Professional redeployment of local government workers

• Marine DORNE-CORRAZE
  Director, interdepartmental management centre of La Petite Couronne (area covering the inner Paris suburbs) in the Ile de France region (Paris and its surrounding area)
  

Summary

Recognising the difficulty in creating a proper status for personnel in local government, the law recognises the need for redeployment of these civil servants similar to that of their state counterparts. As a result, classifying eight hundred thousand people into groups with varying grades, allows a comparison between local government employees and others in the public domain. However, a significant obstacle still opposes the movement of personnel : the fifty-five thousand elected representatives who run these communities are the only ones who have the power to hire and fire these workers. Marine Dorne-Corraze explains how, in the absence of a national career regulation, management centres have re-organised themselves to implement various procedures to recreate the local government unit, in particular the installation of a computer database listing available positions and training for civil servants.

Summary translated from French by Rachel MARLIN.

• The entire article was written by Élisabeth BOURGUINAT.

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