2023-05-04 15:54:00
The salary increase for civil servants should be the subject of discussions between the government and the union before the summer. This is in any case the wish displayed by the Minister of Transformation and the Public Service.
“We must be able to sit around the table in the next few days. I won’t wait for the summer, I think it’s more a matter of days and weeks rather than months.” clarified Stanislas Guerini during an interview on France 2 this Thursday, May 4.
Still, the representatives of the civil servants decline for the moment any official exchange with the government or the administration, ulcerated by the postponement of the legal age of retirement to 64 years.
Several upgrades in play
A 3.5% increase in the salaries of civil servants was implemented in the summer of 2022. But faced with inflation of nearly 6%, it is today denounced as insufficient by the eight representative unions of civil servants. , who ruled at the end of April that a salary increase was “urgent and essential”. This 3.5% increase decided in 2022 represents “2,000 euros per year for a midwife and 800 euros per year for a nursing assistant, for example in the hospital”, supported Stanislas Guerini.
The Minister also recalled that the salaries of the 1.1 million lowest paid agents had been “realigned” with the minimum wage on May 1. In a press release published on Thursday, the CGT invited the government to “Stop all this tinkering. These measures on low wages are only palliatives”, attacked the union. The Montreuil plant has been calling for 10% increases in salaries and their indexation to inflation for several months.
“I was very clear with the trade unions, I told them that this alignment with the minimum wage is obviously not for the balance of all accounts”, replied Stanislas Guerini on France 2, thus opening the door to other measures of purchasing power.
Another subject is also on the table: that of salary increases. “from the early years” in the public service for “not to freeze the beginnings of a career too much”.
No inflation indexation
Invited Thursday on TV5 Monde, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire dismissed any prospect of indexing wages to inflation in the public sector, a measure likely to “feeding the inflationary spiral” according to him. “And then it’s not very fair, because those with the lowest pay levels are going to be increased as much as those with the highest pay levels,” he continued. “However, inflation first affects the most modest and the lowest wages”.
At the end of April, the Governor of the Banque de France, François Villeroy de Galhau, indicated in any case that he had not yet noticed a runaway price-wage spiral in France.
Public service: the government in operation seduction
A fair and communication: faced with the disaffection for the public service, the government launched this Thursday in Paris a vast recruitment campaign around the slogan “Choose public service”. His goal is to “enhance the public service professions and the transformations underway within the public service itself”, according to a statement released Wednesday by the ministry.
These two events are launched a few weeks following the publication of a report by the Court of Auditors which showed the worrying evolution of the number of civil servants. They have indeed decreased by 5,765 full-time equivalents in the ministries in 2022, where the government was counting in the initial budget on a few hundred job creations. “Between 2018 and 2022, the state budget experienced three years of decline in public employment resulting in the loss of 10,286 jobs”, the Court of Auditors was once more alarmed.
(With AFP)
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