As expected, the rate of strikers at the RATP Friday is such that it is impossible for the management to ensure the famous "minimum service" in case of social movement. However, the Île-de-France region has a performance obligation contract with RATP.
A contract, but no penalty
Concluded in 2015, this contract obliges RATP to provide 50% of its usual traffic during peak hours throughout the network. But this obligation carries no penalty. If the agreement provides for a bonus-malus system depending on whether or not it complies with its traffic commitments, it is neutralized during strikes. It therefore applies only in normal periods, to encourage RATP to improve its quality of service.
But the region is not without a lever to punish the autonomous management of Paris transport. Based on the fact that the traffic was not, or badly, ensured this Friday, the president of the Île-de-France region Valérie Pécresse, who was asking for a guaranteed service at rush hour, is entitled to deprive the RATP of the annual subsidy corresponding to this day of strike. What she has announced to do.
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According to the first estimates of IDF-Mobilités [the organizing authority of transport, ex-Stif, ed], which will be refined after the day of Friday, the strike could thus cost the RATP between 3 and 7 million euros on the 5 billion euros paid each year.