8,000 euros for those who commit to staying six years in Ile-de-France.
The promise is made by the prison administration, which has opened a regional competition with 350 positions.
A first.
"The problem is not to recruit but to retain", advances Stéphane Bredin, director of the prison administration.
Bonus of 10,000 euros, again, granted by the government for those who exercise a public service mission in Seine-Saint-Denis for at least five years.
The decree of October 24 has just specified the professions concerned: teachers, prefecture agents, clerks, educators of the judicial protection of young people, firefighters ...
In the police, an Ile-de-France peacekeeper competition has already existed for nearly ten years.
The carrot: 9,000 euros, paid in several installments over ten years.
Is it enough for the region to keep its officials without resorting to more muscular methods such as the freezing of transfers?
If the Ile-de-France is often cited as an example for the experience we get there, in terms of the cost of living, that's something else.
The temptation to look elsewhere is mainly linked to prohibitive rents, including for officials who earn more than the minimum wage.
The proof, again, on the rental sites, at the end of November: 700 euros for a 14 square meters (m2) in the Goutte-d'Or in Paris (18th century), 650 euros for a 13 m² in Montmorency (Val- d'Oise)… In Montpellier for 610 euros, you can visit a 36m², and in Nantes, a 40m² for 724 euros.
"With our salary, finding accommodation in the Paris region is an ordeal"
Whether they are caregivers, firefighters, teachers ... finding decent accommodation in Ile-de-France is often a dream.
We have met these officials who all express this difficulty in making ends meet.
Sébastien, 35, has been a peacekeeper in Paris for fifteen years.
The only solution the man from Bordeaux has found is… sharing a flat with colleagues.
“The work here is super interesting, but life is stressful.
And relations with the public, which sees us only as racists or violent, it weighs.
Nothing is holding me back.
"
Others have already chosen, mainly for financial reasons, to leave the region.
Like Mélanie, 29, a prison supervisor, who claims to “live again” since she left Bois-d'Arcy (Yvelines) for Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin).
"With our salary, finding accommodation in the Paris region is a nightmare," she says.
The supervisor receives 1,750 euros net, but works a lot of overtime.
She too had opted for a roommate.
“In Strasbourg I was able to settle down with my partner.
We have a 130 m2 house with a large garden, for 800 euros in rent, ”she relishes.
Can the Ségur de la Santé make a difference?
However, there are plenty of incentives: for example, a residence allowance of up to 3% exists for health workers, police officers and teachers in the Ile-de-France region.
The National Education also pays an "installation bonus of 2000 euros to new recruits assigned to Ile-de-France, as for the Lille academy, and installation assistance of 900 euros for the cost of the move" , details Antoine Tardy, representative of Snes.
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Nurses in Ile-de-France, who receive 78 euros gross per month as an "attractiveness bonus", will see their salary increase by 183 euros from December, a consequence of the Ségur de la Santé.
Other help exists, such as the housing made available by the Ile-de-France regional council, on its social housing contingent, for police officers and prison supervisors.
Antoine, professor in Houilles (Yvelines), was thus able to benefit from social housing, as a State agent in Ile-de-France.
He feels lucky to have only waited eight months.
He pays 500 euros in rent, instead of 700 previously.
A substantial saving for his salary of 1,700 euros.
Assistance with housing, transport ...
Among firefighters in the greater Parisian suburbs, at the expense of the departments, efforts are made for real estate loans or to offer official housing.
Sdis 91 (Essonne) has 137 barracks housing allotted to firefighters, in a department which has nearly a thousand professional firefighters.
"It is especially the new recruits and the youngest or lower ranks who have this kind of need, so there is a turnover", specifies an officer.
For its part, the department recalls that it "also has social housing and places firefighters there as a priority".
In the police, the loyalty bonus, no more than the promises of faster advancement, does not seem to stop departures.
According to the Alliance police union, “between 500 and 700 peacekeepers leave Ile-de-France each year, while only a fortnight takes the opposite route.
“Figures confirmed by the ministry's transfer table.
"These are experienced people who are leaving, they are replaced by students who have just left school," said Yvan Assioma, national secretary of the police union Alliance Ile-de-France.
But not all of these recruits come with a smile on their face.
In the opinion of several police trainers, “those who ask for Ile-de-France are to join a spouse or because their whole family lives in the region.
And it is rare.
“The 9,000 euros are not enough to close the gap in rental prices.
And the other advancement bonuses, up to 1,800 euros per year as the seniority increases, due to an activity considered difficult, since extended to other provincial agglomerations, do not constitute a decisive asset.
Would free transport be an additional asset to sedentary officials from the provinces?
Staying in sensitive neighborhoods, "that's how teachers have used their health"
It will undoubtedly be necessary to wait several years to measure the effect of these new loyalty bonuses, which those concerned view with perplexity.
“I'm afraid that doesn't change anything, sweeps a high school teacher in Seine-Saint-Denis.
Fifteen years ago, there were measures of this type, the more we stayed in sensitive neighborhoods, the more points we gained, that's how teachers used their health in difficult areas with the hope of leaving in the provinces, but they often cracked before.
She has still been in office for twenty years.
The new prison guards who will take up their duties at the Seine-Saint-Denis remand center, in Villepinte, may find their account there.
They will indeed be able to receive the two bonuses, that of the prison administration, and that of 10,000 euros allocated to the agents of 93.
"The difficulty is not to recruit but to retain"
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Stéphane Bredin, director of the prison administration, discusses the bonus of 8,000 euros that will be granted to new supervisors who commit to six years in Ile-de-France.
Why did you decide to create a bonus of 8,000 euros for future agents who undertake to stay six years in Ile-de-France?
In Ile-de-France, the difficulty is not to recruit, but to build loyalty over time, to break with the turnover of large establishments in the Ile-de-France region.
This is the first time that we have organized a local competition in the Ile-de-France region.
We tested these competitions on a smaller scale in Lyon, Marseille and Normandy and it worked.
Here it is about 350 positions.
How is staff turnover a handicap in prisons?
For each mobility campaign, on average, 10% of the workforce leaves Ile-de-France, or even more.
In Osny (Val-d'Oise), 30% of the staff is replaced over one year.
If we concentrate the school leavers in the same establishments, the officers spend their time accompanying their first steps, it is an endless job, which exhausts the supervision in more difficult establishments than elsewhere
(Editor's note: 113% occupancy on average in remand prisons in Ile-de-France, 164% in Villepinte and 105% in the rest of the country)
.
However, as with the police, or national education, it is paradoxical to concentrate school leavers in positions where more experienced personnel are needed.
What are the attractive regions?
Overseas and Hauts-de-France, a region from which a large number of candidates come.
Since the closure of the mines, generations of supervisors have come from Hauts-de-France.
On the other hand, the PACA region and Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes suffer from a lack of attractiveness quite comparable to Ile-de-France.
8000 euros is too little to buy a home ...
No measure is enough to guarantee 100% loyalty, but 4000 euros, in the first month of taking office
(1000 euros the 3rd year and 3000 euros the fifth)
is a big installation bonus.
This is almost equivalent to two months' salary.
One measure does not exclude others.
For example, regions have voted for free public transport for prison officers, which is not negligible.
For housing, from the training school, we go out to meet future Ile-de-France agents to support them, some apartments and a hostel exist in the inner suburbs.
We are aware of the difficulty, which is increased for those who come from far away and who must be supported.
Last year, dozens of supervisors from Mayotte chose the Health prison, for example.
Can this bonus be cumulative with the 10,000 euros offered in Seine-Saint-Denis, if a new supervisor chooses Villepinte remand center?
Yes, up to 15,000 euros.