Some “230,000” civil servants will see their salaries very slightly increase on November 1, we learned this Friday, as part of an increase in the minimum wage announced by Prime Minister Michel Barnier at the beginning of October.
A difference of a few cents. The salaries of “around 230,000” public agents will be very slightly increased on November 1 to prevent them from being paid below the minimum wage, the administration said this Friday.
This measure follows the general policy speech at the beginning of October by Prime Minister Michel Barnier, announcing an increase in the minimum wage of 2% on November 1, which will bring it to 1,801.8 euros gross monthly. However, the minimum salary (minimum salary) for civil servants, set at 1,801.74 euros, is today 6 euro cents lower than the future amount of the minimum wage.
6 cents for civil servants on minimum wage
Public employees cannot be paid below the minimum wage, the General Directorate of Administration and Civil Service (DGAFP) therefore indicated to the unions on Thursday evening that a “differential compensation” (bonus) of 6 cents would be paid on the 1st november.
This revaluation will concern “around 230,000 agents”, out of the 5.7 million in the civil service, said the DGAFP. It constitutes “the minimum application of regulatory texts”, noted Friday the Unsa-public service (4th public service union) on its site, calling for an “immediate” increase in the value of the index point, the mechanism used to calculate the base salary of civil servants.
In a press release, the CGT Civil Service described the increase as “derisory” and considered that it could “only be received as a mark of contempt and provocation by the staff concerned”.
“You had to dare”
While the unions are demanding in unison a general increase in wages, as the government had agreed to in 2022 (+3.5%) and 2023 (1.5%), the CGT ruled that the payment of a bonus of 6 cents “does not respond in any way to the salary emergency”.
Second union of civil servants, behind the CGT, Force Ouvrière asserted in a press release that “we had to dare”. By choosing to close the gap with the minimum wage via a bonus rather than an increase in the basic salary, “the number one boss of the country, the employer State”, proceeded “in the worst way”, regretted FO.
“How can we then talk about the attractiveness of public employment, the loyalty of civil servants?”, the union pretended to wonder, before concluding that “civil servants and public agents are worth more than 0.06 euros “.
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