The value of the index point, which is used to calculate the salary of 5.7 million public officials, has been frozen since 2017.
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The index point, which serves as the basis for calculating the salaries of 5.5 million public officials, will be revalued by the summer, according to information from France Inter, Monday March 14. The office of the Minister of Transformation and Public Service, Amélie de Montchalin, specifies that the amount of this revaluation must still be arbitrated by Matignon.
The index point had been frozen since 2017. It will be revalued by next summer to take into account galloping inflation, the office of the Minister of Health told France Inter. Transformation and Public Service. In an interview with Parisien-Aujourd’hui en France, Amélie de Montchalin explains that there is “a new element today: inflation persists, it is strong and lasting”.
Inflation is estimated between 3.7 and 4.4%, according to the Banque de France. The Minister recognizes that the drop in the salaries of civil servants is a reality. This announcement comes three days before the interprofessional mobilization of March 17 for wages and less than a month before the first round of the presidential election. Seven of the nine unions representing the public service had demanded Thursday “negotiations and immediate measures”, in particular salaries, in favor of “attractiveness” of the public sector. The intersyndicale (CGT, Unsa, FSU, Solidaires, FA-FP, CFE-CGC and CFTC) had called for the value of the index point to be unfrozen and to open negotiations on the remuneration grids, the maintenance of the power of purchasing agents and their career prospects.
Public Service Minister Amélie de Montchalin had repeatedly ruled out the thawing of the index point by the end of Emmanuel Macron’s five-year term, instead defending targeted increases and an expanded wage dialogue beyond the single point of ‘index. In addition to the unfreezing of the value of the point, Amélie de Montchalin has undertaken to act on the mileage allowance received by agents using their personal vehicle as part of their duties.