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At the call of seven unions, a major mobilization is organized in the public sector this Thursday to protest against the government's proposals to combat absenteeism and several comments from their minister, Guillaume Kasbarian. Nearly one in two schools could be closed.
Whether or not the government falls this Wednesday, December 4, their anger will always be there. If the 5.7 million civil servants and contract workers who make up the public service are called to strike and demonstrate, this Thursday, December 5, by seven of the eight main unions which represent them, it is not only because of the passage of one to three days of waiting time in the event of sick leave that Michel Barnier's government wanted to impose on them in its 2025 budget proposal. Not only, either, because of the drop to 90% in compensation for sick leave. question, provided for in the same finance bill, the two measures combined being supposed to bring in 1.2 billion euros. Not only, finally, because the outgoing Minister of the Civil Service, Guillaume Kasbarian,
