| Abaisement d'échelon | Reduction in incremental position |
| Abaisement de classe | Reduction in class |
| Abaisement de grade | Demotion, Reduction in grade |
| Abandon | Desertion |
| Abandon de poste | Desertion of post |
| Absence irrégulière | Absence without leave |
| Accès | Admission |
| Accès aux emplois publics | Admission to public posts |
| Accessoires de pension | Subsidiary pension allowances |
| Acte | Instrument, enactment |
| Acte de détachement | Secondment instrument |
| Acte de nomination | Appointment instrument |
| Acte électronique | Electronic instrument |
| Acte signé | Signed instrument |
| Action récursoire | Claim |
| Activité | Active employment |
| Activité lucrative | Gainful activity |
| Administration | Administration/ Government service/ Ministry |
| Administration d'origine | Ministry of origin |
| Administration pénitentiaire | Prisons administration |
| Admis | Passed (examination) |
| Admis à faire valoir ses droits à la retraite | Placed on retirement |
| Admis à la retraite | Admitted to retirement /Retired |
| Admissibilité | Success in the written part of an examination |
| Age de majorité | Age of majority |
| Age limite | Age limit |
| Agent auxiliaire | Auxiliary staff |
| Agent de l'Etat | State employee |
| Agent décisionnaire | Employee recruited on the basis of a decision |
| Agent public | Public employee |
| Agent temporaire | Temporary worker |
| Agent titulaire | Established State employee |
| Allocation de stage | Training allowance |
| Allocation de survivant | Survivor's allowance |
| Allocation de vieillesse | Old-age allowance |
| Allocation spéciale | Special allowance |
| Allocations familiales | Family allowances |
| Ampliation | Copy |
| Ancienneté | Seniority |
| Ancienneté conservée | Seniority maintained |
| Ancienneté diminuée | Seniority reduced |
| Ancienneté supprimée | Seniority cancelled |
