2023-06-12 17:18:52
Bis repeated. For the second consecutive year, some 5.7 million civil servants will benefit from a general increase. The Minister of Transformation and the Public Service, Stanislas Guerini, announced this Monday to the unions a 1.5% increase in the 1is July of the value of the point, which serves as the basis for calculating the salaries of State agents, local authorities and hospitals.
This is 2 points less than the 3.5% general increase granted on July 1, 2022, in the wake of the legislative elections. But will also be awarded, this time, 5 points to all agents, i.e. a lump sum of approximately 25 euros gross monthly additional, on the 1is January. These two measures represent an average annual index increase of 2.5%, calculated the Ministry of the Public Service.
One package for all agents
They will be supplemented by a measure of specific increase on the bottom of the salary scales of categories C and B that the last raising of the SMIC has completely crushed. The 2.19% increase in the SMIC on 1is last May led to a Category C agent hired at the lowest wage remaining his first 12 years at minimum wage as things stand.
Up to 9 additional index points will be granted to restore progressive pay at the start of the C and B career. According to the Ministry of the Civil Service, nearly 1.5 million civil servants will benefit from this boost (394,000 within the State, 803,000 in the territorial public service and 255,000 in hospitals).
From 300 to 800 euros in purchasing power bonus
A purchasing power bonus will be added to the device for all agents earning at most 3,250 euros, from 800 euros for the least well paid to 300 euros for those on the ceiling. This bonus subject to social security contributions will benefit all hospital staff as well as those of the State, including teachers for whom it will be added to the bonus provided for under the “teacher pact”. It will be left to the discretion of local authorities who will certainly come under strong pressure from their agents.
The salary package includes other less important measures but having a concrete impact for civil servants: an increase in the reimbursement of the public transport package from September (from 50% to 75% for the Navigo pass); a revaluation of the redemption price of RTT days in the time savings account; a revaluation of mission expenses and the renewal of the Individual Purchasing Power Guarantee mechanism, in the event of a loss of purchasing power calculated over four years.
According to the ministry’s calculations, all of the measures will represent a “gain in remuneration of 13% for the lowest salaries compared to January 2023” and for the same “on 1is January 2024 up to 7% index gain” compared to 1is January 2023. By integrating the categorical measures, the ministry is putting forward an increase in the overall salary envelope of 6.8% in 2023.
“Disappointment” of the unions
Stanislas Guerini defended at the end of the meeting measures having “a very concrete impact on the agents who need it the most, those hit hard by inflation on basic necessities and food products”.
The unions, while acknowledging that the minister fought to obtain leeway, tried themselves until the end to snatch a second meeting on wages, without success. The CGT, the FSU and Solidaires even left the meeting… Which was regarding to end. But on the side of the others too, we did not hide his “disappointment”.
“The nature of the measures is rather interesting, but the real disappointment is the magnitude of the envelope,” said Mylène Jacquot of the CFDT Civil Service. “Disappointment” also from his counterpart from the federation of FO officials. Christian Grolier points to announcements “below the expectations of agents, in particular on the purchasing power bonus which excludes those who need it most, the C categories concentrated in the territorial”.
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