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The difference between the private sector and the public concerning the number of absences for health reasons, denounced by the Minister of the Civil Service, has decreased significantly in 2023.
It is not yet a return to the pre-Covid situation, but the trend is there: in 2023, the gap between the private sector and the public service concerning the number of absences for health reasons has narrowed , increasing to 1.7 days per person per year on average (to the disadvantage of the public), compared to 2.8 days in 2022, according to the 2024 report on the state of the public service.
A movement which further weakens the words of the Minister of the Civil Service Guillaume Kasbarian who, on October 29 on RTL, denounced “a significant increase in the average number of days of absence per public official, which rose to 14.5 [en 2022, ndlr] whereas a few years ago, there were 8 of us. It was roughly the same private-public thing a few years ago, today we have a real divergence, that is to say that there is a gap that has widened between the public and the private. And so faced with this situation, I cannot not act.” And to then advocate an extension from one to three days of the waiting period during which public officials would not be compensated
