It’s done. Three months before the Olympics, the majority unions at RATP announce that they have concluded several negotiations with management on Wednesday evening. The documents will be officially signed in the coming days. But the 19,000 employees mobilized this summer obtained answers to their requests for compensation.
According to a leaflet from FO-RATP, agents of the “metro transport services” (MTS) department, including the 3,000 metro drivers, the most mobilized in July, August and September will be able to receive a bonus of “up to 2 500 euros “. To obtain this amount, you must not be absent for more than four days over the period from July 22 to September 8. On the fifth day of absence, the bonus drops to 1,600 euros. “Exceptional event” bonuses will also be distributed, with different amounts depending on their request during the events, ranging from 740 euros to 1,014 euros depending on the number of days of presence. “RATP bonuses are individualized. The average premium per person is rather around 1,000 euros,” says the management of the authority.
FO-RATP also welcomes an agreement on the postponement of untaken leave in 2024, which can be postponed to 2025, up to 11 days. The MTS sector agreement also includes an exceptional night bonus and an “annual off-period holiday bonus” for those who take their vacation from September 15 to 30.
In another press release, the CGT-RATP of the RER department also lists the results obtained for professions such as switchers, drivers, operational managers or regulators. These agents will also receive 1,600 euros provided they do not miss more than 4 days. Just like GPSR security agents (up to 1,770 euros). Non-operational professions (secretarial work, design, training, RER) will receive 400 euros for the efforts made. For the 17,000 bus drivers and some 5,000 station agents, negotiations should be concluded by next week.
A swelling Olympic budget for Île-de-France Mobilités
The final cost of these bonuses will be calculated at the end of the year, like those granted to SNCF employees, still under discussion. Their total amount will be added to the overall budget for the increased transport offer during the Games, 15% higher than that of a normal summer during the week (and 30% on weekends), in order to cope with the presence of 10 million visitors for the Olympics. Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM), the regional authority which organizes and finances the transport offer, estimates the Olympic envelope at 250 million euros, instead of 200 million announced in 2023.
In order to finance this additional cost, the president of IDFM, Valérie Pécresse (LR), is counting on revenues linked to Olympic passes sold to visitors, to circulate between July 20 and September 8. This package costs 16 euros per day (or 70 euros for seven days) to travel to all 25 sites by metro, bus or RER.
Free transport was a promise when Paris applied to host the Games in 2017. But the organizing committee (COJO) ultimately explained that it did not have the necessary budget.
In other sectors, the bonuses allocated to agents who will work this summer are already known. The police should thus receive up to 1,900 euros. The conditional remains in place since the overall envelope including this bonus and tax-free overtime hours linked to the event would not have been budgeted. “We discovered that it did not appear in the 2024 finance bill,” notes Linda Kebbab, national delegate of the Un1té union (former Unité-SGP police). Bercy is blocking and Matignon is not arbitrating what the Minister of the Interior promised.” This is why his union is calling for a mobilization on April 30. At AP-HP, bonuses will range from 800 to 2,500 euros gross per week depending on the employment categories. Civil aviation air traffic controllers will benefit from an exceptional increase of +4.5% in their usual bonus.