The time has passed for the planer.
The presidential promise to cut the civil service of some 120,000 officials - 50,000 for the state and 70,000 in the territorial - by the end of the five-year term has been shelved for a long time.
From the summer of 2019, it was no longer a question of 85,000 redundancies, and the balance finally turned positive with the creation last year of 5,350 full-time equivalent positions.
For 2021, it is a stability of the workforce that is expected, but it is clear that no savings can be expected on the public wage bill by 2022.
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The context obviously played a role.
First of all, the “yellow vests” crisis, which reflected the strong demand from the French for a strengthening of public services, especially in the territories.
The health crisis then, by making it impossible to reduce the number of staff in hospitals.
But not only.
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The stated goal of the reform of the transformation of the civil service was not
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