Three days of waiting time for civil servants? Agnès Pannier-Runacher “comfortable with the fact that we are seeking to reduce spending”

This is one of the points of the 2025 Budget which risks making France's millions of civil servants cringe. In order to fill a deficit of 60 billion euros, the government intends to extend the deficiency to three days for civil servants, compared to just one currently. A decision with which the Minister of Ecological Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, seems in tune.

“I am comfortable with the fact that we are seeking to reduce expenses linked to sick leave, and we have noted that they have increased in recent years,” she said at the microphone of the Grand Rendez-vous. -you Europe 1/Cnews/Les Echos. For the minister, we must “act on two fronts”, without any form of stigmatization: ensure that “working conditions make it possible to guarantee that people remain healthy in their work, and ensure that what is applied in the private sector can be applied in the public sector.