% the amount of your daily allowances in case of late re-shipment within 24 months of this 1er late shipment.

In the event of a new late dispatch of a work stoppage, the daily allowances due between the date of establishment of the new work stoppage and the date of its transmission shall be reduced by half.

The 48 hours shipping time may be exceeded in case of hospitalization.

And if you are unable to meet the 48-hour deadline, excluding hospitalization, you have 8 days following the establishment of the work stoppage to justify this impossibility.

You can take sick leave for a period of 12 consecutive months in the event ofcontinuous work stoppages or, in the course of 300-day period effective services in the event of discontinuous work stoppages.

The 300-day service period is mobile and is calculated from date to date. Every calendar days are taken into account.

Your sick leave is paid by your employer administration if you have at least 4 months of seniority.

You perceive 90% then half of your index treatment for periods that vary according to your seniority:

Tableau - Remuneration period of the territorial contractor at full or half pay

Seniority

Remuneration period at 90% or to 50%

After 4 months of service

30 days to 90% and 30 days at ½ treatment

After 2 years of service

60 days to 90% and 60 days at ½ treatment

After 3 years of service

90 days to 90% and 90 days at ½ treatment

If you perceive the residence allowance and the family treatment supplement (FTS), they will continue to be paid in full as long as you receive your index salary.

Your premiums and allowances are paid to you or not according to the rules defined by the deliberation establishing the compensation scheme in your community.

Each work stoppage is subject to a day of deficiency unpaid.

During your sick leave, you are entitled to Social Security daily sickness benefit (IJ) after a waiting period of 3 days at each work stoppage.

The amount of these daily allowances is deducted from the amount of the index salary paid to you.

In practice, your employer community pays you:

  • Either, in addition to the daily allowances, the share of index treatment that is due to you up to 90% or 50%
  • Either the amount of your index treatment up to 90% or 50% and is reimbursed by the Social Security for the amount of daily allowances.

If you receive the daily allowances of your CPAM: titleContent, you must communicate the amount to your community so that it pays you your index treatment, in addition, up to 90% or 50%.

Your community can suspend payment from your processing to the transmission of this information.

When pay periods to 90% or 50% are exhausted, you receive only daily allowances for sickness of the Social Security if you meet the conditions to benefit from it.

If you have to stop working for health reasons without having at least 4 months of seniority, you are placed on unpaid sick leave for a maximum period of one year.

You only receive the daily sickness benefit from the Social Security, if you meet the conditions to benefit from it. The daily allowances are paid after a waiting period of 3 days at each work stoppage.

The length of service required to be entitled to paid sick leave by your employer administration is calculated by taking into account all the services you have performed with the administration that recruited you.

In case of interruption of functions, services are taken into account if the interruption has not exceeded 4 months.

During your sick leave, 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.

Sick leave is taken into account when calculating the length of service required to be able to request a part-time and benefit in particular from the following holidays:

Other leave shall not result in the loss of seniority acquired before its allocation.

Warning  

If you are placed on unpaid sick leave without having at least 4 months of senioritythe period of sick leave is not taken into account.

If you are unable to take your annual leave because of sick leave, part of your annual leave may be postponed, under certain conditions.

Periods of sick leave do not entitle you to benefits RTT.

Sick leave is taken into account to calculate the length of service required for the review of your pay 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.

Ability to resume previous duties

If you are fit to resume your duties at the end of your sick leave, you are re-employed about your previous job to the extent permitted by the service.

If you cannot be reassigned to your previous job, you are priority to be reused on a similar job with equivalent remuneration.

Temporary inability to resume previous duties

If you stay temporarily you are unable to return to your duties at the end of your sick leave and you are placed in unpaid sick leave for a maximum duration of one year.

This one-year unpaid leave may be extended by 6 months if it is the result of medical advice that you are likely to resume your duties at the end of this additional period.

During your unpaid leave, you are entitled to unemployment benefits.

At the end of that unpaid sick leave, if you are fit upon resuming your duties, you are re-employed on your previous job to the extent permitted by the service.

If you cannot be reassigned to your previous job, you have a priority to be re-employed on a similar job with equivalent pay.

If the duration of your unpaid leave is equal to or greater than 1 year, you may only be re-used if you request it by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt at least 1 month before your unpaid sick leave ends. In the absence of such a request within the time limit, you are considered as resigned.

At the end of your unpaid sick leave, if it is medically ascertained by a licensed physician that you are definitively unfit to occupy your job, you can request to be reclassified.

Your application for reclassification is reviewed if you have been recruited for a permanent job in CDI or, in CDD, if the end of your CDD is later than the date of your application for reclassification. 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 licensed for physical incapacity.

Definitive inability to resume previous duties

At the end of your sick leave, if it is medically determined by a certified doctor that you are permanently unfit to hold your job, you can apply 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 licensed for physical incapacity.

FPH

When you are in activity, you may be placed on sick leave, on presentation of a medical certificate, when the illness or accident occurred out of working time makes it impossible for you to perform your duties.

You can be placed on sick leave whether you are in CDD: titleContent or in CDI: titleContent.

You are not in operation when you are in one of the following situations:

  • Unpaid sick leave
  • Parental Leave
  • Unpaid leave to travel overseas or abroad for the adoption of one or more children
  • Unpaid leave to raise a child under 12 years of age
  • Unpaid leave to care for a dependent child, your spouse or partner Civil partnerships: titleContent or to a ascending as a result of an accident or serious illness or a disability requiring the presence of a third party
  • Unpaid leave to follow your spouse or partner Civil partnerships: titleContent forced to move for professional reasons
  • Leave without pay for personal convenience
  • Unpaid leave to create or resume a company.

