Question 8460 — agricultural education

Summary

The commitment of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food to the recognition of the profession of director of a local public agricultural education and training establishment (EPLEFPA), with regard to its specificities and those, more generally, of technical agricultural education, is constant. The ministry is aware of the central and essential place of EPLEFPA directors in running establishments agricultural education which are made up of several centers (high schools, apprentice training centers, training centers for agricultural promotion) and staff of different statuses. They are the pilots of a teaching system serving the public policies supported by the ministry. Finally, in addition to their mission of training and social integration, the legislator has entrusted these establishments with skills in matters of of experimentation, territorial animation and international cooperation which make them important players in local life. An EPLEFPA director is thus a manager who has a large budget, supervises staff of different statuses, welcomes a wide variety of audiences and has high-level contacts both within the State and with representatives of regional councils, local elected officials and professionals. THE previous Government had decided to request the creation of a body status for the directors of EPLEFPA. This request received an unfavorable opinion from the Minister responsible for action and public accounts in July 2017. The Ministry responsible for the public service recalled that the specificities indicated above of the profession of director of EPLEFPA justify that this profession is exercised within the framework of an employment status, and not a body status, with regard to the position of the Council of State responsible for examining draft statutory decrees and judging their legality. Moreover, this status has not, until now, hindered the achievement of the objective of parity of treatment with counterpart national education personnel set out in Article L. 811-4 of the Rural and Maritime Fisheries Code. Thus, and without there being any need to resort to the creation of a new status of ministerial body, the revaluation of the remuneration scale of the directors of EPLEFPA, equivalent to that which benefited the management personnel reporting to the Ministry of National Education on the occasion of the implementation of the protocol relating to "professional paths, careers and remuneration", constitutes one of the aspects of the work to modernize the employment status, initiated almost a year ago, in consultation with the ministry's social partners. The trade union organizations representing EPLEFPA management staff were received by the Minister of Agriculture and Food, upon taking office, to once again bring forward the request for the creation of a body status. The minister did not wish to accede to a request which would not have been successful in a context rather marked by mergers of bodies. Services of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food are working to improve the employment status of directors so that it best meets their expectations. At the request of trade union organizations (SNETAP, UNSA, FO, French Democratic Labor Confederation), technical work was initiated with the Ministry of Civil Service and is the subject of regular working groups. This work includes a component relating to the diversification of the recruitment pool in EPLEFPA management jobs and the securing of professional paths open to directors, between bodies and jobs in the public service, through the implementation of the various bridges organized by existing texts. Furthermore, to support staff in this normative change and alleviate their concerns about the management of their career, a management charter is in place. development course. It covers both initial and continuing training systems as well as the management of specific situations. This adaptation of employment status is more likely to succeed than the creation of an interministerial body with ministerial management of management personnel requested by the inter-union. Indeed, this option would require, in advance, the support of the Ministry of National Education even before be able to assess its feasibility. In addition, and above all, by opening EPLEFPA management jobs to the more than 14,000 members of the management staff of this ministry, the all-encompassing nature of the new interministerial body would have the effect of denying the specificities of the profession of EPLEFPA director. The professions of high school director at the Ministry of National Education and director of EPLEFPA at the Ministry of Agriculture and food are very different due to the missions assigned by the legislative provisions to agricultural education and the very constitution of the establishments for which they are responsible, the EPLEFPA being made up of several constituent centers (farms, apprentice training centers, professional training and agricultural promotion centers, technological workshops). In a very constrained budgetary context, it appears very risky to further delay the completion of a statutory revision project which has the support of some of the social partners and which is already being examined by the services of the ministry responsible for the civil service and the budget. Improving the employment status of directors is one of the priorities of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food so that agricultural education attracts directors motivated and competent, essential to meet the needs of young people and rural areas.

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