A contractual practitioner is entitled to sick leave, on presentation of a medical certificate, for a maximum period of twelve consecutive months, during which the person concerned receives the full emoluments provided for in 1° of article R. 6152-355 for three months and then half for the following nine months.
When at the end of the first period of six consecutive months of sick leave, a practitioner is unfit to return to work, the medical committee is asked to give its opinion on any request to extend this leave within the limit of the remaining six months.
Where a practitioner has been granted sick leave for a total of twelve consecutive months, he may not, on expiry of his last period of leave, return to service without the favourable opinion of the medical committee.
Unpaid health-related leave for a maximum of twelve months may be granted to a practitioner at his request, after obtaining the opinion of the medical committee, if the person concerned is unable to return to work on health grounds on expiry of his entitlement to sick leave.
The granting of sick leave to a contractual practitioner may not have the effect of extending the duration of the current contract.