- On its website, the CGT of the Toulouse University Hospital explains that it "discovered" that the HRD was going to receive 1,500 euros in premiums, while caregivers mobilized in the face of the coronavirus epidemic will have "only 500 euros".
- In the departments least affected by Covid-19, a government decree limits the increase in premiums to "a ceiling of 40% of the establishment's staff".
- "Of the 4,432 CHU staff [who will receive 1,500 euros], 78.5% are caregivers," defends the director of the Toulouse CHU. In Nantes too, the premium discrepancies are causing tension.
"A shame", a "real scandal". On its site, the CGT of Toulouse CHU does not have strong enough words to denounce the differences in premium between management and caregivers. On June 15, the union wrote in an article: “We discovered today that the HRD, the assistant HRD and the director of care were going to receive 1,500 euros… While some caregivers who took care of Covid patients, many ASH (hospital services agent) and highly mobilized technical staff during the period will only have 500 euros. "
For the CGT of the Toulouse CHU, this is in addition to the “very comfortable salaries and very large bonuses each year” that management receives. The union demands that all CHU staff be able to receive the bonus of 1,500 euros and defends a 300 euros increase in wages.
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While the controversy over premiums has been going on for several days, the management of the Toulouse University Hospital gave a press conference on Wednesday, June 17. She confirmed that five members of management will receive a bonus of 1,500 euros and explained why all the staff will not touch her. Thus, at the Toulouse University Hospital, out of the 15,350 staff, 12,949 can benefit from a bonus. 8,500 will receive the bonus of 500 euros and 4,432 people will be able to collect 1,500 euros.
As a reminder, this “exceptional” bonus was announced by Emmanuel Macron during his televised address on March 25. This aid was intended for "all healthcare staff, like all civil servants mobilized"and it had to “financially support [the] recognition” of the country. A decree of May 14 set the conditions: you must have held office for at least 30 days "including teleworking, between March 1 and April 30".
The decree also cuts France in two. Thus, in the departments most affected by the epidemic, professionals in public health establishments will receive 1,500 euros, mainly in the Grand-Est, Hauts-de-France, Ile-de-France. For establishments in less tense areas, the premium drops to 500 euros. An exception was made, however, for 117 hospitals that were mobilized during the crisis. The director of the establishment may then choose to increase the amount of the bonus to 1,500 euros "for the services or agents involved in the care of patients contaminated by the Covid-19 virus or mobilized by the exceptional circumstances of exercise" , indicates a press release from service-public.fr.
But beware, another detail, a decree of June 8 specifies that this increase is limited to "a ceiling of 40% of the establishment's staff". "With this decree, we are given austerity on what is thanks for the commitment of caregivers, denounces Julien Terrié, secretary general of the CGT of CHU Toulouse, joined by 20 Minutes . We are in a total gas plant. "
It is now up to hospitals to imagine criteria to determine who is entitled or not to the bonus. “How to distribute it?” Asked Marc Penaud, director general of the Toulouse University Hospital, at a press conference. We conducted consultations. We have established criteria. " What are they ? They are based on the presence of clinical service staff: having "welcomed Covid + patients for more than 45 days of hospitalization, subject to an effective service time in this service of 38:30", details a document from the hospital transmitted to journalists. “We did not want it to be like that, regrets Sandra Ibos, secretary general of FO. We want everyone to have the bonus, because all the players were involved in the hospital reorganization. "
Marc Penaud justifies his choices: “I wanted to recognize the work of five people from the management, because they were very available and worked hard. "And to detail:" Of these 4,432 CHU staff [who will receive 1,500 euros], 78.5% are caregivers, 15% technical staff and 6.5% administrative staff. Management represents 0.01%. There is no management on one side and doctors on the other. It is legitimate that there is a community of struggle, but also a community of recognition. "
Indefensible, for Julien Terrié of the CGT: “It is absolutely scandalous that five hospital directors have this bonus. They have special bonus schemes, between 15,000 and 30,000 euros annually. We don't have the same regime. We are even more angry. You have to give 1,500 to everyone. Many worked weekends and nights. "" This bonus is a shame, estimates, for his part, Vincent Bounes, director of Samu 31. We would have done better to give 1,000 euros to everyone. The members of the management were there every day and these are not the hospital's biggest salaries. They did not steal it. "
The Toulouse University Hospital is not the only hospital where this debate exacerbates tensions. In Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), the CGT also requests that all staff be able to collect the bonus of 1,500 euros. "We don't have to divide people, everyone participated in this crisis", defends Olivier Terrien, secretary general of the CGT. By email, the CHU replied that "it was decided to go to the maximum of regulatory possibilities and to pay a bonus of 1,500 euros to 40% of the workforce, or more than 4,000 people". Of the 12,529 professionals in the establishment.
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