This is the first since the arrival of Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee. The 2023 finance bill forecasts an overall balance of positive job creation and loss of 10,764 net hires for next year. This pattern of green employment is based on the strengthening of resources allocated to sovereign functions with more than 3,000 contracts in the Ministry of the Interior, just under 2,300 in the Ministry of Justice and more than 1,500 in the Ministry of the Armed Forces. The Ministry of National Education and Youth also registers the creation of 2,000 jobs.
The Ministry of Economy, especially affected by the recent waves of casualties
Without even looking at its scale, this wave of net hiring is a break from the employment patterns of previous finance bills. Last year, the overall balance of job creation and loss was negative by 509 full-time equivalent (FTE) positions for the 2022 financial year due to significant reductions by the Ministries of Economy, Finance and Recovery with the transformation of the Directorates General of Public Finances.
It was then a steeper drop than the previous two employment patterns that were closer to a stable level with 157 eliminations for the 2021 finance bill and only 47 for the 2020 one. Bercy has already concentrated part of these reductions of together with the Ministry of Action and Public Accounts and that of the Ecological and Solidarity Transition.
Substantial employment patterns for 2016 and 2017
But these slightly negative balances were disproportionate to the results of the 2019 finance bill and its more than 4,000 expected net job cuts, among other things, on the National Education side. This finance bill had then accentuated the forecasts of its predecessor that had around 1,600 job cuts for the year 2018, most of them still being captured by Bercy and the Ministry of Ecological and Solidarity Transition.
François Hollande’s five-year term ended with two finance bills that gave a privileged place to hiring with around 14,000 jobs created in 2016 and 2017, in higher education but also in defense, security and justice after the terrorist attacks. The 2015 finance law had made it possible to largely reconnect with a positive global balance (+7,000 jobs) after the expected drop in 2014 (-1,000 jobs).
Source: BFM TV
