Dismissal, merit-based pay, overhaul of categories… The government’s avenues for reforming the civil service
The thorny issue of civil service reform is now being tested by consultations with the unions. The Minister of Transformation and Public Service, Stanislas Guerini, launched negotiations on his bill on Tuesday April 9 in Paris. Two more meetings are planned for May 14 and June 20. Announced in September 2023, the reform arouses concern among social partners and the 5.7 million public employees, particularly after the shock declarations of the minister at Parisian, Tuesday. Franceinfo lists the avenues considered at this stage.
Within the civil service, civil servant jobs are classified into three hierarchical categories (A, B and C), depending on qualification levels. These distinctions are present in the three sectors of the public service: state, territorial and hospital. Teachers, hospital doctors, tax inspectors or department heads belong to category A. Specialized educators and customs inspectors to category B, caregivers or nursery school agents to category C, for example.
But these categories are considered too rigid by Stanislas Guerini. Guest of France Inter on Wednesday, the minister expressed regret for a system which “blocks a lot of things and puts glass ceilings over the heads of agents”, blockages linked according to him to their diplomas and their training. The objective of the reform is, according to him, to allow agents to “get home more easily”of “move more easily” and of “sometimes being able to leave the civil service more quickly”.
“I want us to lift the taboo of dismissal in the public service”said Stanislas Guerini in The Parisianpointing a “culture of avoidance on these subjects” and immediately arousing the anger of the unions. As the site reminds us Vie-publique.frthe professional status of permanent civil servant guarantees a job and obliges the administration to find “the civil servant is given a job corresponding to his grade in the event of job abolition”contrary to what is planned for contract agents or trainees.
The minister intends to attack this principle of lifelong employment by broadening the sanctions in the event of professional inadequacy. Dismissal for professional inadequacy in the public service is a “very poorly defined tool and extremely little applied”lamented Stanislas Guerini on France Inter.
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