Conventional rupture in the public service: here is how much a civil servant touches his departure

Since 2020, public service agents have a more flexible exit door: conventional rupture. An amicable agreement which opens them the right to unemployment … but also to a good starting allowance.

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The conventional rupture in the public service has just breathed its fifth candle. Since January 1, 2020, the Public service transformation law Allows agents from the three sides of the public service – State, hospital and territorial – to use it. This system, still in the experimental phase until December 31, 2025, is open to full officials as well as contractual agents on permanent contracts. It offers them the possibility of Break their amicable employment contract With the agreement of their employer, while benefiting from unemployment benefits and a starting allowance.

However, if the device is attractive on paper, it still struggles to find its audience. According to the annual report on the state of the public service, Posted in mid-November 2024 by the Ministry of the Public Service, only 1,984 conventional ruptures were signed in 2023. Almost five times more than in 2020, the launch year of the system, where 425 amicable departures had been recorded, but less than in 2022.

More frequent conventional ruptures in National Education

Main beneficiary, the Ministry of National Education. In 2022, three in four conventional ruptures (72%) thus concerned public education players. Another notable trend: beneficiaries are more and more young. In 2020, they were on average 50.4 years, compared to 47.4 years in 2023. On the other hand, the majority profile of these beneficiaries remains unchanged. These are the women which continue to predominate: they thus represented nearly 7 conventional ruptures out of 10 (69 %) in the public sector in 2023.

Does the relative success of the contractual termination in the public service are explained by the departure conditions offered? To find an answer to this question, you must immerse yourself in a letter from the Court of Auditors addressed to the Ministry of Public Service in December 2023. “Over the period 2020-2022, 5,300 state civil service agents obtained a contractual termination and received a specific average compensation for 20,300 euros»»can be read there. Total slate for the State: 107.6 million euros.

Data from the Ministry are struggling to convince the Court of Auditors

Note, however, that all These figures exclusively concern the State Civil Servicethus dismissing the hospital (FPH) and territorial (FPT) slopes. For what ? “No information goes back from the FPH or the FPT, and in the FPE, all the ministries do not communicate their data”deplores the Unsa Public Service. An opacity also very criticized by the Court of Auditors. In her December 2023 letter, she points to a finger “Imperfect traceability” decisions and calculation of compensation. In question: often incomplete files and the absence of checks by budget controllers. The sages of rue Cambon evoke, for example, cases of conventional ruptures granted with significant starting allowances, “Badly founded” and “Of the order of 190,000 euros”.