Civil service lawyer

Civil service law is a specific legal regime . It considers the recruitment and careers of civil servants and contract agents in the civil service. It concerns career incidents in the State civil service, the territorial civil service and the hospital civil service . It is only applicable to civil service agents .

Lawyers specializing in civil service law work with civil service employees in their relations with their employers and support local authorities in managing the careers of their employees.

Disciplinary litigation in the public service

Public employers

• Identification of the nature of the dysfunctions (problems of professional inadequacy or disciplinary issues);
• Assistance in preparing disciplinary files (drafting suspension orders, drafting and preparing the report on referral to the disciplinary council );
• Assistance before disciplinary boards;
• Monitoring of contentious procedures before the administrative court.

Public agents

A civil service lawyer intervenes on behalf of public officials in the context of:

• Request for communication of personal files and drafting of observations in defense;
• Assistance and representation before disciplinary boards;
• Monitoring of administrative litigation procedures before the administrative court.

Contractual agents of the public service

• Review of recruitment conditions;
• Monitoring of contract renewal or non-renewal;
• Advice on contract developments;
• Advice on obtaining tenure and entering into a permanent contract;
• Advice on the resumption of private law agent contracts following the resumption of private activities;
• Monitoring of contentious procedures before the administrative court and the administrative court of appeal .

Careers of public officials

• A review of the rights of public service agents ;
  
• Monitoring of procedures before medical committees, joint administrative committees, etc.;
• A request for compensation for civil servants and contract agents who are victims of moral harassment ;
• Assistance and advice for the granting of functional protection;
• A challenge to eviction decisions (dismissal, removal from the staff, revocation, unfitness for service);
• Assistance and advice for advancement in ranks and grades;
• A challenge to an ex officio transfer and change of assignment;
• Assistance with the recognition of the service-related nature of accidents and illnesses (occupational illness, work-related accidents, leave for temporary disability attributable to service);
• Monitoring of reclassification, reintegration or exit from service procedures;
• The drafting of various decrees affecting the careers of public officials.