For his first city council since his bitter defeat in the presidential election, Anne Hidalgo finds a thorny issue: the working time of agents of the city of Paris. While they currently work 33.5 hours a week, the civil service transformation law, which came into force on January 1, 2022, obliges all municipalities to switch their civil servants to the 35-hour system. An increase in working time that the agents of the capital do not accept.
To anticipate this obligation, and mitigate the anger of the unions, the deliberative assembly of the town hall of Paris had, last July, created the so-called register of “capital city servitude”, allowing agents to benefit from three days of additional RTT , under the pretext of the difficulty of working in Paris. To tackle this subterfuge, the government then seized the administrative court, which, at the end of 2021, challenged the system put in place by Anne Hidalgo.
Use another lever of hardship at work
The majority socialist must therefore review its plans, while this Tuesday, May 31, a new call for a strike was launched by the inter-union of the city of Paris, grouped under the banner “Not one more minute”, to denounce the increase to 1607 hours of annual working time, compared to 1552 hours currently. This week, a new deliberation will be proposed. It is based on the grid of “subjections”, categories that allow to act on behalf of various constraints encountered by employees: cycles, arduousness or even variability of schedules. Mention is made, for example, of night work or the principle of shift rotation. This set would include, according to the town hall of Paris, the 55,000 agents of the city, and would allow them to generate up to 27 days of RTT in exchange for the few minutes of additional work they would perform each day.
To act on all possible levers, Paris city hall also surveyed the Ministry of the Public Service to find out if it could play on the age of the staff, a factor likely to increase the difficulty of the task. She has not received a response to date.
If the town hall seems to be struggling not to risk prolonged discontent from its agents, these new proposals do not seem to convince the inter-union, which is calling for the return of the flagship measure of the “capital city servitude” of July: the three days additional RTT granted for working in Paris.