#2026-428Birth Leave Bonus Rules for Public Hospital Staff
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This decree adjusts how certain bonuses and allowances are paid when public hospital medical staff take additional birth leave. For the affected practitioners, most listed bonuses are not paid in full during this leave: they receive 70% in the first month and 60% in the second month. The change matters for public hospitals, contract practitioners, hospital assistants, and payroll teams. Employers will need to apply the new reduced-payment rules to eligible birth leave while keeping the normal rules for other covered types of leave.
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Key Changes
- Sets reduced bonus and allowance payments during additional birth leave for affected public hospital practitioners
- Provides 70% of covered bonuses in the first month of additional birth leave and 60% in the second month
- Clarifies that full bonus maintenance continues for other covered leave types, subject to listed exceptions
Obligations
What this law requires
Public hospital employers must pay the listed bonuses and allowances under Article D. 6152-23-1, 4° to eligible practitioners on additional birth leave at 70% for the first month and 60% for the second month, excluding the bonus referred to in point d, which is not covered by this reduced-payment rule.
Public hospital employers must pay the bonus under Article D. 6152-23-1, 6° to eligible practitioners on additional birth leave at 70% for the first month and 60% for the second month.
Public hospital employers must continue to pay the relevant bonuses and allowances in full to practitioners taking other leave covered by Article R. 6152-819, while applying the reduced 70% then 60% payment only to additional birth leave.
Public hospital employers must pay the Article D. 6152-356, 5° a bonus to contractual practitioners on additional birth leave at 70% for the first month and 60% for the second month.
Public hospital employers must maintain the Article D. 6152-356, 5° a bonus in full for contractual practitioners taking other leave covered by Article R. 6152-819, except where the leave is additional birth leave, for which the reduced 70% then 60% rates apply.