Public service: three questions on the words of Minister Stanislas Guerini who wants "lift the taboo of dismissal"
“I want us to lift the taboo of dismissal in the public service.” This is the shocking little sentence from Minister Stanislas Guerini in The Parisian . It does not appear in the documents submitted on Tuesday April 9 to the unions at the opening of a consultation on its future “bill for the efficiency of the civil service” expected at the start of the school year. This reform project aims in particular to increase merit-based pay for civil servants and facilitate transfers from one branch of the civil service to another.
Stanislas Guerini refers to dismissals for professional inadequacy. These are not dismissals for misconduct as there may be in the private sector, assure the unions, but it rather resembles a dismissal procedure for incapacity following an illness or accident. There were only thirteen in 2023 according to the minister’s calculations, out of 2.5 million state civil service agents. Dismissal for professional inadequacy in the public service is a “very poorly defined tool and extremely little applied”regrets Wednesday on France Inter Stanislas Guerini, Minister of the Civil Service.
A figure which should “be delighted”, squeaks a union official, because this proves that individual support and training, where appropriate, makes it possible to reclassify agents. The same trade unionist believes that Stanislas Guerini’s only objective is in reality to reduce the wage bill to match the 20 billion euros in budgetary savings already anticipated in the next finance bill.
This little sentence is therefore, unsurprisingly, very poorly received. “It’s crazy to say that”, summarizes another unionist. Especially since the minister, on the other hand, neglects to talk about the conventional termination system, tested since 2020 like the private sector and from which 5,300 state civil service agents have benefited just between 2020 and 2022. A number considered relatively important. “He told us absolutely nothing! We learned about it in the press”deplores on franceinfo, Natacha Pommet, general secretary of the CGT Civil Service. This is a method that has been denounced for several months, in the face of this minister who prefers the press to social relations with trade union organizations. We cast shame by making people believe that the 5.5 million civil servants suffer from professional inadequacy.”
Through the voice of its deputy general secretary, Yvan Ricordeau, the CFDT, speaks of “double provocation” on “the form” and on “the bottom”. “70,000 positions are missing in the public service”recalls Yvan Ricordeau. “We will not make anyone believe that the subject to be discussed is the question of dismissal. The question is how to make the civil service attractive”, he believes. He denounces a method of decision-making “still very vertical, in the way” including the government “think the changes”. Gold, “society today needs dialogue, discussion, appeasement. We need to find ways of compromise”he concludes.
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