Civil service unions asked Minister Guillaume Kasbarian on Tuesday for a quick meeting on salaries and the abandonment of the civil service reform bill launched by his predecessor.
While the Government announced on Sunday that it wanted to save 1.2 billion euros by aligning public sick leave compensation practices with those of the private sector, “stigmatizing measures that will affect the most vulnerable agents”, according to the eight signatory representative unions, They ask in a letter to Guillaume Kasbarian to include in the agenda a meeting “in (their) presence” about salaries “as soon as possible.”
“Our organizations reaffirm the urgency of providing answers” to these salary demands, write the leaders of the UFA-CFDT, the CGT Public Service, the UIAFP-FO, the Solidarity Public Service, the Federation of Public Services CFE-CGC, FA- FP, FSU and Unsa Public Service.
“We want the total abandonment” of the public service reform
They want, in particular, the maintenance of the Gipa, a compensation paid to civil servants whose remuneration has increased less rapidly than inflation and which the government is considering abolishing. They also ask for a “rapid clarification” of the Government’s intentions “on the bill relating to the ‘efficiency’ of the public service”, launched by Guillaume Kasbarian’s predecessor, Stanislas Guerini, and frozen by the dissolution. “As for the method, the unanimous request of our organizations is clear: we want this project to be completely abandoned,” they write.
The text provided for increasing remuneration based on merit, facilitating dismissals or eliminating the historical system of categories (A, B and C) of the public service. “The reformist ambition is intact,” declared Guillaume Kasbarian last week.
On Tuesday, on RTL, he stated that he did not want to “throw away” the idea of eliminating the categories and wanted to “continue discussing” remunerations based on merit and dismissal “in case of insufficiency.”
The unions are also “waiting for answers” regarding the social protection rights of agents, and “intend for the signed agreements to be applied.” “You had expressed your desire for social dialogue,” the organizations reminded their minister. But “since then, a social agenda has been imposed without any consultation and, at the same time, a certain number of decisions with serious consequences (…) already seem to have been taken without any discussion.” According to them, “it is necessary that they can receive us quickly to relaunch a true social dialogue.”
Source: BFM TV