The government is secretly preparing a drastic reform of the civil service statute
Almost 5 million French people exercise their activity in one of the different fields of the public service (State, territorial collectivity and hospital sector). The activity of these civil servants covers many fields, from health to education, from research to public security, from financial management to justice. Their status sheltered them from a number of pressures from their employer, the state, which was also a pretty bad boss. Public sector workers accommodated the situation, many being attached to their profession, bartering limited career advancement for job security. The government's reform project "relating to mobility and professional careers in the public service" could open the door to a dismissal in public servants. Explanations.
Criticized by the Liberals, the work of public service personnel is essential to the functioning of the country, to its social cohesion, and through cost-sharing provides a service as good and cheaper for the user than the private sector. It is enough to be convinced of this fact to look at the cost and the quality of service of the rail sector in the United Kingdom. The same observation exists between when we compare the French healthcare system to its American counterpart. Closer to home, let's look at the additional costs that appeared during the real false privatization of EDF, relating to services that were previously free or inexpensive, such as line reopening, checking, changing meters or contracts, not to mention the cost of kWh, which is set to disappear.
As we have understood, the public sector represents a major embarrassment from a liberal perspective, eager to apply the European recommendations in the area of trade and services. The planned reduction in public sector resources has hitherto encountered a massive pitfall, the statute of the public service, limiting the possibility of dismissing agents of the State, local authorities and the hospital, except of course for gross negligence. However, according to Marianne, under the guise of improving the mobility and professional career of civil servants, the government is simply preparing the constructive dismissal of civil servants. Article 7 of this project provides that an agent who would be "deprived of 'assignment following the abolition or substantial modification of one's job' could benefit from support measures, such as 'vocational training or retraining actions'. This can be "led to exercise temporary missions with departments with a view to enriching skills or retraining". So far, no complaints, the project seems rather profitable to officials. On the other hand, the project plans to modify articles 44 et seq. Of law 84-16 of January 11, 1984 "laying down statutory provisions relating to the public service of the State" as follows: "Professional reorientation is the situation in which to be placed the civil servant whose employment was abolished or modified in a substantial way ... The reorientation is pronounced for a maximum duration of two years. At the end of this period and provided that the administration has taken all necessary steps to promote the professional reorientation of the official, the latter may be placed on availability automatically ”. In other words, at the end of two years, the official may find himself without salary, which constitutes a disguised way of dismissing him and a fundamental questioning of the status of official.
We can therefore easily imagine all the excesses of the system. A magistrate who would resist a little too much the pressures of his hierarchy could see his post disappear, and offer training to join the legal service of an administration in French overseas departments and territories, too independent police officers could find themselves in the prison administration, an embarrassing town hall secretary informed of financial embezzlement could be fired after two years, etc. Likewise with regard to the fate of National Education, where teachers' jobs are cut by the hundreds. For the moment, they are partially protected by their statute, but for how long are they and the other civil servants protected from the risk of casualization?
This risk of casualization is a powerful means of controlling the employees' desire for protest and their freedom of speech. This is, we should not kid ourselves, one of the main aims of this reform. The text of the law recognizes this in half-words, when it stipulates in its article 9 that "The general statute and the Labor code are modified to provide for the recourse to the interim by public organizations, which will be able within this framework to fill quickly take temporary vacations or cope with occasional, seasonal or extra activity needs ”. Yes, you read that right, this is the use of temporary workers, not CDD! The text of the law more clearly acknowledges its aim of casualization when it stipulates that the article 44 mentioned above could also be modified in the following way: "The administration defines with the civil servant placed in professional reorientation a personalized project of professional evolution having for object: 1- to favor its reassignment on a job corresponding to its grade in its service or in another administration; 2- to access another body or framework of employment of at least equivalent level; 3- to access a job in the private sector ”. In short, two years after having seen his post abolished, for the public sector agent, it will be “accept this job”, “come back on an interim basis” or “join the private sector! "
But-68 was forty years ago, right? Birthdays are celebrated ...
Source: http://www.agoravox.fr/article.php3?id_article=37556