Professional mobility between private and non-private sector: very unequal supervision | EUROtoday

How necessary is the mobility of workers who begin their profession within the public after which spend within the non-public (or vice versa)? What profiles does this phenomenon concern? Do we sufficiently forestall conflicts of curiosity which can consequence from these transfers, and this in accordance with the legislation of transformation of the general public service of August 6, 2019? So many inquiries to which the Court of Auditors tried to reply in its mobility report between the general public and the non-public sector, printed on May 14, 2025.

First remark, these mobility doesn’t weigh very heavy: round 10,000 individuals, based on an estimate made in 2019 and which couldn’t be up to date, “Lack of reliable statistical tools”regrets the Court of Auditors. The strongest mobility is discovered within the excessive public service. Unsurprisingly, the big technical our bodies whose expertise are higher valued in enterprise (engineers of mines, bridges, armaments) go extra within the non-public sector than massive administrative our bodies. That stated, even on this class, the phenomenon stays a minority: 70 % of enarchs by no means go away the administration.

By definition, mobility between private and non-private considerations extra contract employees, which don’t essentially aspire to be established. Their quantity will increase quickly (300,000 further between 2015 and 2023), although they’re “Vectors of interest conflicts, since they have generally already established links with private companies before joining the public sector”observe Elise Untermaier-Kerléo and Jean-François Kerléo, two lecturers specializing in public legislation and co-authors of Ethics of the Public Service (PUF, 2023). To which supporters of this method will retort that they often have to simply accept this threat to recruit competent employees.

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