The director of information of the public audiovisual group is committed to maintaining a certain number of fixed-term contracts.
The fears of the editorial staff of France Télévisions about the non-renewal this summer of a certain number of fixed-term contracts will be lifted. According to our information, after the reorganization of the summer schedules of the France 2 and France 3 news, and with the agreement of the Presidency, the information department announced internally the maintenance of 16 journalists on fixed-term contracts and the integration of two of them in CDI.
Should we see in this decision a gesture of appeasement? Without a doubt. The announcement comes indeed while Laurent Guimier, the director of information of France Télévisions, is targeted by a motion of no confidence which will be put to the vote on June 30th. It is particularly around this question of the non-renewal of fixed-term contracts that the anger has crystallized. In addition to the choice of Mohamed Bouhafsi, columnist in “C à vous” on France 5, a program produced by the external company Mediawan, to cover Emmanuel Macron’s trip to Ukraine on June 17. While no journalist from the editorial staff had been sent there…
Demining operation
This Friday, the manager himself announced the decision to maintain fixed-term contracts for editorial executives and then, in the process, for the Society of Journalists of the public audiovisual group. “Questions have been raised. Today, the management concretely answers one of these questions“, Indicates a source close to the file. Other reasons for tensions remain, however. Will the demining operation bear fruit? Answer in the next few days.
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