Step by step, the public service is based on the private sector model. Although the conventional breakup is in the Government’s viewfinder to better regulate the openings of the law to the unemployment insurance, the Minister of Public Action, the Public Service and the Simplification, Laurent Marcangeli, plans to perpetuate this mode of termination of the employment contract for civil officials and contracted workers.
In fact, an experiment was launched on the three tracks (state civil, territorial and hospital service) on January 1, 2020 and must be completed on December 31, 2025, as provided in a decree of implementation of the Law for the transformation of the public service of August 6, 2019.
Five years later, “it seems that the experimentation of the conventional rupture for public officials found a limited but real success,” said the minister in a written response published on August 5 to a question raised by the Deputy Horizons Marie-Agnès Poussier-Winsback.
A new law must be approved to penetrate the system.
Laurent Marcangeli specifies that a report, elaborating the evaluation of this experiment, has already been presented to Parliament on March 14, and to take into account this evaluation, “the sustainability by legislative means of this system is now expected.”
In other words, although the system will end at the end of the year, the new law must be examined and adopted by deputies and senators so that hired officials and workers can continue requesting a contractual breakup to leave public service with compensation and an opening of unemployment insurance rights.
Masters escape in National Education
If the transposition of conventional ruptures, previously reserved for the private sector, in the three slopes of the public service is perceived quite well, the unions remain on alert. “The most numerous requests are in national education and all are not necessarily validated because it takes many teachers in front of the students. But the fact that there are so many requests remains the sign that there is a deterioration in working conditions and remuneration,” increases with the BFM Mylène Jacquot business, general secretary of the Public Service of CFDT.
For Sophie Venetitay, general secretary of SNES-FSU, the conventional break in public service is “a good barometer of the state of national education.” “There are many requests, but they are not always satisfied. We have many colleagues who resort to conventional breakup because their working conditions are so degraded that, ultimately, they resort to conventional breakup as an alternative to the resignation,” he explains with BFM businesses.
This professor of Economic and Social Sciences at High School at Essonne is prudent against the intentions of the Government to perpetuate conventional ruptures in public service.
And for a good reason: in his public finance recovery plan, presented on July 15, Prime Minister François Bayrou plans to cut in public service staff. The Head of Government has announced the abolition of 3,000 public jobs next year, to contribute to 43.8 billion euros in savings expected in 2026 “. With the conventional breakup, it is the end of employment for life in public service,” Sophie Venetitay sighs.
Compensation considered “too weak”
Most conventional ruptures signed since the beginning of the experiment have been in the state public service. “There were 4,642 between 2020 and 2022,” specifies Luc Farre, who expects the figures of the 1920s and 2024. “There is no data for the territorial public and hospital public service because the requests are really too weak on these two sides,” the general secretary of the Public Service of the UNSA completes.
In fact, the minimum amount of the specific compensation for the contractual termination (ISC) is correlated with the age of the official or the contractual. Up to 10 years of exercise in public service, for example, corresponds to a quarter of a month of gross monthly remuneration, multiplied by the number of years of seniority.
In the private sector, in accordance with collective agreements or branch agreements, it happens that contractual termination assignments are equivalent to a month of gross salary per year of seniority, which is necessarily more advantageous.
Source: BFM TV
