Unfreezing of the index point of civil servants: “It is a delicate arbitration for the government”


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The French Minister of Transformation and Civil Service, Amélie de Montchalin.

Faced with rising inflation, the government is announcing that the value of the index point used to calculate the remuneration of nearly 5.7 million public officials will be unfrozen by the summer. This next thaw marks a break with the wage policy conducted so far by the government, which is more favorable to targeted increases. Less than a month before the first round of the presidential election, the Ministry of Transformation and Public Service assured that these measures had been decided ” based on economic determinants “. The decryption of Henri Sterdyniak, economist at the French Office of Economic Conjunctures (OFCE) and co-founder of the Atterred Economists .

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