Often presented as the champions of absenteeism, civil servants are not more absent than private employees.
Published as an appendix to the 2020 draft budget, the latest data available for all three public services (State, hospital and regional) show that 3.9% of civil servants, taken as a whole, had had a sick leave. of at least one day in 2018. This is the same figure, neither more nor less, than employees in the private sector.
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If the statistics show a virtual stagnation over three years, they mainly reflect the start of a downturn that seems to be confirmed in 2019, at least for State officials, the only ones for whom the data are available.
Last year, the General Directorate of Administration (DGAFP) recorded 920,000 days of absence, against 990,000 in 2018. That is a delta of 70,000 days that the Ministry of the Civil Service attributes to the return of the waiting day.
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