“I accept the fact that there are variations in recruitment depending on demographics,” assures the Minister of the Civil Service Guillaume Kasbarian at the microphone of Public Senate. Justified by an expected drop in the number of students in schools at the start of the next school year, the government is in fact proposing, as part of the 2025 budget, the elimination of 4,000 teaching positions.
“When we have 97,000 fewer students in school next year, this could raise questions about recruitment needs,” he believes. The minister would also like to see this demographic logic applied everywhere in the public service: “This approach to staffing based on demographics, I believe it is beneficial and that we should carry it out across all of our administrations . »
Guillaume Kasbarian was also questioned about the increase of 6 cents per month planned for 200,000 civil service agents from November 1, as part of the increase in the minimum wage announced by the government. A salary increase which arouses the anger of the unions, described as “insignificant” and a mark of “contempt” by the CGT civil service. A salary increase described as “automatic and mechanical” by the minister, who emphasizes that civil servants are already “the vast majority of whom are paid above the minimum wage”.
Deleted in the Senate, the simplified pay slip proposal abandoned by the government?
Finally, the minister was delighted that the bill on the simplification of economic life, adopted on October 22 in the Senate, will soon continue its journey in the Assembly. “It is a very good text, which will make it possible to carry out simplification measures, particularly in the economic life of our fellow citizens: the elimination of Théodule committees, stopping requests for authorization for a certain number of acts…”, explains Guillaume Kasbarian.
Among the previous government’s proposals in this bill, however, some aroused disagreement in the Senate. The gradual end of 1,800 Cerfa forms will thus be recorded, not by order as proposed by the government, but within the framework of amendments proposed in the text to the Assembly, at the request of senators.
Finally, the implementation of a simplified pay slip, rejected by the Senate, may not return to the text in the Assembly. “I hear the reluctance and the arguments of the senators, I hear the arguments of the economic world which sometimes highlights the risk that there are complexities in making this simplified pay slip,” conceded the minister. Guillaume Kasbarian, however, does not commit to definitively removing the measure from the bill. “I leave options open on the table,” he says.
