[Conditions for going back to work on a part-time basis as a therapeutic objective]

AFTER MEDICAL ASSESSMENT: In the general system, therapeutic part-time work is a temporary disposition which allows a progressive readaptation to work. In principle, when an employee goes back to work, daily sickness benefits stop being paid by the Social Security Service. The decision to go back to work on a part-time basis is conditioned by a preliminary medical estimation which justifies the fact that it is impossible for the patient to go on with his professional occupation on a full-time basis or which shows the need for a progressive resumption. THE ATTENDING PHYSICIAN: During the part-time resumption, he has to continue to fill-out the sick leave certificates and add the comment "part-time work resumption". After an industrial accident or an occupational disease (work stoppage/occupational disease), on the extension medical certificate, the doctor should check the "work resumption" box, and add "therapeutic part-time job". The doctor should not produce a final medical certificate but only extension certificates. A part-time work resumption cannot be prescribed after the consolidation date, which stops the payment of the daily sickness benefits granted for a work disease. THE ROLE OF THE EMPLOYER: In principle, the employer has to subject the employee to a work resumption medical consultation by the company doctor. If a medical control authorization from the Social Security and the ability certificate for the part-time work resumption provided by the company doctor are produced, the employee has to be employed on a part-time basis by the employer, excepting when this is not compatible with the firm's activity. CIVIL SERVICE: Part-time work resumption is a therapeutic part-time job (50% only), and cannot follow after an ordinary sick leave. Its allocation depends on the medial committee decision after a long sick leave, or the reform commission decision after an industrial accident or an occupational disease.