A career that has only a distant connection with public service, a very liberal pedigree, an anti-squatter law… The very Macronist successor to Stanislas Guérini is starting without the slightest advantage against the civil servants’ unions.
“Simplify at all levels and bring public services back to the field.” For now, we will have to be content with these few words tweeted by Guillaume Kasbarian, this Saturday, September 21 in the evening, to try to understand what the new minister responsible for “The Civil Service, Simplification and Transformation of Public Action” plans to do in this ministry that presides over the destinies of 5.7 million public agents. It is possible that this 37-year-old Macronist does not really know it, he who has until now only maintained a very distant relationship with the public service – he graduated from a business school (Essec), worked in a strategy consulting firm, and his last position was that of Minister of Housing in the Attal government, obtained after he distinguished himself with a so-called “anti-squatter” law denounced by housing assistance associations.
Trade union opposition
In what state did his predecessor, Stanislas Guérini, leave him the new law on the Civil Service that he was supposed to present this autumn, but whose design was abruptly interrupted by the dissolution? Mystery. For all we knew, this project consisted in particular of introducing more “deserved” in the remuneration of civil servants, and there was talk of overhauling the administrative categories (A, B and C) that govern the civil service. While denying that he was practicing “civil servant-bashing”, Guérini had united the civil service unions against him, even more so when he had mentioned in the media, but not in front of those most concerned, his desire to lift the “taboo” layoffs.
Guillaume Kasbarian’s first words do not herald a radical change of direction, nor does his very liberal pedigree. In short, he is starting without the slightest advantage over the civil servants’ unions, one of the main ones, FO (first in the State civil service, second overall), wrote in a press release following the appointment of Michel Barnier to Matignon: “The functioning of public services and the working conditions of agents have been undermined by the multiple reforms and reorganizations imposed over decades. We demand an end to this policy of permanent reform, the matching of needs and resources and recruitment wherever necessary.” A statement summarizing the position of all the unions.
Source: www.liberation.fr
