At a time when the Organizing Committee for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games (Cojop) is looking for savings to try to maintain the balance of its budget (4.4 billion euros), even if it means requesting certain of its public partners (Ile-de-France region, City of Paris) so that they take charge of certain expenses, the disclosure of salary increases within the management of the entity, carried out at the end of the year 2022, is a bit of a stain.
MP (Socialist Party) Claudia Rouaux, quoted by the program “Further investigation” on France 2 which is to be broadcast on Thursday March 28 in the evening, reports as well as increases, which “ concern around ten senior executives”, were validated in November 2022 by the Paris 2024 remuneration committee.
“For the majority, it’s between 7% and 10%. But some of them make jumps of 15,000 euros over a year. Others see an increase of 32,000 euros. There is even a communications director who sees her salary increase from 150,000 to 195,000 euros per year,” explains the elected official, member of the remuneration committee since September 2023.
She confirmed part of these figures, Wednesday morning, during the hearing by the Cultural Affairs Committee of the National Assembly of Tony Estanguet, the president of Cojop, and Michel Cadot, the interministerial delegate to the Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Dijop).
“How do you explain the budgetary drift in the payroll, which could exceed 100 million euros for a total expenditure of around 600 million euros, and on the other hand justify that this last year, the year of the Games [il] have [été] decided on increases as staggering as that of 45,000 euros on a basic annual salary of 155,000 euros? “, she said.
Decisions “validated unanimously by the board of directors”
“The salaries of the management group have not been increased,” replied Tony Estanguet, before specifying that this had however been the case for “ exceptional cases of certain people » : “we realized that there was a pay gap in a few cases and this was recently readjusted”, he explained, citing in particular “ reasons for equal pay between women and men”.
“All of this is very closely followed,” assured Mr. Estanguet, citing the role of the independent remuneration committee, which “reports directly to the board of directors”. “All decisions on remuneration are validated, particularly for senior executives, unanimously by the Cojop board of directors”, where the State sits in particular, noted Michel Cadot for his part. “That was the case,” he clarified regarding the increases mentioned at the end of 2022.
Mr. Estanguet also justified the increase in the overall payroll for Paris 2024, the amount of which is now estimated at 584 million euros, by the need to be able to capture “know-how of international experts”by “the evolution of the scope of the organization” and by “strong inflation which required an increase in wages, particularly low wages”.
“97% of secure needs” in private security
Tony Estanguet declared, Wednesday before the deputies of the Cultural Affairs Committee, that “97% of needs” in private security have been contractualized and “secure”, whether by the Paris 2024 Games Organizing Committee (Cojop) or by the operators who have been entrusted with the management of certain sites (Roland-Garros for example). Cojop’s needs for private security agents are estimated at 17,000 on average per day, and 22,000 at peak. Paris 2024 must now ensure that the companies selected have adequate human resources. It was decided to recruit “20% to 30%” additional people to compensate for possible absences on D-day, declared the interministerial delegate to the Olympic Games, Michel Cadot. The latter added that an assessment of available human resources will be established at the end of April. “There are some adjustments that will need to be made from the beginning of May. It’s a reasonable time frame,” he clarified, referring to recourse to the army in the event of a shortage of personnel.
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