Question 15921 — local authorities

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Mr. Julien Rancoule draws the attention of the Minister of Labor and Solidarity to the increased difficulties that local authorities are experiencing in managing long-term sick leave. Beyond their direct budgetary impacts such as the replacement cost and the logistical consequences of internal reorganizations, these prolonged absences weaken the continuity of the public service and create tensions within the technical teams. However, communities currently have very limited means of verification: medical counter-inspections remain the only recourse, regulated by Decree No. 87-602 of July 26, 1986, within five working days. Faced with certain situations raising legitimate questions, this lack of suitable tools leaves public employers helpless and generates a feeling of unfairness among agents. As For comparison, the private sector has recently benefited from a strengthened regulatory framework with the publication of Decree No. 2024-692 of July 5, 2024, which precisely regulates the procedures for counter-visiting sick leave, specifying the conditions, deadlines and communication obligations of the employee. These provisions respond to a documented reality: work stoppage fraud, health insurance having detected 42 million euros of fraud in 2024. Local authorities, faced with identical challenges, remain governed by an older framework which proves insufficient. An experiment has indeed been initiated with certain health insurance funds, but it remains very limited in scale and does not offer a general solution to public employers. For all these reasons, he would like to know if a modernization of Decree No. 87-602 is planned. to strengthen the control tools available to communities and asks him how he intends to generalize and sustain the experiments carried out with health insurance funds and how he intends to support communities to overcome this problem.

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1. 16 June 2026

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