| Sarkozy's taking on the bureaucrats directly. Chirac must be sweating bullets at the thought that his bought and paid for buddies might not be in a position to protect him soon. |
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| France to slash up to 40,000 civil service jobs | |
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| Posted by:lotp |
| #6 work for the State of California and we have to take an exam to get on a list, one on the list you can apply for civil servant jobs, and from that you can get an interview and hired. It also works that way for promotions. All-in-all it's pretty fair because you have to have some competency to pass the test which means that you are qualified for the job. It's not gauge on performance, the tests usually measure basic knowledge. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2007-06-22 17:25 |
| #5 "In total 70,000 civil servants will retire between now and next year... so about half of them will not be replaced," We call that attrition, only the MSM would call it 'Jobs Slashed". In my humble opinion. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-06-22 14:09 |
| #4 Ah, thanks for the clarification. Is it an exaggeration to predict that the Enarchs will fight Sarkozy tooth and nail? |
| Posted by: lotp 2007-06-22 09:24 |
| #3 Yes. It was mostly politicians and they were employed not by the state by the city of Paris. The slashed jobs mentionned in the article are state. |
| Posted by: JFM 2007-06-22 09:20 |
| #2 It was my understanding that Chirac protected the bureaucrats from various inquiries into expense accounts etc. But perhaps I'm mis-remembering on that? |
| Posted by: lotp 2007-06-22 06:06 |
| #1 It doesn't work like that. French civil servants are recruited through exams. Only 1 in twenty make the cut. Direct appointment for civil servants is very, very limited in number Then there are contractual workers who have fixed time contracts but these are mostly in technical jobs and not in positions allowing to influence Chirac's fate. There is no spoils syetem like in America. This has positive sides but also negative sides like civil servants hampering governmnental action when they don't approve. |
| Posted by: JFM 2007-06-22 05:58 |