The Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer committed Monday to conduct a "thorough reflection on the remuneration of teachers."

Monday, on the eve of a meeting with unions dedicated to pension reform, the Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer committed Monday, during a visit to Besancon, to conduct a "thorough reflection on the remuneration of teachers ".

"Our goal, (...) is that, around 2025, will start the pension reform, it is a fair system for teachers as for the rest of France," he said , saying he would receive the unions on Tuesday, along with High Commissioner Jean-Paul Delevoye.

"A message of support and gratitude"

"This will allow us to have a thorough reflection on compensation but also on our vision of human resources" a department that has nearly a million officials, he continued to the press. Unions fear that teachers, who receive low bonuses from other public service executives, will be penalized by the reform, which provides for a career-based retirement and no longer for the last six months. 'activity.

Asked also about the evolution of the status of school principals - debate revived by the suicide of a director in Seine-Saint-Denis - Jean-Michel Blanquer, who visited a primary school in a deprived neighborhood of Besançon, wished to "reach a consensus on this issue" with the trade unions. "My message to the principals is always the same, it is a message of support and gratitude from all over the country," he said, but "also a message of progress". "We certainly have to change this mission," he insisted.