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Tenure of apprentices, relaxation of promotions: the Minister of the Civil Service, Stanislas Guerini, outlined on Thursday at the National Assembly the contours of his future bill on the civil service, expected “by the end of the year “. “We must be able to enter the public service more easily, move more easily within the public service and sometimes be able to leave the public service more quickly,” he summarized before the Law Commission.
Facilitate the tenure of apprentices
Stanislas Guerini also said he wanted to “better pay those who go out of their way to provide our public services”, more than four years after the “public service transformation law” carried by the government of Edouard Philippe.
Concretely, the government wants to facilitate the tenure of apprentices who are satisfactory, rather than forcing them to take a competitive examination. He also intends to make the promotion system more flexible, with promotions sometimes being conditional on recruitment. “Today, I no longer know how to explain to a mayor why he cannot promote a deserving agent since he has not recruited three agents from outside,” illustrated Mr. Guerini.
Better promotion of training for public officials
Finally, “we also need to be able to make better use of the years spent outside the public service,” said the minister. Announced in September by Stanislas Guerini, the bill on the civil service must be the subject of consultations with the unions “in the coming weeks”, he recalled on Thursday. The government’s objective is for the text to be finalized “by the end of the year”.
A series of resolutions which does not convince the secretary general of the UNSA-Public Service, Luc Farré. For him, this project must be the subject not of consultation but of negotiation with the unions. “The essential thing is missing, that is to say how, today, we allow public agents not to lose purchasing power. Here, I am going to say harshly to the minister: let’s increase the remuneration of agents. This is the first priority and concern of public officials,” he declared on Europe 1.
No new measures on the supervision of the use of consulting firms by the State
Stanislas Guerini also implicitly ruled out the inclusion on the Assembly agenda of a proposed law governing the State’s use of consulting firms, adopted in October 2022 by the Senate.
Questioned on this subject by the socialist MP Cécile Untermaier, he simply recalled the measures already taken by the government to limit the use of consulting firms. Twenty new consultant positions must be created within the administration in 2024, ten fewer than in 2023, he said.