Administrative law
Public service law
Career, discipline, protection of employees and end of duties, across the three branches of the French civil service.
Public service law governs the position of public-sector staff – established civil servants, contract staff and trainees – across the three branches of the French civil service: State, local-government and hospital. Essentially a statutory field, it differs from private employment law in the unilateral, non-contractual nature of the relationship between the employee and their administration.
The resulting disputes follow specific procedures before the administrative courts and call for precise knowledge of the General Civil Service Code (Code général de la fonction publique), the special statutes and administrative case law. I assist public-sector staff — and, where appropriate, administrations — in resolving difficulties relating to career, discipline or the end of duties.
How I can help
Career and status
- Challenges to unfavourable decisions: refusal of advancement, promotion or establishment (titularisation).
- Appeals against professional appraisals and interview reports.
- Disputes over mobility, transfer, secondment and being placed at another body’s disposal.
- Statutory positions (unpaid leave, parental leave, long-term sick leave) and refusals of statutory protection.
Discipline
- Defence before disciplinary boards.
- Appeals against sanctions (warning, reprimand, temporary exclusion, demotion, compulsory retirement, dismissal).
- Precautionary suspension proceedings.
Workplace suffering and protection of employees
- Reports and claims relating to psychological and sexual harassment.
- Applications for statutory protection in cases of assault, threats or being personally implicated.
- Recognition of an accident or illness as work-related; challenges to medical-board decisions.
End of duties
- Challenges to dismissals (professional inadequacy, misconduct, end of traineeship).
- Challenges to the non-renewal of contract staff’s contracts.
- Mutually agreed terminations: advice, negotiation, litigation.
- Challenges to compulsory retirement.
Damages claims
- Compensation for loss caused by the administration.
- Liability claims for service-related fault.
- Compensation for recognised harassment.
To go further: public service law falls within administrative law. Contact the firm to set out your situation.