While the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, received local elected officials and representatives of parliamentary groups, the Minister of Transformation and the Public Service, Amélie de Montchalin, met, Tuesday, December 21, with the social partners of the public service. It was about discussing the next bill intended to fight against the resumption of the Covid-19 epidemic. At the heart of the discussions: the obligation to present a health pass to go to the workplace. The idea should not appear in the government text, but could appear during parliamentary debate via a majority amendment.
Civil servants’ unions have expressed as little enthusiasm as their private sector counterparts in the face of Elisabeth Borne. “We are opposed to it”, explains Céline Verzeletti, co-secretary general of the Federal Union of Trade Unions of the CGT State, referring to “Medical confidentiality”, implementation difficulties or the delicate issue of sanctions. “It’s not a very good idea, abounds Mylène Jacquot, general secretary of the CFDT Public functions. It would be very difficult to set up. “
The UNSA Civil Service is more flexible in principle. “We are not against the fact that everyone is obliged to present a pass, whether health or vaccination, explains Secretary General Luc Farré. But it should not be the departments themselves, such as the principal in a school, for example, that are required to carry out the verification. Because we go to the front of conflicts. “ For the UNSA, it is up to the Health Insurance, which has all the necessary information, to ensure this monitoring.
“Play the game” of teleworking
“Better to focus on proven measures”, advises Mme Jacquot, for the CFDT. In fact, she cites, the agreement on teleworking in the public service, signed on July 13, 2021 by all the representative organizations, could already be better applied. The minister also agreed during the videoconference consultation on Tuesday. “Today, we can go up to three days a week on a voluntary basis, we say in the entourage of Mme by Montchalin. Our problem is that everyone plays along and puts the chord in place. “
In fact, today, only one in two agents is concerned, and the situation is very bad in some administrations. “The minister called her colleagues to order”, reports Natacha Pommet, general secretary of the CGT Federation of public services (for local officials). Another hypothetical track mentioned on Tuesday: the fact that officials today subject to a health pass are now required to have the vaccine pass. “This concerns agents who are in contact with users, in museums or sports facilities, for example, explains Céline Verzeletti, for the CGT. It is a measure of parallelism. “ Vaccination pass for users, therefore vaccination pass for officials.
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