The authorities is breaking a barrier to facilitate the mobility of civil servants to the non-public sector | EUROtoday

The measure was anticipated by many civil servants and can, in keeping with them, resolve an actual administrative headache. A decree, revealed on Saturday December 6, modifies (by simplifying them) the foundations regarding availability, this method permitting civil servants to make a transition to the non-public sector then return to the general public service with out lack of their standing. Objective said by the chief: to streamline and due to this fact facilitate mobility in the direction of the non-public sector, by eradicating a regulatory barrier established by a 2019 reform.

In line with the 2018 legislation “for the freedom to choose one’s professional future”the preliminary length of availability was then prolonged from three to 5 years. All renewable as soon as inside a most of ten years. In return, the reform launched a brand new rule with the duty for every civil servant on availability to reintegrate the civil service, for not less than eighteen months, earlier than having the ability to profit from a renewal of their availability.

This obligation, explains the Ministry of Public Service, was supposed to “invite people to rejoin the administration quickly enough to benefit from the skills acquired during their availability”. The rule, nonetheless, resulted in a number of “counterproductive effects”defined the Court of Auditors in a May 2025 report on public-private mobility. This is due to this fact additionally conceded by the federal government by eradicating, by means of its decree, this obligation of “return” of civil servants.

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