[Specific aspects of medico-social protection in French public services]

SPECIFIC ASPECTS OF MEDICO-SOCIAL PROTECTION IN FRENCH PUBLIC SERVICES. Civil servants in the three French civil services (State, hospital and local governments) benefit from specific medical and social protection, unique to their status. This protection is very different from that of private sector workers under the French general social security regime, with specific participants and instances (licensed doctors and "conseils médicaux") and specific sick leave depending on the pathology of the civil servant, in particular long-term sick leave ("congés de longue maladie"), long-term leave ("congés de longue durée") and leave for temporary disability attributable to the service. Therapeutic part-time leave also has specific conditions for granting and renewal. Finally, civil servants benefit from specific measures for returning to and remaining in employment, particularly in the context of professional reclassification.