The Public Service Department (Département de la Fonction publique – DFP) of the OGBL has just submitted a list of demands to the next government’s formator and to the members of the “Modern State” working group, in order to summarize its demands concerning the public service and to take them into account in the drafting of the future government’s program.

The DFP brings together the OGBL’s four professional public sector syndicates – the Railways Syndicate FNCTTFEL-Landesverband, the Education and Science Syndicate (SEW/OGBL), the Health, Social and Educational Services Syndicate and the Public Service Syndicate OGBL/Landesverband – as well as the civil servants’ associations with which the OGBL has signed cooperation agreements.

Together, these syndicates and associations represent more than 20,000 members – workers, civil servants and employees of the State, the municipalities, the CFL, public and parastatal institutions.

Among the demands submitted to the government formateur was the replacement of the current model of negotiating the civil service wage agreement with the only union with a majority among civil servants and government employees with comprehensive negotiations covering the entire public sector.

In fact, the outcome of the wage agreement negotiations will affect not only civil servants and state employees, but also, directly or indirectly, tens of thousands of public sector workers, including CFL agents, employees, civil servants and employees of municipal public services, state employees, as well as employees of public and contracted institutions in the health, social services and education sectors. As the majority union in all these sectors, the OGBL should therefore be included in such global negotiations.

The DFP also supports the democratic election of staff representatives among civil servants and state employees – representatives who, like staff delegations, should have clearly defined rights and duties and be independent of the administration. This is not the case at present.

Finally, the DFP demands that the 5% increase on the first 100 points of civil servants’ salaries be maintained once and for all, to ensure that civil servants and employees with low or even average careers do not suffer any loss of salary as of January 1, 2024.

The full list of demands submitted to CSV and DP in French can be read here.

Communicated by the Civil Service Department of the OGBL,
October 31, 2023