Civil service: the federal government prepared to barter extra on salaries

The administration and civil servant unions start a brand new spherical of discussions on remuneration on Tuesday in Paris, with the federal government saying its goal of creating within the public annual wage negotiations much like the “obligatory annual negotiations” (NAO) within the non-public sector.

In a current letter to the unions consulted by AFP, the Minister of the Civil Service Stanislas Guerini affirms his “curiosity” in “actual” wage negotiations between the employers of the three branches of the civil service, the representatives of the brokers and the federal government . Lately, unions have recurrently denounced wage measures introduced by the manager with out prior negotiation.

A brand new “technique” of annual negotiation on remuneration

On the finish of the discussions that Stanislas Guerini is because of launch on Tuesday, the federal government hopes to achieve an settlement with unions and employers on a brand new “technique” of annual negotiation on remuneration, extra participatory. Concretely, employers (ministries, native authorities, hospitals, and many others.) and unions would meet every year within the first half of the 12 months to agree on the wage will increase to be utilized the next 12 months.

Sufficient to provide a bit visibility to territorial employers, who don’t recognize having to combine wage will increase determined through the 12 months by the federal government into their already voted annual budgets. The envisaged mannequin is impressed by “obligatory annual negotiations” (NAO) which carry collectively enterprise leaders and worker consultant organizations every year to set the extent of future will increase.

Discussions till November

In response to the provisional timetable despatched by the federal government to civil servant unions, negotiations on this new framework for wage discussions should proceed till November. Past the negotiation technique, the federal government additionally intends to launch separate negotiations with the unions in November on “the structural rules of profession growth and remuneration”.

Regardless of two basic will increase granted to five.7 million public staff in 2022 (+3.5%) and 2023 (+1.5%), unions proceed to demand pay will increase to help the buying energy of civil servants going through inflation, measured at 4.9% over one 12 months by INSEE in September.

Tense dialogue in communities

Social dialogue is especially tense within the communities, the place the six consultant unions (CGT, CFDT, FO, FA-FP, Unsa, FSU) once more regretted in a press launch on Monday that their position was “restricted to figuration”. The inter-union can’t settle for {that a} bonus introduced in June by the federal government, which ministries and hospitals are obliged to pay, is non-obligatory in communities.

To mark her dissatisfaction, she introduced on Monday that she would boycott the subsequent assembly (scheduled for Wednesday) of the Superior Council of the Territorial Civil Service, a consultative physique bringing collectively the administration, territorial employers and unions.

Other than salaries, Stanislas Guerini proposes in his letter to the unions to open negotiations on skilled equality (between mid-December 2023 and March 2024), working situations (January-June 2024) {and professional} coaching (April -June 2024). However, a easy “session” of consultant organizations is deliberate on the longer term invoice dedicated to the civil service, which the federal government hopes to develop by the top of the 12 months.