Question 18310 — higher education

Summary

Mr. Jérôme Buisson alerts the Minister of Higher Education and Research to the problem of university temporary workers. The latter represent more than 60% of the higher teaching and research workforce. Of the number of 167,000 temporary workers working within universities, at least 40,000 are in reality in a precarious situation, with this activity as their main remuneration. The temporary workers ensure currently a quarter of the teaching hours in higher education. And this, while receiving an average of 8,000 euros gross annually. In addition, temporary workers live in a legal vacuum. Lawyers in civil service law highlight the fact that they are neither civil servants, nor really contractual agents, nor even employees covered by the labor code. These are public officials, not subject to the labor code and industrial tribunal and therefore falling under civil service law. The civil service code provides strict protections for civil servants and a general status for contract agents. However, individual contractors are not specifically defined as contractual agents. While an amendment adopted to Law No. 2020-1674 of December 24, 2020 on research programming for the years 2021 to 2030 and relating to various provisions relating to research and higher education have included directly in Article L. 952-1 of the Education Code a principle of monthly pay, a problem of regularity of pay remains. A circular from the General Directorate of Human Resources (DGRH) of July 4, 2022 relating to the recruitment and management of temporary workers in higher education recognizes this problem but downplays it: “The The problem of monthly payment of vacations only arises for a minority of agents. Finally, temporary workers are also concerned by another problem: that of the type of their contracts because they are zero-hour contracts: there is no fixed working time which binds both parties in advance. He therefore asks her how she intends to resolve the various status and payment issues facing her. facing the temporary workers.

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