Question 17318 — civil servants and public agents

Summary

Mr. Hubert Ott draws the attention of the Minister of Action and Public Accounts to the fact that the minimum salary of certain public agents is now lower than the interprofessional minimum wage for growth (SMIC). This situation results from the prolonged freezing of the value of the index point, which serves as a basis for calculating the salaries of civil servants, while the SMIC continues to be regularly revalued to take into account inflation. Many early career levels are affected, particularly in category C, but also in categories B and A. To prevent a public official from being paid below the minimum wage, the State pays differential compensation intended to compensate for this gap. This system, however, presents a structural defect: it is not part of the basic salary, takes into account neither grade nor seniority and results in a reduction in pay scales. Thus, public agents with several years, or even several decades, of seniority can find themselves paid at the same level as a newly recruited agent. The number of agents affected by this corrective mechanism is already significant and continues to increase with each increase in the minimum wage. This situation fuels a feeling of downgrading among public officials and weakens the attractiveness of the civil service, in particular for categories B and C, at a time when many public employers are already struggling to recruit permanent agents and where the use of contract agents, less constrained by these scales, tends to develop. Also, he asks what measures the Government intends to take to initiate in-depth reflection on the revaluation of the index scales and on the evolution of the value of the index point, in order to sustainably guarantee a basic salary above the SMIC and to preserve the attractiveness and statutory coherence of the civil service.

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