Civil service agents mobilized during the Olympic Games (July 26 – August 11) will receive bonuses, Stanislas Guerini, Minister of the Civil Service, confirmed this Saturday March 9. They will amount to 500 to 1,500 euros depending on the degree of involvement of the agents and the impact of the event on their profession, he specified on Franceinfo.
“A special, additional system” is planned “for the security forces, who will be particularly mobilized”, added the minister, a few weeks after the government’s announcement of bonuses of up to 1,900 euros for certain police officers and gendarmes .
Stanislas Guerini also announced that 10,000 universal service employment checks (Cesu) would be paid to civil servants mobilized during the Olympics, up to 200 euros per child as a general rule, and 350 euros per child for single-parent families. “We are going to set up nursery places, reserve 1,000 places in holiday centers to be able to further help families who send children to camp,” he continued.
“The whole country wants there to be no strikes”
During the interview, Stanislas Guerini especially wanted to reassure about the social context during the Paris Games, two days after calls for strikes launched by the CGT and FO. “The whole country wants there to be no strikes,” insisted the minister. “This moment (the Games: Editor’s note) must be a moment of success for the nation […]. I meet a lot of public officials, there is not one who announced to me their intention to strike” during the event, he assured.
On Thursday, the general secretary of the CGT, Sophie Binet, affirmed that the union would file strike notices in April in the three branches of the civil service (state, territorial, hospital), for the period covering the Olympic Games. A few hours after this announcement from the first public sector union, the second, Force Ouvrière, followed suit by announcing a strike notice running from March 19, the day of inter-union mobilization for the salaries of public employees, to September 8 .
The CFDT (3rd union) and the Unsa (4th) have conversely made it known that at this stage they are not calling for mobilization in the public service during the Olympic and Paralympic Games.