After the end of the year marked by media revelations about the brutal management in certain services of the Prime Minister, the executive is setting up a new alert system. Saturday 1is January, a decree aimed at implementing a “System for reporting and dealing with acts of violence, discrimination, harassment and situations of suffering at work” within the services of the Prime Minister has been published to Official newspaper.
This decree specifies that this system is open to “Victims or witnesses” current records of these acts, as well as to agents who left the Prime Minister’s service for less than six months. An anonymized assessment of the reports and their processing will be “Presented to the health, safety and working conditions committee [CHSCT] », adds the text, in order to have a global vision and over the duration of the situation.
This system is the result of a legal obligation for all public employers, decided by the law of 6 August 2019 on the transformation of the public service, but had not yet been implemented within the services of the Prime Minister. At the end of September, a draft decree had been presented to the trade unions.
Sickness, burn-out and antidepressants
In recent months, several investigations had brought to light facts of brutal management in these services.
In June, the specialized media Public actors revealed a climate of tension within the interministerial digital department (Dinum), a service in particular responsible for the modernization of the State. At issue: the new policy of non-renewal of agents who have reached the end of their two fixed-term contracts. Still on the subject of Dinum, an investigation by World reported, in December, the testimony of twenty agents concerning the increase in sick leave, burn-out and antidepressant prescriptions in this service. Its director, Nadi Bou Hanna, announced that he would be stepping down from ” mid-January “.
In July, The world reported similar facts within the government information service (SIG). An audit had been commissioned by the Prime Minister’s office concerning its director, Michael Nathan, and had concluded that there had been no facts of harassment.