Public Service Solidarity Press Release / Salaries, illness: faced with the minister’s refusal to accept, this cannot last

Solidaires Civil Service took part in the meeting between Guillaume Kasbarian, Minister of the Civil Service, and the trade union organizations representing the public service.

This was an opportunity for Solidaires to share its requirements and in particular:

• the withdrawal of the bill says Guérini
• the abandonment of government amendments providing for 3 waiting days and the move to 90% compensation for 3 months of illness
• maintaining the GIPA
• the opening of salary negotiations with ambitious envelopes making it possible to respond to the scale of the salary emergency in the public service.

If the minister has announced that he is renouncing the elimination of the categories, all the rest of the Guérini bill seems well maintained, notably with the promotion of individual and collective investment, that is to say remuneration based on merit, and the construction of projects for departures from the civil service, which we can implicitly imagine are notably layoffs…

Going through consultation instead of a bill does not change the fundamental guidelines that are unacceptable for the public service.

The minister also responded to the union organizations by rejecting the 3 days of waiting time, the reduction in sick leave compensation and confirmed the absence of salary measures for 2024.

All of this is unacceptable. Civil servants are not a cost but an asset.

For Solidaires Civil Service, the time has come for mobilization with a day of strike to build in the face of the ministry’s reaffirmed desire to impose stigmatizing measures on public employees that will impoverish them.

This is what our organization will carry in the broadest unity, particularly during next week’s inter-union meeting.