night work, Sundays and public holidays will be better compensated on January 1st

The fixed allowance for work on Sundays and public holidays and night work for part of the hospital staff will be increased on January 1, in accordance with the government’s commitments, according to two texts published on Saturday December 23 in the Official Journal. “As an extension of the agreement relating to the hospital public service within the framework of ‘Ségur de la santé'”, compensation for night work will be increased by 25%, according to a decree. And “fixed compensation for working on Sundays and public holidays” increases from 44.89 euros to 60 euros on January 1, according to a decree. Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, interim Minister of Health after the resignation this week of Aurélien Rousseau, greeted on the social network “unprecedented attractiveness measures”.

On August 31, the government announced a total of more than a billion euros in increases for caregivers, in particular in favor of night and Sunday work, a response to the hospital environment, and in particular emergencies, in crisis. permanent for several years. To retain paramedical staff, “we are going to increase the remuneration of caregivers and nurses by 25%”, announced Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne. For non-medical staff, the government planned a 20% increase in Sunday work allowance.

Fewer and fewer beds available

The publication of these revaluations comes a few days after a new report from the statistical department of social ministries (Drees), published Wednesday, which establishes that more than 6,700 full hospitalization beds were closed in 2022. The shortage of staff explains in part, according to the Drees, this drop in reception capacities, almost constant since the beginning of the 2000s, according to data from Irdes (Institute for Research and Documentation in Health Economics).