2023-09-19 15:04:33
Whether in the private or public sector, job offers, especially when they require certain skills, are difficult to fill… and this is particularly true for communities, explains the Strasbourg executive. “The Eurométropole house”, notes Valentin Rabot, vice-president in charge of human resources policy, attracts less. It is no longer what it once was and is experiencing recruitment difficulties despite the 200 professions in the city’s services. Skills shortage, competition between different job offers, salary competition, lack of inclusiveness, including HR. Also, the community decided to go further to reformat its approach and the management of working time. With, at the head of the gondola, the experiment of moving to a four-day week. A possibility, on a voluntary basis, proposed according to the constraints of the services.
A necessary development, a real change, “like everywhere in society, made obligatory by a new relationship with work, to work differently”, underlines Syamak Agha Babaei, vice-president of the Eurométropole but also first deputy to the City of Strasbourg. Municipality which alone represents 60% of the 7,000 agents in the Eurometropolis. “We must adapt to the expectations of our audiences, young people in particular,” underlines the elected official. We also need to go even further in analyzing the arduousness of certain workstations, and think about being more inclusive as well. » In this sense precisely, the elected official announced the formation of an internal commission made up of elected officials, agents and feminist associations, to study the possibility of menstrual leave.
Making “the Eurométropole house” more attractive
Also, to make “the Eurométropole house” more attractive, working time, which remains 1,607 hours worked per year as provided for by law, will be managed differently. With the common thread, the question of priorities: is it “the number of hours worked or the accomplishment of a mission?” » which prevails, asks the executive.
Facilitate management, take more into account the arduousness of a position… In fact, this will result in a reduction in work for the 390 Atsem in the Strasbourg area with a move to 32 hours per week. A reduction which is also added to the four-day week which they may already have. For all agents, goodbye, for volunteers always, of having to badge. Priority is given to a certain autonomy in the management of one’s working time but above all “to the reduction of personnel management and control, tasks which mobilize many hours of work and staff”, recognizes Valentin Rabot.
The four-day week, a system requested by 37% of French communities, notes Vincent Rabot, only tested until now in the Lyon metropolis alone since September, should therefore be approved at the next assembly of the Strasbourg Eurometropole for an update in place at the beginning of 2024. Still, it could remain a very discreet measure. There is currently no precise data on the number of volunteers in the Eurometropolis, without taking into account the real interest and feasibility in an already busy public service. “35 hours reduced to four days is approximately 8 hours 45 minutes of work per day,” explains Valentin Rabot. Juggling personal time and work time is a difficult balance. This is not always compatible with certain personal obligations, such as for single people with children,” explains the director. A balance that is just as difficult to find for department heads who will have to decide in the future whether or not this is possible in their department, depending on the missions to be accomplished. While waiting for the big leap, there is still work to be done for the Strasbourg public authorities.
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