Weight loss cure in sight for Health Insurance: the largest Social Security fund, with 82,000 agents on permanent contracts, will reduce its workforce by around 2% by the end of 2027. The Board of Directors of Insurance illness gave the green light on Monday to a new agreement with the State providing for up to 1,700 job cuts by 2027, subject to “productivity gains” and with a “review clause” in two years.
Confirmed by three members of the board of directors, this quantified objective does not appear in the new objective and management agreement (COG) of which AFP obtained a copy. This document specifies that the “staff reductions” will specifically target the “liquidation of benefits” and the “management of rights”, thanks to “productivity gains” linked to the computerization of care sheets, invoices and other forms. Conversely, a “strengthening” of human resources is promised in other areas, including “access to rights and care”, the “fight against fraud” or even “prevention programs”.
The text was approved with the voices of employers and users (chronically ill, disabled), and thanks to the abstention of mutual insurance companies and the CFDT, while the other unions voted against, detailed in a press release the president ( CFDT) of the Board of Directors of Health Insurance, Fabrice Gombert. The adoption of this agreement had been blocked for several weeks by the subject of job cuts, finally defused by the addition of a “review clause” scheduled “during the first half of 2025”.
Incidentally, the reduction in the workforce has been made “very gradual”, with only 5% then 10% of the 1,700 cuts in the first two years, or around 250 by the end of 2024. If the “productivity” objectives are not reached on this date, the Health Insurance and its administrators will be able to “revise the trajectory of the workforce” and even spread it “if necessary beyond 2027”.
