For the CGT, the counterproposal had a little difficulty passing. To its agents who demanded that the value of meal vouchers be revalued in the face of inflation, the Nice Côte d’Azur metropolis instead offered, among other things, “information and awareness workshops on the management of the budget of households,” according to the union. Two sessions are offered to them, one in November and one in December.
“We were asking to go from 9 euros to 13 euros. It’s not nothing. But the idea was to give the agents a helping hand in a very complicated moment. It’s one thing to be told that it’s not possible. That we are offered coaching instead to learn how to manage our money is much more difficult to hear,” reaffirmed Hugues Jeffredo on Friday afternoon at 20 minutes. The general secretary of the CGT Nice Métropole Côte d’Azur denounced a little earlier an “indecent” procedure in the columns of Nice morning.
These workshops are not new, responds the metropolis
Enough to make the community jump. In a letter addressed to the union representative on Friday, the general director of services Olivier Breully evokes “gross manipulation” and a “deliberate diversion of comments taken out of context” which “do not reflect the reality of the exchanges held”. According to the metropolis, these workshops are not new. They have existed for several years.
No matter, for the CGT, they were in any case one of the responses provided by the metropolis in recent days to the request made before the summer to review the face value of meal vouchers. A clumsy approach at the very least, in the context? This is what the union is denouncing.
The DGS, in any case, assures that the Nice metropolis “has always been attentive to the working and living conditions of its agents”. “It has always implemented the measures taken by the State as quickly as possible” and in particular “the so-called “inflation” compensation”. The community also intends to grant its staff “a “purchasing power” bonus when its conditions of allocation have been defined by a decree to be published,” promises Olivier Breully.