To be placed on sick leave, you must send your employer administration a notice of work stoppage within 48 hours who are under the supervision of a physician, dental surgeon or midwife.

This notice of work stoppage specifies the medical elements and the reasons justifying the work stoppage and its duration, which may not exceed 31 days for a 1re prescription, unless the doctor, dentist or midwife justifies the need for a longer duration in view of your situation and taking into account any recommendations of the High Authority of Health.

The notice of work stoppage can be dematerialized.

If the notice of work stoppage is not dematerialized, you must flaps 1 and 2 from the notice of work stoppage to your CPAM: titleContent within 48 hours which follow its establishment.

Who shall I contact

In case of renewal of your work stoppage, you must forward your extension to your employer administration (and possibly to your CPAM: titleContent) within the same period of 48 hours following the establishment of the work stoppage.

Like the original judgment, the notice of extension specifies the duration of the judgment, which may not exceed 62 days.

FYI  

If you have to send the first and second sections to your CPAM and if you do not meet the 48-hour deadline, your CPAM will send you a letter reminding you of this deadline.

It also informs you that you are exposed to a reduction of 50% the amount of your daily allowances in case of late re-shipment within 24 months of this 1er late shipment.

In the event of a new late dispatch of a work stoppage, the daily allowances due between the date of establishment of the new work stoppage and the date of its transmission shall be reduced by half.

The 48 hours shipping time may be exceeded in case of hospitalization.

And if you are unable to meet the 48-hour deadline, excluding hospitalization, you have 8 days following the establishment of the work stoppage to justify this impossibility.

You can take sick leave for a period of 12 consecutive months in the event ofcontinuous work stoppages or, in the course of 300-day period effective services in the event of discontinuous work stoppages.

The 300-day service period is mobile and is calculated from date to date. Every calendar days are taken into account.

Your sick leave is paid by your employer administration if you have at least 4 months of seniority.

You perceive 90% then half of your index treatment for periods that vary according to your seniority:

Tableau - Remuneration period of the full or half-time hospital contractor

Seniority

Duration of full or half pay

After 4 months of service

30 days to 90% and 30 days at ½ treatment

After 2 years of service

60 days to 90% and 60 days at ½ treatment

After 3 years of service

90 days to 90% and 90 days at ½ treatment

For the purpose of calculating months of service, any paid day shall be counted as one day regardless of the length of time worked on that day.

If you perceive the residence allowance and the family treatment supplement (FTS), they will continue to be paid in full as long as you receive your index salary.

Each work stoppage is subject to a day of deficiency unpaid.

You are also entitled to Social Security daily sickness benefit (IJ) after a waiting period of 3 days at each work stoppage.

During the periods during which your employer institution pays you 90% or 50% from your index salary, the amount of these daily allowances is deducted from the amount of the index salary paid to you.

In practice, your employer institution pays you:

  • Either, in addition to the daily allowances, the share of index treatment that is due to you up to 90% or 50%
  • Either the amount of your index treatment up to 90% or 50% and is reimbursed by the Social Security for the amount of daily allowances.

If you receive the daily allowances of your CPAM: titleContent, you must communicate the amount to your institution so that it pays you your index treatment, in addition, up to 90% or 50%.

Your institution can suspend payment from your processing to the transmission of this information.

When pay periods to 90% or 50% are exhausted, you receive only daily allowances for sickness of the Social Security if you meet the conditions to benefit from it.

If you have to stop working for health reasons without having at least 4 months of seniority, you are placed on unpaid sick leave for a maximum period of one year.

You only receive the daily sickness benefit from the Social Security, if you meet the conditions to benefit from it. The daily allowances are paid after a waiting period of 3 days at each work stoppage.

The length of service required to qualify for paid sick leave by your employer institution is calculated from the date of your 1er recruitment in your employer institution.

In case of interruption of functions, services are taken into account if the interruption did not exceed 4 months if it was voluntary or 1 year if the interruption was involuntary.

During your sick leave, 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.

Sick leave is taken into account when calculating the length of service required to be able to request a part-time and benefit in particular from the following holidays:

Other leave shall not result in the loss of seniority acquired before its allocation.

Warning  

If you are placed on unpaid sick leave without having at least 4 months of senioritythe period of sick leave is not taken into account.

If you are unable to take your annual leave because of sick leave, part of your annual leave may be postponed, under certain conditions.

Periods of sick leave do not entitle you to benefits RTT.

Sick leave is taken into account to calculate the length of service required for the review of your pay 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.

Ability to resume previous duties

If you are fit to resume your duties at the end of your sick leave, you are re-employed about your previous job to the extent permitted by the service.

If you cannot be reassigned to your previous job, you are laid off and have a priority of re-use in your institution to perform similar duties with equivalent remuneration.

Temporary inability to resume previous duties

If you stay temporarily you are unable to return to your duties at the end of your sick leave and you are placed in unpaid sick leave for a maximum duration of one year.

This one-year unpaid leave may be extended by 6 months if it is the result of medical advice that you are likely to resume your duties at the end of this additional period.

During your unpaid leave, you are entitled to unemployment benefits.

At the end of that unpaid sick leave, if you are fit upon resuming your duties, you are re-employed on your previous job to the extent permitted by the service.

If you cannot be reassigned to your previous job, you are dismissed and have priority for re-employment at your institution to perform similar duties with equivalent remuneration

At the end of your unpaid sick leave, if it is medically ascertained by a licensed physician that you are definitively unfit to occupy your job, you can request to be reclassified.

Your application 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 application for reclassification. 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 licensed for physical incapacity.

Definitive inability to resume previous duties

At the end of your sick leave, if it is medically determined by a certified doctor that you are permanently unfit to hold your job, you can apply 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 licensed for physical incapacity.