While Emmanuel Macron will meet the social partners at the Élysée Palace to discuss current issues, discussions will also take place on rue de Grenelle.
This Tuesday, July 6, the Minister in charge of Transformation and the Public Service, Amélie de Montchalin, will receive social organizations and representatives of public employers, on the occasion of a "
conference on salary perspectives in the public service
" .
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The event will begin at 9:30 am at the ministry, in the 7th arrondissement. A press point is expected around 1 pm: “
New purchasing power measures for public officials
” are mentioned by the minister's teams in a
press
release.
For their part, the trade unions maintain that a general increase in wages is essential. A measure on which the government seems reluctant, preferring targeted actions. Solidaires function publique lodged a strike notice from July 1 to 31, denouncing the “
attacks on the civil service
”: “
It has already been indicated that the thaw of the index point and no general measure has been taken. were planned for 2021. And this, even as the purchasing power of public officials (es) decreases continuously,
“regrets the union in a press release.
The CGT, the FSU, Solidaires and the Autonomous Federation published, in mid-June, a petition calling for the “
thawing of the value of the index point
” to counter “considerable
losses of purchasing power for civil servants. public
”. At this point, the text is signed by some 6,300 people. Will the social partners be satisfied with the announcements made at the end of the meeting this morning? Verdict in the middle of the day.
