does not benefit from any prospect of development or promotion. In 2019, the town hall employed 10,800 “temporary employees”, in addition to 2,800 holders who also carried out temporary assignments. These positions are occupied more than 65% by women, especially for part-time extracurricular missions (animation, babysitting, etc.).
“Theoretically, the temporary worker should be used to accomplish specific and specific tasks,” explains the lawyer. But if at the end of three years, we have a temporary employee who performs the same tasks every day, it is because he replaces the equivalent of a full-time job, and that is a problem ”, points out David Pilorge. . The use of these workers seems to have become the norm in recent years, with 5.3 million hours of work carried out by temporary workers in 2019. At the Town Hall, it is ensured that the recourse to the vacation is not used. only for replacements in the event of absences or to ensure a supervision rate for extracurricular periods. Theoretically, therefore, never to ensure the equivalent of a full-time position. An explanation far removed from the reality of the temporary Challenges questioned.
“I have no holidays, no RTT. I am a pawn”
Christine * has been babysitting and facilitating in schools in eastern Paris for nearly a decade with this status as a temporary employee. For three years, she has replaced a colleague guardian on sick leave. The equivalent of a full time for a city agent who would be incumbent, but not for her: “The person I replace is never there, obviously I have a full time job. But I have no vacation, no RTT. We are not recognized at all, I am a pawn, ”she says.
On June 22, the ax fell: her quota of hours of vacation was reached -1,607 hours of vacation over a year (the annual duration of working time in communities for a full-time equivalent) – she can no longer work. “The school principal wrote an email asking that I be extended until the end of the school year.” A request denied. Very touched, she regrets not being able to finish the school year like her tenured colleagues: “I am not asking to be established, just that we are treated better, this is not human.”
In fact, not all temporary staff work so many hours a year. “The shifts are overwhelmingly part-time: an average of 379 hours per year, or less than 32 hours per month”, according to the City of Paris. By inspecting the figures of the social report of the agents of the City of Paris, we notice all the same that more than 3,100 people exceed the 500 hours of shift per year.
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“We can be cleared overnight”
Matthieu, 23, is an animator in a 19th century schoolth arrondissement. Annoyed by his situation, he also points out the inconsistencies of his status: “It’s a question of justice, I very often work more hours, but I earn 500-600 euros less than a holder.” According to him, variations in salary from one month to the next can be very significant. This status of temporary worker also represents a discomfort vis-à-vis job security: “You can be released overnight, I know people to whom it has happened”. Despite numerous letters of recommendation from his superiors, Matthieu did not obtain his tenure. Situations on which unions regularly alert.
Nicolas Léger, co-secretary general of FSU-SUPAP, denounces a form of “illegal vacation”: “We have colleagues who do the equivalent of a full-time job, or sometimes more”, he warns. . In addition, the town hall has been overtaken several times by the patrol for having underpaid its contractors. The latter are paid 10% above the minimum wage, but three times in recent years, the City has “forgotten” to adjust the wages with the annual increase in the minimum wage. Errors which gave rise to salary adjustments, sometimes of the order of several thousand euros according to Nicolas Léger.
However, some find many advantages in this status. Like Sarah, who has been on shifts for ten years in 13th century schoolsth arrondissement. The first experiences that started as a student job, “practical to adapt to my college schedule,” she explains. Today, thanks to her husband’s job, she can afford to do only a few shifts a month. “If I want to start working again, I just have to pick up my phone, it’s a real freedom. I never wanted to be tenured, because I didn’t want to do that all my life. ”
The City says it wants to limit the number of temporary workers
According to David Pilorge, an agent with a temporary employment status can apply for a CDI, under certain conditions. But many of these contractors are either not aware of these provisions, or do not want to come into conflict with the administration, for fear of not being called back to work their hours of shift. The City of Paris admits that this status is problematic, explaining that “the overall policy is to limit the number of temporary workers, which is thus down slightly (-1% compared to 2018).” The current reform of the working hours of their permanent colleagues may well have an impact on their lot. The issue of these workers must also be on the agenda of the Paris Council in the second half of 2021.
* The first name has been changed
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