Employment & Labor

#95-979Decree on the Recruitment of Disabled Workers in the Public Service

🇫🇷France··Other·Medium Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This decree facilitates the recruitment of disabled individuals into public sector jobs in France. Individuals recognized as disabled are eligible for contractual positions if their situation is compatible with the job requirements. It provides a pathway for these workers to be assessed and potentially integrated into the public workforce by bypassing standard diploma requirements when equivalent skills or experience are present.

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Key Changes

  • Facilitates recruitment of disabled individuals in public service.
  • Allows assessment of skills and experience in lieu of formal diplomas.
  • Provides potential for contract renewal based on performance evaluations.

Obligations

What this law requires

medium

For Categories C and D positions, assess candidates' knowledge and competency level by file review conducted by the nominating authority after consulting the departmental commission when diplomas are lacking

Public sector recruiting authorities
operational
high

Verify that disabled job candidates have been officially recognized as disabled workers by the technical commission for occupational guidance and professional retraining (COTOREP) and that their disability has been deemed compatible with the position before recruitment

Public sector recruitment authorities
operational
high

For Categories A and B positions, establish a departmental commission to assess whether candidates without required diplomas possess equivalent level through continuous training or professional experience validated per Articles 5 and 17 of the January 26, 1984 law

Public sector recruiting administrations
operational
high

Compose the departmental assessment commission with: the department prefect (president), the academic rector, the head of the relevant administrative service, and a competent professional training specialist nominated by the prefect

Department prefects
operational
medium

Recruit disabled workers on fixed-term contracts of one year duration with compensation set at the probationary level or first level of the first grade of the corps where they may be tenured

Public sector recruiting administrations
operational

Affected Parties

Disabled individuals seeking public sector employmentPublic sector employers

Tags

disability,public sector,employment