a number of unions threaten to strike | EUROtoday

Social battle within the public service appears increasingly inevitable. Ulcerated by the federal government’s announcement of desirous to deal with sick go away for civil servants, the union organizations despatched a joint letter to Guillaume Kasbarian on October 29, demanding a gathering. The Minister of the Civil Service due to this fact obtained them on Thursday, November 7 for greater than two hours. A time of dialogue which has not likely calmed their anger, since a number of federations are already calling for a strike within the coming weeks.

The environment was comparatively tense and the minister made no try to again down. He thus affirmed that the federal government intends to take care of the amendments to the finance invoice for 2025 which intention to use three unpaid days of absence within the occasion of absence for well being causes – in comparison with only one presently – and restrict remuneration to 90% of the brokers’ wage when the work stoppage extends past this three-day interval.

These selections, which intention to align the general public sector with the principles in pressure within the personal sector, would finally save 1.2 billion euros per 12 months. According to the individuals, the minister remained deaf to the unions’ arguments, assuming to take selections “difficult” however “necessary”.

He additionally confirmed that there can be no improve within the index level in 2024 and that the person buying energy assure – a mechanism which permits brokers who’ve misplaced buying energy on the 4 years of receiving monetary compensation – wouldn’t be paid both.

“Three days of waiting, three days of strike”

There was, nonetheless, just a little optimistic for the union organizations. Guillaume Kasbarian introduced that he would abandon the abolition of classes of civil servants (A, B and C). The measure, Emmanuel Macron’s marketing campaign promise in 2022, was on this system of the invoice carried by the earlier minister of the civil service, Stanislas Guerini. His successor mentioned he didn’t need “to prosper” this mission, in accordance with assembly individuals.

The minister additionally proposed launching consultations on three areas: the attractiveness of the civil service and the retention of brokers, profession administration and a plan for the prevention and discount of absences. As it stands, it’s tough to know whether or not Guillaume Kasbarian intends to current a invoice regardless of the whole lot, or whether or not he might be content material with regulatory measures or decrees. In any case, he assured Agence France-Presse that he needs “maintain a constant and frank dialogue with trade union organizations” in an effort to “to move forward constructively on essential issues for agents and the future of the civil service”. But given the relations with representatives of civil servants, the discussions promise to be difficult.

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