A reform of the “planning”, the system of short contracts in the company, will have to succeed on December 31 at the latest.
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Does Radio France “planning” live its last weeks? Questioning under pressure from young journalists gathered in a collective to denounce the perverse effects, this organization of replacements in local and national editorials of Radio France entered the overhaul. This must be completed at the end of the year, for an application in January 2023, announces the management of Radio France.
set up to ensure the replacement of the absent (on the occasion of a vacation, or sick leave) in the 44 local stations in France Bleu and in Paris, the “planning” has long been considered an opportunity, for Young journalists, to make their professional start before being hired. Over time, however, the constraints linked to it (extreme mobility on the territory, isolation, very heavy workloads), were increasingly lived, when they did not give rise to real drifts. An ISAST cabinet expertise on psychosocial risks linked to the organization of precarious work within the France Bleu network, unveiled in December, had also uncovered “illegal working conditions” – as well as Le Monde L ‘had indicated. “Some articles have done us a lot of trouble,” we recognize at Radio France.
a two-step reform
The system reform is done in two stages. A first train of measures with immediate effect was announced at the end of September, which aims to improve working conditions. The editors have been recalled certain rules, such as respect for the rights to RTT, or the prohibition to systematically affect replacements for weekends, evenings and holidays. The creation of a “freelance referent”, that is, an interlocutor with whom to exchange any difficulties, is hailed by the representatives of the precarious people. Other measures are supposed to follow, such as the revaluation of the price of the lead or the “housing scale”, intended to take into account the cost of rentals in tourist cities.
A second phase, which must tackle the very foundations of the system, opened this week with the consultation of journalism schools, who send Radio France to be procules Émoulus Émoulus each year. “Without making any generalities, we note that the schedule no longer represents for them an absolute form of grail,” explains Pascal Guénée, director of the IPJ (Practical Institute of Journalism) and president of the Conference of Journalism Schools (CEJ) . While battalions of journalists have, for years, crisscrossed France according to contracts but at the risk of their privacy, the new generations question the sacrifices they are called to consent.
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