The executive reacts two days after two unions launched calls for a strike on the occasion of the Paris-2024 Olympics.
the Minister of the Civil Service, Stanislas Guerini, assured Saturday March 9 on franceinfo that an exceptional bonus will be paid to all public employees “directly involved” in the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games.
“There will be a bonus system which is very consistent for all agents who are on the ground of 500, 1,000, 1,500 euros with an additional particular system for the security forces who will be particularly mobilized,” declared Stanislas Guerini.
The Interior Ministry has already promised up to 1,900 euros in bonuses for the police officers and gendarmes concerned.
Stanislas Guerini also announced that 10,000 universal service employment vouchers (Cesu) would be paid to civil servants mobilized during the Olympics, up to 200 euros per child as a general rule and 350 euros per child for single-parent families.
“We are going to set up nursery places, reserve 1,000 places in holiday centers to be able to further help families who send children to camp,” he also declared.
The minister refuted any lack of dialogue on "social preparation" for the Games, as accused by the CGT, whose general secretary Sophie Binet demanded "immediate measures" from the executive on Thursday.
“We are seriously moving forward,” said the Minister of the Civil Service who will meet the unions on Tuesday, as part of “monthly meetings at interministerial level”.
“May this be a moment of success for the nation”
“This moment (the Olympics) must be a moment of success for the nation,” insisted the minister.
“I meet a lot of public officials, there is not one who announced to me their intention to strike” during the event, he assured.
On Thursday, the general secretary of the CGT Sophie Binet affirmed that the union would file strike notices in April in the three branches of the civil service – State, territorial, hospital – for the period covering the Paris-2024 Olympics.
A few hours after this announcement from the first public sector union, the second (FO) followed suit by announcing a strike notice running from March 19, the day of an inter-union mobilization for the salaries of public agents, to September 8.
The CFDT (3rd union) and the Unsa (4th) have, conversely, indicated that they are not calling at this stage for mobilization in the public service during the two sporting events.
With AFP and Reuters
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