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In this field the Mayor is clearly liableOnce more music by Randy Newman is fallingAt this time PTFE was extremely expensiveI am the butte of a province flooded bombingThe price of apartments thus increased from 1It is time that the other half to join themAs the Court is not the only one to occurWe see no slowdown in spending of advertisers He was in 2003 go to the Turkey to be dismantledFeature six pilings on which it is perchingDry scheme for civil servants. Yesterday, at the second meeting of wage negotiations 2011-2013, Eric Woerth, Minister of public service, and Georges Tron, his Secretary of State, announced the freezing of the index point (basis of calculation of the salary of officials) in 2011. This stagnation is the first since 2003 (see chart). And for 2012 and 2013, no increase is planned at this stage. "For subsequent years in 2011, the annual appointment provided for in the agreements of February 2008, will determine the evolution of the point, taking into account the economic situation", simply indicate the Ministers. If the door is not formally closed, should one unlikely (faster that does the Government) economic recovery or a fiscal consolidation spectacular for that two years are not marked by a new freezing of the point. The Inter-Union is not illusions. In a joint statement, it considers that the discussions "2012 and 2013 are already and already placed dark auspices".
"Test of strength"
Concretely, 5.2 million of officials not therefore benefit from no general increase next year. In a context of budgetary rigour, this line was approached several weeks ago. It will result in significant savings: an increase of 0.8 of the index point, as granted in 2007, 2008 and 2009, costs about EUR 600 million per year to the single State employer. Only "grant": after trying to return it, the Government has maintained the programmed 0.5 increase since 2008 for this year. It shall enter into force, as planned, on late July wages.
Unions are angry. "The Government chooses the showdown." The RGPP, pension reform, non-replaced departures and now wages! "Everything accumulates and is now on a scenario of major confrontation," warns the SGC. They denounce "losses programmed purchasing power", a fortiori with premiums rising retirement from 2011 to 2020 (0.27 point per year) in the reform of pensions. According to the unions, which are based on the difference of evolution between the index point and inflation, the purchasing power of agents already decreased by 9 since 2000 and a three-year freeze would lead to a new decline of 7.
"Natural" progression
The Government rejects this grid of reading. He pointed out that the "natural" progression of wages (to seniority and promotions set), estimated to be 1.5 to 2 per year according to departments, ensures the maintenance of purchasing power. And also promises to renew the device for individual guarantee in the purchasing power (Gipa), launched in 2008, allowing the officers treatment increased less rapidly than inflation to benefit from a premium of catch-up. The Gipa could cost dearly if inflation skid. The State employer may also be faced with a problem of settlement of low-wage grid, who likely iron below the SMIC level when it will be upgraded or adjustment of the index point, every January 1.
Eric Woerth and Georges Tron also confirmed the maintenance of other measures salary already in force or in the process of deployment, such as the launch next year of collective engagement and the extension of the individual merit awards, which should benefit to 200,000 officers by 2012. The most important of these measures remains the return to agents, as categorical measures of 50 of the savings from the replacement of a retired on two (500 million per year). In total, are approximately 1.5 billion that should be returned to the agents on 2011-2013.
