Officials will benefit from July 1 from a general increase of 3.5 %. A measure that should cost 7.5 billion euros.
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The suspense had lasted for months. Tuesday, June 28, Stanislas Guerini, the new Minister of Public Transformation and Function, has ended it: public officials will benefit from a general increase of 3.5 %, at once and this from 1 ER July. This will represent 7.5 billion euros. Mr. Guerini was to reserve the premiere of the announcement of this revaluation, thought as “an effective measure to protect the purchasing power of civil servants” during this period of strong inflation, to trade union organizations and to public employers, Tuesday morning, during a salary conference.
“This is the highest increase since 1985, specifies the entourage of the Minister. To this is added the automatic individual increases of 1.5 % on average per year. Today, we have 700,000 Smic agents. With this measure, there will be no more. “
It is not certain that argument is sufficient to convince the public sector. The first representative organization, the CGT, required “10 % minimum”, a retroactivity at 1 er January and an index index on inflation. “We estimate the loss of purchasing power at 10 % or 11 % since 2010, explains Céline Verzeletti, confederal secretary of the CGT, and we continue to lose it.” For the CGT, 3 % or 4 % of Increase in the point, “it would be contempt and provocation”. Force Ouvrière, third union, demanded, Monday, “a revaluation of the index point and a catch -up of the losses suffered since 2000, namely 25 %”, accompanied by various financial measures.
The CFDT, for its part, wanted the increase to be “much more than 3 %”. Mylène Jacquot, secretary general of the public CFDT-Functions, second organization, recalls that, “the more you increase the value of the point, the more it benefits high wages and the more you accentuate the differences”. Admittedly, the CFDT asked for “a significant measure that is seen for everyone”, but, she insists, that should not prevent the “bottom of civil servants] B and C C and C , which are at the minimum wage “.
inflation” strong and sustainable “
In fact, Stanislas Guerini also had to present new measures intended for the less remunerated in category B. Because, since the catch -up granted to category C officials passed under the minimum wage, they had lost their wage advantage. Other improvements are planned, linked to travel or catering costs.
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