Why France is always recruiting more civil servants

by time news

2024-04-13 09:54:55

About Louise Darbon

Published yesterday at 6:46 p.m., Updated 2 hours ago

In 2022, public employment increased by 0.3% with 17,300 more civil servants than in 2021, according to the latest figures from INSEE. Frederic Scheiber / Hanslucas

INVESTIGATION – Overadministration, absenteeism, non-compliance with the 35-hour week… The civil service still suffers from a lack of productivity. And yet continues to hire.

Stanislas Guerini threw a big stone into the pond. Tuesday April 9, the Minister of the Civil Service declared that he wanted « lift the taboo of dismissal in the public service ». If he assures that this is not a question of calling into question the sacrosanct guarantee of employment, the minister assumes his desire to reform a status deemed untouchable. All this, to improve efficiency, at a time when 70% of French people believe that public services have deteriorated in recent years according to the latest Odoxa Backbone Consulting survey for Le Figaro. And this, even though the number of civil servants has continued to increase since the 1990s. In 2022 again, public employment increased by 0.3%, with 17,300 more civil servants than in 2021, revealed the ‘Insee this Friday. And for 2023, INSEE even estimates that there could be 60,000 additional civil servants.

“Degrease the mammoth”

But no « mammoth degreasing » in sight, despite the worrying deterioration of public finances, with a…

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