LPublic services constitute the basis of our social model. They are a vector of republican integration and reflect our collective aspirations for equality in rights and dignity. However, the bill to control immigration, improve integration, which has just been adopted by the Senate, and will soon be examined in the National Assembly, completely ignores professions in tension, essential, in our public administrations.
There is no need to convince the French of the lack of staff in our public services. National education has just postponed registration for competitions by a month, a third of town hall secretaries will retire within eight years and, according to the National Council of the Order of Physicians, practitioners graduates from outside the European Union already represent at least 11% of doctors installed in public hospitals.
While the civil service faces a major crisis of attractiveness, it is depriving itself of skills by excluding part of the population: more than 4 million civil servant jobs cannot be occupied by non-European foreigners.
Contractual status
We strongly affirm this: our civil service must be more representative of French society. Initially reserved for nationals only, the civil service status was opened to European Union nationals more than thirty years ago, with the exception of certain jobs falling under national sovereignty or public authority prerogatives.
The time has come to take a new step for people who live regularly in France, contribute to national solidarity by paying their taxes and already work in our public services, most often in precarious conditions.
Indeed, today, our administrations can only employ non-European foreigners under a contractual status, with a large number seeing their contracts renewed from year to year, with no prospect of career development or remuneration. As non-European foreigners cannot be permanent civil servants, but only recruited by contract, they suffer this situation which today reveals legal hypocrisy, a source of social inequalities and heresy in the face of the difficulties of recruiting the function public.
Hypocrisy
We meet them every day, at the administration counter, at the bedside of the sick in the hospital, in our streets collecting waste, in the corridors of our buildings maintaining the premises, in our IT services…
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