Law enforcement and several other categories of civil servants or public agents have obtained a bonus in the run-up to the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Private security guards hope not to be forgotten.
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RATP agents, firefighters, police officers and gendarmes, SNCF railway workers, AP-HP staff, etc.
Many civil servants and public sector agents have recently negotiated and obtained bonuses for the period of the Olympic Games, during which they will be heavily mobilized.
For private security agents, on the other hand, it’s a cold shower: nothing is planned. And yet the unions point out that during the Games security agents will take the same risks as law enforcement, and will have the same constraints in terms of leave and working time: “If tomorrow there is an attack or any problem, it is the security agent who will pick up the first !says Djamel Benotmane, member of the CGT Commerce and service, security branch. Rest between two shifts is 11 hours. They will reduce it to 9 hours, and they will allow agents to work up to 60 hours per week. Without any compensation.”
Consequence: the sector is unattractive, and struggles to recruit. Several thousand positions are still to be filled during the Games. The unions are therefore demanding a bonus, of 50 to 100 euros per day worked. With the threat, warns Vincent, an agent for thirty years, of striking during Paris 2024: “There are two months left to negotiate. We must not forget that without the security services, the opening of the Olympic sites will not be possible…”
During the Olympic and then Paralympic Games, 17,000 to 22,000 private security agents will be mobilized daily.
