Agents of the city of Noyon invited to give part of their permanent hours

“Again, again, it is up to the agents to pay the financial disaster of Sandrine Dauchelle. ” This source close to the town hall of Noyon evokes the last surprising request made to agents From the city at the start of the year: sit on part of their overtime. We are talking here of “overtime worked last year, in 2024, but for some, they even date further.” These overtime should have been paid for a long time. Depending on the communities code, they must be remunerated or recovered during the year. Is it because of the budgetary problems? Or poor human resources management? The fact remains that they accumulated themselves, until representing “for some agents more than a hundred hours”.

A dozen agents concerned

Also, the city of Noyon, eager to bring order, summoned, in January, the agents concerned by these mountains of hours. “It concerns only ten agents, mainly those who work on technical services,” we are told. These agents are those who are called to install, for example, the barriers for the market, or, during special events, to prepare the event. Like sporting events in the city, the Motorcycle Festival, the Franc market … In January, they were notably “requisitioned” two hours to secure the square of the easel before the ceremony of the wishes of Mayor Sandrine Dauchelle. Ceremony which had been particularly hectic.

“These events on weekends, representative of the work done in addition to the hours of the week, spend in overtime,” explains an agent, who is not affected directly by the issue. “Before,” he continues, “the agents had the choice between being paid for these hours or transforming them into rest, since the awareness of the city’s financial problems, they no longer have the choice of anything at all: they do what they are told to do it. ” Note that for most agents, the use of overtime has been drastically reduced, still due to the hole in the finances of the city.

Lost hours

But during this mid-January meeting, “Mastouri asked them to give part of these overtime,” it is said. Choukri Mastouri is the Director General of Services. “The agents were invited to sign a document, with a fairly short deadline, where they are implicitly offered to give up part of their hours,” said a source. “From what we understand is that in orally, during this meeting, Mastouri offered to pay 50 % of hours due, recover 25 % and give 25 % to the Town hall ”, reports another source. “Which seems to us completely illegal”. And perhaps also doubtful in terms of morality: it amounts to saying to an agent that his Saturdays busy installing barriers for the fun fair, brought him as much as a Saturday that he would have spent at home …

According to our information “for fear of being targeted”, the majority of agents have signed this questionable agreement. On the other hand, “one or two”, would have decided not to make the document. They would have an appointment again with their hierarchy to discuss it. It is not excluded that they begin proceedings before the administrative court. A court where mayor Sandrine Dauchelle will soon spend most of her time.

This request gives the agents, to abandon part of their overtime, is made in an extremely difficult financial context. The same who had prompted the agents to claim from their elected officials a financial effort by renouncing part of their allowances when they were announced at the beginning of last year the frost of their advancement and the reduction of the recourse to overtime. A request for “giving/giving” which had been refused by the majority of Sandrine Dauchelle.

Repression climate

This new episode with the agents also takes place in an unprecedented climate of repression of agents. Rollial layoffs and layoffs (mostly disputed before the administrative court) have never been so numerous. At the beginning of February, an agent (whose name we will have), was still pointed out to find out officially “for disclosure of confidential information”. “Chokri Mastouri came to see her on the evening of January 31 and asked her to make her professional phone meaning her immediate suspension,” reports several sources. The agent in question would dispute the accusation.

Report to the Departmental Advisor’s prosecutor

An incident and more generally a “worrying” context, according to several elected officials and mayors of the Noyonnais country who fear “a dismissal”, of the agent in question. According to our information, the mayor of Guiscard, and departmental advisor to the canton, Thibault Delavenne, has just made a report to the public prosecutor concerning “the treatment that agents of the Noyonnais country and the city are currently receiving”. The sub-prefect and the prefect would also have been seized directly from the issue.

At least one agent has just filed a complaint at the administrative court for harassment.

Contacted, the mayor of Noyon Sandrine Dauchelle did not follow up.