Minister of the Civil Service Stanislas Guerini, at the Elysée, March 6, 2024 (AFP/Archives/STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN)
“The whole country wants there to be no strikes” during the Olympic Games (July 26-August 11), said Public Service Minister Stanislas Guerini on Saturday, two days after calls for strikes launched by the CGT and FO.
“This moment (the Games, Editor’s note) must be a moment of success for the nation,” insisted the minister on Franceinfo radio. “I meet a lot of public officials, there is not one who announced to me their intention to strike” during the event, he assured.
On Thursday, the general secretary of the CGT Sophie Binet affirmed that the union would file strike notices in April in the three branches of the civil service (state, territorial, hospital), for the period covering the Olympic Games.
A few hours after this announcement from the first public sector union, the second (Force Ouvrière) followed suit by announcing a strike notice running from March 19, the day of inter-union mobilization for the salaries of public employees, to September 8 .
The CFDT (3rd union) and the Unsa (4th) have conversely made it known that at this stage they are not calling for mobilization in the public service during the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Saturday on franceinfo, Stanislas Guerini judged “very inaccurate” the unions’ assertion that there would be no dialogue with the government to prepare for the Olympic Games. A meeting between the administration and the unions is scheduled for Tuesday, he recalled.
He also confirmed that public officials mobilized during the Olympics would receive bonuses of 500, 1,000 or even 1,500 euros, depending on their degree of involvement and the impact of the event on their profession.
“A special, additional system” is planned “for the security forces, who will be particularly mobilized”, he added, a few weeks after the government’s announcement of bonuses of up to 1,900 euros for certain police officers and gendarmes.
Stanislas Guerini also announced that 10,000 universal service employment vouchers (Cesu) would be paid to civil servants mobilized during the Olympics, up to 200 euros per child as a general rule and 350 euros per child for single-parent families.
“We are going to set up nursery places, reserve 1,000 places in holiday centers to be able to further help families who send children to camp,” he concluded.
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