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Public Service: New Information Obligations to Avoid Loss of Annual Leave Published on August 14, 2026 - Service Public / Direction of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
When a public servant has not been able to take all or part of their annual leave days due to interruptions in work related to parental responsibilities or for health reasons, they benefit from the automatic carry-over of these days. Since August 13, the right to information for public servants benefiting from this carry-over has been strengthened. Service Public provides more details.
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In general, the annual leave days granted to public servants must be taken between January 1 and December 31 of the same year.
In certain situations, public servants (civil servants and contract workers) benefit from the automatic carry-over of their remaining annual leave days for a period of 15 months. This is the case when they have not been able to take all or part of these leave days due to:
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a leave of absence for health reasons;
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a leave of absence related to their parental or family responsibilities (maternity leave, paternity and child reception leave, parental presence leave, caregiver leave, etc.);
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reasons related to the needs of their service (objective and particular reasons, related to the continuity of the public service).
Since August 13, 2026, an employer administration must provide, to a public servant who has not been able to take all or part of their annual leave days for one of these reasons, the following two pieces of information:
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the number of annual leave days carried over;
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the date until which these leave days can be taken.
These pieces of information must be provided to the public servant:
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within one month following the date of resumption of their duties, if the carry-over of annual leave days is caused by a leave of absence for health reasons or related to their parental or family responsibilities;
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before January 31 of the following year, if the carry-over of annual leave days is the result of reasons related to the needs of the service.
The procedure used by the employer administration to fulfill this information obligation must allow the date when the public servant was able to take these pieces of information into account to be recorded.
The 15-month carry-over period to take the remaining annual leave days generally starts on the day the public servant receives these two pieces of information that the employer must provide.
A specific mechanism is provided for public servants whose leave of absence for health reasons or related to parental or family responsibilities reaches a duration of at least one year at the end of the year for which the annual leave days are due (for example, for the annual leave days due for the year 2026, it concerns public servants whose leave of absence for health reasons or related to parental or family responsibilities will reach a duration of one year or more by December 31, 2026).
For these public servants, the 15-month carry-over period to take the remaining annual leave days starts at the end of the year for which these leave days are due (for example, this 15-month carry-over period will start for the concerned public servants on December 31, 2026, concerning the annual leave days due for the year 2026).
Then, when these public servants resume their duties, if the 15-month carry-over period has not already expired, it is suspended until they have received the two mandatory pieces of information (the number of annual leave days carried over, and the date until which these leave days can be taken).
On August 13, another information obligation came into force; it concerns public servants who benefit from a compensatory indemnity at the end of their employment relationship because they were unable to take all their annual leave days before leaving. They must now be informed by their employer administration of the number of unused or carried-over annual leave days that give rise to compensation.
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See also
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Annual leave in the public service Service Public
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Public Service: New Rules for Work Interruptions and Therapeutic Part-Time Work Service Public
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What are the new modalities of the voluntary termination agreement in the public service? Service Public
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