The rate of absenteeism of public sector agents was at the heart of the debates during the last Paris Council, Friday October 11, 2024. Thus, according to TF1, while in France, the rate of absenteeism in the private sector is in average of 11.6 days per year, it is 14.5 days on average in the public service nationally. But according to the unique social report from Paris town hall, city agents are absent on average 39.6 days per year.
According to Pierre-Yves Bournazel, co-president of the group “Union Capitale – Rally of Republicans, Centrists, Progressives, Ecologists and Independents” and elected representative of the 18th arrondissement, whose figures were taken by the news channel, to the management service of human resources, which has 400 agents, 135 are absent per day. All the absences of agents at Paris town hall would cost Parisian taxpayers 250 million euros per year. At the same time, the debt of the City of Paris reached 8.2 billion euros in 2023 and is expected to increase to 8.8 billion in 2024. Also, in 2022, the Paris town hall took the decision to increase of 52% the property tax, increasing the tax rate from 13.5% to 20.5%.
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According to Actu.fr, to justify this rate of absenteeism, Olivia Polski, assistant in charge of human resources, described “a sign of vitality and solidarity”. The number of paternity leaves has increased. While they were 74.4% in 2020, 100% of spouses are now taking advantage of the system. Also, adoption leave has doubled in four years, going from 220 days in 2020 (for five agents concerned) to 443 days in 2023 (for four agents). Finally, solidarity leave saw a very sharp increase, going from 35 days for three agents in 2022 to 341 days for four civil servants in 2023.
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