A back-to-back speech by trade unions who have for years denounced the successive freezes on the index point of civil servants and planned a strike on 29 September, in particular to protest the conditions of remuneration of public officials. On the contrary, the Court of Auditors argues that "the net salary of the incumbents" "increased in constant euros", and that the gross wage bill of public administrations has increased by almost 90 billion …
The Court of Auditors recommends reducing the wage bill of the civil service, through savings on staff and wages, in order to reduce the public deficit to 3% of GDP. Trade unions call for a strike on 29 September.
Staff, salaries, promotions... the Court of Auditors targets the expenditure of the civil service in a note published on Monday 21 September. The magistrates of Cambon Street encourage, in view of the weight of the payroll, "a mastery of its evolution which has, in part, been lacking so far"