The purchasing power of around 1.2 million civil servants will increase from 40 to 100 euros net per month. On Tuesday, the Minister of Transformation and the Public Service Amélie de Montchalin announced that the salary increase will concern category C public service employees, those closest to the minimum wage.
This increase compensates for the fact that “ the index point will not increase », Specified the Minister on RMC and BFMTV. “To increase it by 1%, it costs 2 billion euros to public finances”, she justified, preferring an “identical but extremely targeted envelope” on a category of civil servants. “It concerns 1.2 million agents in the three public functions (State, territorial and hospital). I use every euro of public money to fill the equality deficit to ensure that we do not sprinkle, electoralism. “
Gender inequalities in wages
The Minister receives Tuesday the trade unions of 5.5 million civil servants on the occasion of a “salary meeting” they have been demanding for several months. “We will also raise the salaries of contract workers and ensure that they are all above the minimum wage. We will ensure that there are a lot of promotions, we will launch an equality barometer as in the private sector. Since 2017, we have had a coherent salary policy, ”assured Amélie de Montchalin.
“We were behind in trades such as teachers, law enforcement, caregivers,” she admitted. There are also inequalities within the public service on low wages, between Paris and the province, men and women. “” I’m targeting stocks. We are in the process of ensuring that from January 1, 2022 all State agents will have 15 euros per month on their payroll to help them pay their mutual, she recalled. Then all civil servants, between 2024 and 2026, will be responsible for 50% of their mutual health insurance. “