Unions highlight spread of precarious employment in public sector

France

As negotiations are set to begin over employment conditions in the public sector, seven trade union federations have set out their main demands and criticized the way that precarious employment conditions have spread in the three main areas of public service – national administration, local government and the health service. The unions’ want more workers to be on full civil service terms and conditions rather than being taken on as public sector employees or temporary contracts. They are also calling on the government to withdraw its proposal for new short-term, “project-linked” contracts.
Read joint trade union press release at > CGT (FR)

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