questions and concerns about the PROXIMA reorganization project within the town hall
January 2022, the town hall of Toulouse launched the reorganization of its services named PROXIMA. 3,400 agents are affected by this redeployment across 5 territories. It causes a wave of concern among the staff concerned and an alert from the unions.
The project PROXIMA is now in orbit. This campaign promise from the mayor of Toulouse (Upper Garonne) Jean-Luc Moudenc was adopted in January 2022. “The idea is to bring municipal services closer to the population and to be more responsive to the demands of our fellow citizens.Henry explains Lagoutinemunicipal councilor in charge of human resources and social dialogue. For that, on va territorialize part of our services.“
At least 3400 Toulouse municipal agents will thus be assigned to one of the 5 new administrative territories of the Pink City. “This mainly concerns technical servicesunderlines the Toulouse elected official. This amounts to deconcentrating the central directorates by offering 5 territorial directorates. This will allow us to put an end to incongruous situations. For example, currently, when there is work to be done in a crèche and in a neighboring school, two different services are involved. With PROXIMAonly one will be needed to solve the problem.“
Since October 2022, the town hall employees concerned have received a letter informing them of the evolution of their positions. There are four situations. The agent is classified in category 1, his position is recalled. Class in category 2, the agent’s missions remain more modest they will be exercised in one of the 5 new territories. Classified in category 3, the agent can see his missions, his hierarchical attachment and his geographical assignment modified. Finally, the employee who has received a letter classifying him in category 4, sees his position quite simply redeployed.
A job exchange has been created to allow those who so wish to seize an opportunity for professional development.
Corn PROXIMA doesn’t seem to be running smoothly anymore. “We are invited to apply without real job descriptions or even a list available on all the vacancies, and without precise geographical designation within restricted deadlines“denounce the CGT Toulouse town hall in a leaflet, dated November 13, 2022.
“Without wanting to make bad puns, we are right in theaPROXIMATIONPascal reacts MaynaudGeneral secretary of the union OF municipalities of Toulouse. We realize that there are holes in the racket. We end up with very concrete problems. Agents must apply for new more posts without knowing their future manager or their future place of work. Today on the 3400 agents affected by this reorganization, no one knows where he will be in the coming months.” Some territories moreover, for the time being, no premises.
“The agents are unfavorable. They are afraid of finding themselves without affection and without knowing where they will go from January 1, 2024” to confirm Zouaouia Bossard-Refasof the union FSU Territorial 31. To pay Jean-Luc Leto, from the union Unsa territorial Toulouse:“This project is done in pain. Everyone is wondering and everyone is worried. With PROXIMAthe town hall even managed to agree the categories A to C on the psychological suffering they feel at this moment.“
Informed for several months of these changes, the municipal agents are now becoming aware consequences of PROXIMA on their professional and personal life. “If an agent keeps son post more is led to change territory, it will change completely for him, report Zouaouia Bossard-Refas. Some colleagues have bought accommodation, organized their lives close to their place of work and overnight, they will find themselves on the other side of the city of Toulouse having to endure traffic jams on the ring road to go hire. It’s complete chaos.”
So much so that according to our information, the toll-free number set up by the municipality to respond to agents on PROXIMA is saturated. “It takes more than an hour to get an operatorwe report one ofbetween them. By luck if we have one on the line, he is not even able to answer us on anything.“What to add”anxiety about anxiety“according to Pascal Maynaud.
To this is added the departure of the Director General of Human Resources, Toulouse City Hall and one of his assistants, responsible for launching PROXIMA. shows that interrogate in the corridors of the Capitol. “Career opportunities for them” to assure Henry of Lagoutine.
The apprehension is all the greater as the master ofwork of PROXIMA is called Eric Ardouin. The current director general of the services of the town hall of Toulouse set up during his stay in Bordeaux, between 2014 and 2020, a pooling of the services of the Gironde metropolis. A redesign denounced for the wave of unhappiness that she would have been appointed from the staff of the former urban community.
For Henry of Lagoutine ” in Toulouse, the atmosphere is not like this!“. “Nothing should be exaggerated. At the margin, there may be concerns and some malfunctions. But overall, it’s not a revolution, but a reorganization of services.”
The councilor acknowledges that there may be”200 to 300 people“having a malaise, but asks that we put the situation into perspective: “80% of people are in category A. There are people who are worried, that’s normal. Because any change causes concern. After, there are union postures, a few days before the elections. But we are looking for solutions. The project is done. We are trying to see how we are going to best apply it and avoid the difficulties that we are going to encounter, because, for that, there are.“The community has thus requested, at the request of the unions, a consulting firm which”will accompany all the agents who will experience difficulties” with the distribution of an anonymized questionnaire.
A point of view that does not differ from trade unions. “The executive must realize for itself what is happeningpascal analysis Maynaud. As a union representative of the majority organization at the town hall of Toulouse, I have my colleagues live all day. We’re not used to fattening the line. Currently, I don’t know many who untangle“Things are going very well, we are very happy with PROXIMA.”” What to do feared, over the next, a multiplication of appeals filed by personnel dissatisfied with their new assignment.
“Fr As a union, we are not against the reforms, but it must not harm the professional life of agents and their well-being and must not cause suffering at work. The social partners judged, rightly, are not heard in this reorganization. It’s going too fast. In this way, we cannot be to pay“slice Jean-Luc Leto, for Unsa.
Besides, on November 17, after several months of abstention during the technical committees, the largest union in the city and in Toulouse Métropole, Force Ouvrière decided to vote against the project PROXIMA. The sign that PROXIMA Could 2024 explode in midair?