According to Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéry, teachers will go on strike this Thursday 1.ahem FEBRUARY. While the union is not only asking for additional resources, but for Snuipp-FSU as well “an increase of 300 euros net per month immediately and without compensation for school teachers and AESH” or even one “redefining working hours to lighten the load”The Department for Evaluation, Predictability and Performance (DEPP) national education survey, published in January 2024, sheds light on staff experiences.
Significantly lower job satisfaction
According to this second edition of the Well-Being at Work Barometer, conducted among 71,000 members of the national education system, their overall job satisfaction is 5.9 out of 10. A stable score compared to the first survey, but significantly lower than all employees’ 7.1 out of 10 10 and even 7.3 out of 10 for those with at least a bac + 3 level.
And the result worsens as job insecurity increases: substitute teachers are the least satisfied with a score of 5.6. “The professional satisfaction of the employees of the national education system is significantly lower than that of the average employed person,” summarizes Ismail Ferhat, professor at Paris Nanterre University, on X (ex-Twitter).
The priority is purchasing power and workload
“Purchasing power is the area most frequently identified as requiring improvement: 58% of employees chose it from a list of 13 items as one of their top three priority areas for improvement,” also notes DEPP.
Next in the top 3 are issues of workload (49%) and end-of-career arrangements (35%). In this regard, DEPP notes that “Half of the employees say that they do not feel able to do the same job as they do now until they retire, especially primary school teachers (58%). For comparison, according to the 2019 Working Conditions survey (ie before the last pension reform, editor’s note) DARES, 37% of employees in France » have the same perception.
If accompanying disabled students (AESH), surveyed for the first time in 2023, say they are on average more satisfied with their jobs than other national education staff (7.1 compared to 5.9 out of 10), they are less concerned about their level. rewards (2.1 vs. 3.3 out of 10) and their career prospects (2.2 vs. 2.9 out of 10).
“The data agree on a triple grim observation: comparably low professional satisfaction among national education staff compared to the rest of the working world, a clear sense of burnout and limited fulfillment in the profession,” analyzed by Ismail Ferhat.