Professional redeployment of local government workers

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.