One weekend out of two and one Wednesday recovered on two: an experimentation of the new hourly cycles, long claimed by the unions, is programmed "in the days to come" to improve the "well-being" of the policemen, announced Thursday Laurent Nuñez.
"This is an extremely important job"
"We are going to make sure that (the police) can have a weekend on two, meet up with their families at home, sometimes for three days, and allow them to recover every second Wednesday," said the secretary of state. Inside on LCI. According to the current cycles, the police only benefit from one weekend out of six and have their other days off in the middle of the week.
These new cycles will be tested "in about fifty departments, about 170 departments or units, and it will involve 3,000 civil servants for four months for generalization", has developed Laurent Nuñez. "This is an extremely important project to improve the well-being of the police," he said, while 47 police officers have committed suicide since the beginning of the year. According to union sources, the experiment should start on 15 September for police officers in the provinces and on 1 October for officials from the Paris police headquarters. The Technical Committee of the Ministry of the Interior (MLC) is scheduled to meet next week to validate this schedule.
Longer holidays in return
"We are archie for this experimentation, which is going in the right direction, but we will be vigilant on the return of experience, to see if it works, if it corresponds to the needs of the police," commented AFP Fabien Vanhemelryck, Secretary General of Alliance, one of the two main peacekeeper unions. In exchange for these new cycles, "the vacations will be longer, at least three hours" or for a period of 11 or 12 hours, said the unionist.
"We are reserved on this point.The night shifts of 12 hours, it scares us," said his side Yves Lefebvre general secretary unit SGP-Police Union. These negotiations are based on the memorandum of understanding signed in December between the Ministry of the Interior and the unions that demanded "a return on investment" after more than a month of mobilization of "yellow vests". This protocol also provides for a salary increase in several tranches to reach 120 to 150 euros more net per month on average from 2020 and the payment of millions of overtime not recovered and not compensated.
Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said Wednesday "wish" that the payment of these extra hours be carried out "at the end of this year for a first part".