On the scale of the austerity plan announced by Bruno Le Maire, it is a drop in the bucket: 3.5 million euros out of an overall economy of 10 billion. But, at the level of labor inspection services, it is a new wave which could swallow up employment: around a hundred additional positions, out of a total workforce of 1,600 labor inspectors, have just disappeared by a discreet blow planer which has so far not been mentioned before the trade union organizations…
Last fall, Olivier Dussopt, then Minister of Employment, boasted in front of the deputies, during the examination of the finance bill (PLF) for 2024, of an increase in recruitment, via the competition (200 positions) and via secondment (100 positions), in this crucial sector for the rights and protection of workers.
100 new positions planned ultimately eliminated
In the official budget document, the government even boasted: “These significant volumes reflect the proactive recruitment policy intended to strengthen the workforce of the labor inspectorate. » The ace ! A few months later, the ministry has just purely and simply buried the 100 positions which were to be accessible, without competition, to civil servants from other administrations. “We inform you that no recruitment campaign for labor inspectors through secondment is planned for the year 2024”, wrote, in a message to the candidates, that Humanity was able to consult the human resources department.
At the labor inspection, this bleeding is added to the others… The CGT of the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Vocational Training (CGT-TEFP) made public, at the beginning of the week, a map listing the vacant sections at the labor inspectorate: in certain departments such as Oise, Corse-du-Sud, Cher, Mayenne, Val-de-Marne, Eure-et-Loir and Sarthe, this rate exceeds 40%.
According to the latest official count from the ministry, as of December 31, 2023, of the 2,005 existing sections, 368 are without holders, or 18.5% of the total. With more than 10,000 workers covered on average per agent, they are, as Simon Picou of the CGT denounces, nearly “4 million employees” Who “do not have access to the public labor inspection service, due to lack of sufficient recruitment in recent years”.
Worse still: the rate of vacant positions in the labor inspectorate is increasing, while, to hide the shortage, the ministry has undertaken a long plan to eliminate territorial sections. According to a report from the Court of Auditors on “the management of human resources of the Ministry of Labor”, published on February 28, their number increased from 2,194 in 2017 to 2,048 in 2022.
The institution also reports : “In detail, between 2015 and 2021, the main contributor to job savings was the labor inspectorate, which lost 16% of its workforce, or nearly 740 FTEs (full-time equivalents). »
According to Simon Picou, the trend has become even more pronounced in recent months. “In the Meuse, for example, there were 6 positions in 2022, 5 last year and 4 this year, illustrates the trade unionist. The decline continues, we are calling for an end to the job cuts, and for the recruitment necessary to fill them, starting with the reinstatement of all those planned for 2024.”
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2024-03-05 21:09:31
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