An application remained unanswered for the time being

JESSICA BERTHEREAU and VINCENT COLLEN Les Echos

Bill posted last week in the National Assembly commission puts an end to the possibility of early retirement for the mothers of three children after 15 years service in the public service. If they want to benefit from this right not be penalized by the new rules of haircut, they must make their request for departure to retirement before December 31.

"May find themselves facing massive departures", warns the MP UMP Laurent Hénart, rapporteur for the opinion of the text to the Finance Committee, which asked the Government to take measures to better inform officials and try to smooth the departure. An application remained unanswered for the time being. The Secretary of State for public service, Georges Tron, replied that these departures were "absorbable" and that the information was widely disseminated. Nevertheless, he agreed to put the subject on the table in the debate in a public meeting in September.

The exact impact on the flow of departures is difficult to assess at this time, because no one is able to calculate the number of women who fulfil the two conditions currently - 3 children and fifteen years of service - and who might decide to liquidate their rights before the end of the year. We know only the annual departures stream in respect of these rights (see chart).

The hospital is the first sector concerned, professional nurses and orderlies are overwhelmingly women. It is already beginning to worry in health facilities. "There's been a huge request for information", it observed the Hospital Federation of France. "On the 1,100 officers of the Hospital of Annonay which I chair the Supervisory Board, 85 have the opportunity to leave, it moves Olivier Dussopt, MP PS of the Ardèche. How could a hospital cope with such personnel bleeding ""Approximately 5 of the hospital staff could claim to liquidate its rights,"according to Sylvie Brunol (CGT), which is based on upwellings of information"about twenty large institutions. "However, hospitals have already difficulties to recruit nurses currently," said Didier Bernus (FO).

In national Education also, the number of beneficiaries is difficult to define. The question remains unanswered Rue de Grenelle and the teachers unions fail to estimates based on surveys. SE-Unsa calculates that the retirement would involve approximately 25,000 teachers, of which about 12,000 in kindergarten and primary. A digit within the range established by the SNUipp-FSU, first Union primary: between 11,000 and 13,500. "Even if only one person in two concerned decides to retire here at 31 December, it would be 6,000 teachers and less in the first degree, said Joël Péhau of the SE - Unsa.". However, close the tap of recruitment. "Indeed, only 3,000 schools faculty positions will be offered in 2011, against 6.577 this year.

In the second degree, the SNES evaluates 10,000 the number of concerned teachers and approximately 5,000 those who might actually ask their application before December 31. "It will cause problems for correction and juries of the Bachelor since retirement shall take place no later than June 30," notes Anne Féray of SNES. "It could have a very complicated 2011 re-entry predicted Meanwhile Christophe Bigot of SGEN-CFDT."