A note on overstaffing ignites France Télévisions – Le Figaro

Downsizing is not the priority of the new roadmap defined by the state.

This is the note that set fire to the powder. According to Le Canard chained , Françoise Miquel, Head of the public broadcasting mission in the general economic and financial control – which depends Bercy – wrote a note early 2015, attempting to prove that the public broadcaster supported 1222 too many employees, a workforce of 10,000 people!

Written on its own initiative and with its uncommitted working hypotheses, Françoise Miquel sent this note to senators without warning the management of France Télévisions.

So, the finance department of the audiovisual group was very surprised to receive a questionnaire audiovisual Senate committee asking for explanations on that note.

France Télévisions responded to the Senate , point by point dismantling the figures and sent a copy of its response to the Ministry of Culture and that of Finance.

Since then, the dialogue, already a little tense between the general direction of France Télévisions and the representative of Bercy, became downright sour.

Françoise Miquel arrived to calculate overstaffing 1222 posts, applying to France Télévisions regime of working time in force in private companies, not the one agreed in the collective agreement signed between the management and unions of France Télévisions in May 2013.

Negotiated for three years, this collective agreement rather generous for employees of France Télévisions, came to finalize the establishment of the single enterprise. Certainly, for to endorse by employee representatives, the conditions were rather aligned upward than downward.

This did not prevent the public broadcasting group to apply a slimming diet both the staff had put on weight.

The result in five years, France Télévisions has removed 650 net jobs down 10,000 jobs under the bar.

If efforts should be pursued, due to the reduction of future budget allocations, declining enrollment is no longer part of the priorities set by the State shareholder. In early March 2015, Fleur Pellerin, Minister of Culture and Communication, Emmanuel Macron, Minister of Economy and Michel Sapin, Minister of Budget, together presented the roadmap of the future president of France Télévisions.

This roadmap has been detailed in the report by Marc Schwartz. However, in this 144-page report, there is no mention of the need to significantly reduce the size of France Télévisions.