Civil & Administrative

#2008-368Decree Establishing a Voluntary Departure Indemnity

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

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🇬🇧 English

This law sets up compensation for public servants in France who voluntarily leave their positions. It applies to permanent staff and non-permanent agents leaving for personal projects or to start a business. Conditions include not being close to retirement and potentially having to repay the indemnity if rejoining public employment soon after.

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Key Changes

  • Voluntary departure indemnity introduced for public servants.
  • Eligibility excludes those near retirement and imposes conditions on reapplication.
  • Payback requirement if returning to public service shortly after departure.

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Competent ministerial arrêté must specify the services, corps, grades, positions or equivalent affected by restructuring and eligible for voluntary departure indemnity, after consultation with competent joint technical committees

Relevant ministers
operational
high

Competent ministerial arrêté must specify the time period during which voluntary departure indemnity can be allocated to affected personnel

Relevant ministers
operational
high

Agents departing to create or take over a business must communicate the K bis (business registration certificate) to state services within six months of departure

Public servants departing to create or take over a business
reporting
high

Agents departing to create or take over a business must submit supporting documents at the end of the first fiscal year to verify the reality of the business activity

Public servants departing to create or take over a business
reporting
high

Agents within five years or less of pension eligibility age are prohibited from receiving voluntary departure indemnity

State administration processing indemnity applications
prohibition

Affected Parties

Public servantsNon-permanent public agents

Tags

employment,public services,compensation