2023-12-28 20:43:31
Promising first steps, even if challenges persist. Some ministries have highlighted their flattering results in the context of the new professional equality index for women/men in the civil service.
For the year 2022, the Quai d’Orsay thus displays a score of 85 out of 100, 10 points higher than the minimum required (75/100), according to results published on its site. On Wednesday, the social ministries reported an identical score (85/100) on the Ministry of Labor website.
Other results expected in early 2024
Under a law adopted in July and an implementing decree published at the beginning of December, state civil service employers with more than 50 employees are required from 2023 to measure differences in remuneration and employment rates. promotion between the men and women who work there. Depending on the gaps observed within them during the previous year, employers obtain a certain number of points (out of a possible maximum of 100).
If their score is lower than 75/100, they have a maximum of three years to reduce the gaps between men and women, failing which a fine of up to 1% of the overall annual gross remuneration of their agents may be imposed. Each employer’s rating must be published on its site no later than September 30 of each year.
Exceptionally, in 2023, the ministries and public administrative establishments (EPA) concerned by this new professional equality index can publish their results for the year 2022 until December 31. Employers who do not publish their rating within the next three days are legally exposed to fines of 45,000 (for EPAs) to 90,000 euros (ministries). But the Ministry of Civil Service “will show flexibility in the time frame for the first publication of the index by administrations, most of which should take place at the beginning of 2024,” he indicated.
Zero points for contract workers
In detail, the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs boasted an optimal score (15/15) on Thursday in terms of equal access to promotions for men and women. “There is nevertheless room for progress” regarding the presence of women in the 10% of the best paid agents in the ministry, recognizes the Quai d’Orsay.
The social ministries, for their part, obtain a zero point in terms of equal pay between male and female contract agents (one of the six components of the index, which however only weighs 10 of the 100 points).
After the civil service in 2023, the professional equality index must be deployed in the two other branches of the public sector (hospital and territorial) in 2024. Already in place for several years in the private sector, the professional equality index the subject of criticism, its real impact on the reduction of gender inequalities being particularly questioned. “The 2,023 index in the private sector already displays an average of 88/100… The scores are excellent due to indicators making existing gaps invisible,” recently deplored the FGF-FO (2nd public sector union) in a communicated.
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