A new report presented Tuesday during an exceptional social and economic committee (CSE) of the Banque de France, the second in two days, highlights the understaffing in certain services and the existence of psychosocial risks within the ‘institution.
The workload seems problematic in certain areas of the Bank, underlines the external firm Technologia, mandated following two suicides of employees in the fiduciary sector (which delivers and collects notes and coins) in June 2023, one of the two having left a letter implicating his employer.
At headquarters, the succession of reorganizations gives dizzinesswhich is particularly detrimental to the smooth running of the activity, continues the report, produced after around 300 employee interviews.
Unions regularly denounce the consequences of staff cuts in the recent period. The Banque de France now has 9,300 employees, compared to nearly 14,000 employees in 2005.
More than half of the agents questioned considered their workload heavy or too heavy, according to another report commissioned by management and presented on January 18.
Another complaint is that the management team seems not to have heard the warning signals which have not failed to appear, specify the authors of the report, who speak of a breeding ground for psychosocial risks.
In an internal letter consulted by AFP, the Bank’s management evokes essentially burdensome findings and a report guided by the desire to paint a particularly dark portrait of our institution, without a clear and convincing anchor in reality.
Elected officials demand that significant and immediate measures be taken, particularly in terms of recruitment, recognition of qualifications and taking into account the increase in workload within the framework of a renewed social dialogue, responded the CGT unions. , CFE-CGC and SNABF Solidaires in a joint press release.
The Technologia report includes a certain number of recommendations on working conditions, social dialogue practices and the detection and treatment of psychosocial risks.