It is a decree dated July 2 but published Saturday which concerns no less than 35,000 people in metropolitan France alone. Overseas civil servants who practice in France or in another overseas territory than that where they have their family ties, will now have fewer but more frequent bonus holidays.
A measure from 1978
Introduced in 1978, the enhanced leaves are specific days granted to magistrates, civil servants and public agents originating from an overseas department who work in metropolitan France or in another overseas department or to civil servants originating from metropolitan France who work overseas. They allow you to periodically stay at the place where the official has his family ties.
The measure implemented this weekend, but announced in June 2018 by Emmanuel Macron, aims "to modernize the system of enhanced leave in the three sides of the civil service to allow more frequent benefit in return for a reduction of their duration ”. While this leave has so far consisted of 65 days (35 days of annual leave and 30 days of bonus) that civil servants could take in a row to return to their home territory every three years, they will not be able to now "exceed 31 consecutive days", but may be taken every two years. Civil servants will also have their transport costs "covered" and no longer "reimbursed" after purchase.
Wallis and Futuna, New Caledonia and Polynesia in the new system
For the state civil service, the decree "opens new rights to subsidized leave for the benefit of public officials of the State on open-ended contracts and state agents having their center of moral and material interests in a community overseas of the Pacific ”, ie Wallis and Futuna, New Caledonia and Polynesia, which were previously excluded from this system.
This reform had crystallized the anger of overseas officials in 2019 and the overseas minister had assured that the government "would take the time to consult." "These are not undue advantages but it is a right that has been granted to overseas officials working in France to allow them to join their families and keep a link with the territory," she explained in May 2019 to the Assembly.
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