Since the Minister of the Public Service, Guillaume Kasbarian, announced on October 27 his desire to tighten the compensation system for civil servants’ sick leave, the question has plagued him: “What will I do if I get sick? » As the government is expected to introduce its reform through amendments to the 2025 Finance Bill during the resumption of budget debates in the National Assembly on Tuesday, November 5, Christel (those cited by name requested anonymity) , A school teacher in Bouches-du-Rhône, does her calculations.
During the 2023-2024 school year, the 48-year-old teacher contracted infectious mononucleosis, with which she worked until a fever forced her to stay home. “They stopped me two days before the holidays, I was sick during the two weeks of school holidays, then I came back and had to stop again four days because I caught pneumonia”explains.
His two stops in one month cost him two days of waiting, according to the current regime, or about 150 euros. With three days of waiting for a stoppage and then compensation reduced to 90% of his salary, as the Government wanted, his remuneration of 2,200 euros would have been reduced by almost 400 euros. “Being sick would have prevented me from finishing the month”she blurted out, “upset” by measurement.
Far from the “scourge” denounced by the government
The government project, presented in response to a “absenteeism” public officials, the public service union organizations rebelled, unanimously denouncing a measure “scandalous”. Among teachers, who represent almost a fifth of civil servants, it has the effect of a bomb. “It has been a long time since we have received so many spontaneous messages from colleagues who express, sometimes violently, their anger and feeling of injustice in the face of this measure that attacks our sense of public service.”testifies Sophie Vénétitay, president of the first secondary school union, the SNES-FSU.
Among the teachers, the words shocked as much as the severity of the political measure. “Absenteeism, we know what it is, we fill out files for students who practice it by repeatedly missing classescriticizes Géraldine Duboz, a history and geography teacher at a secondary school in eastern France. To suggest that an absent teacher or official is in the same state of mind is unbearable. »
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