20.03.20, contribution 41, compensation 39, inspection of finances, executives, back-camouflage, round trips

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Paris, Friday March 20, 2020

CONTRIBUTION (41) TO THE NATIONAL DEBATE WANTED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC IN 2020.

REFLECTION ON COMPENSATION (39) AND ON THE EXCLUSIVITY OF RETROPANTOUFLAGE AS A CRITERION FOR SELECTING EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE STATE.

(Continuation of reflection n ° 38 of February 16, 2020 and previous ones. Cf.: madic50.blogspot.com)

PROPOSAL FOR AN UPDATE TO THE EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION (2)

Le Canard Enchaîné, Wednesday March 18, 2020, p. 7,: Agnès Pannier-Runacher.

"She shares with Macron the conviction defended tooth and nail by the Inspectorate of Finance, that going back and forth from public to private is an excellent thing for the state.

"We want good guys, guys who know how boxes work, or not?" Annoys an important member of the body. "

This identification of backlighting with knowledge and ability, this definition of its action as being the selection of the '' good '', leads to making it a selection criterion between the executives.

Those of the financial inspectors who do not leave the fold of the State would have a lack of knowledge and capacity.

Inevitably the value of executives and their selection is established on the criteria of the selection of "good". That is to say, the possession or not of capital.

This hypertrophy of the relation to capital does not correspond to the realities which found these back and forth.

The driving force behind public-private back and forth is not the desire to know '' the boxes '' but first of all the personal financial incentive.

All returnees speak of the financial sacrifice made to return to public service. They omit to say that it is this place of quasi-sacrificial income that ensures these caste positions of principles of high income in the private sector.

The newspaper gives an order of magnitude of this association with capital. Ms. Pannier-Runacher "roughly divided his salary by three. "

The magnitude of the differences is significant, but it is not insurmountable.

However, it would be equally wrong to identify this search for gains greater than the lure of gain.

With globalization, the criteria of the authority of executives of international level have evolved.

If employed CEOs are so constantly trying to look like shareholders, it is also because the possession of capital, and the income that accompanies it, are important, even determining, elements of the public authority of a executive officer.

The returnee returns to the public with knowledge of the '' boxes '' and capital.

The difference between returnees and the rest is not primarily between knowledge and ignorance but between the possession of capital added to high wage income and the income of a single salary, lower.

For the state effects of these round trips, we can not stick to the sole knowledge of the mysteries of the '' box ''.

The returnees bring with them the knowledge but also the politics of the '' box ''.

The employees who practice back-camouflage are certainly executives. They are nonetheless employees.

They are in a state of “legal subordination”.

The question posed by these incessant back and forth is to know with respect to whom.

The European Commission has already indicated that these round-trip practices disrupt the logic of public interest in the Community.

The same goes for states.

The coronavirus marks the limits of this exercise of subordination of the State, and public administrations, to the logic of the market.

Henceforth, the government does not hesitate to say that "the essential structures of society are outside the competitive field" (cf. Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister of Foreign Affairs).

What is at stake is not the back-projection or the diversity of the trajectories of state officials and of the policies which cross it.

It is the exclusivity of this practice as a criterion of the value of senior government officials that is not credible.

1- It brings confusion between the competition of ambitions and the capacities to serve the State.

2- It weakens public service policies.

a- It promotes crises, such as those of public health.

b- It makes palliative solutions based on constraint inevitable.

3- It dislocates the networks of state executives who have no collusion with private interests.

The facts impose to retain that the State and the public administrations exist, that they have their raison d'être.

We must therefore allow each of those who have the capacity to occupy a managerial position according to their talents.

Even on a European scale, the balance sheets of the executives remaining in the public field are worth that of the back-bombers.

It is therefore necessary to allow the rest to adapt to the new criteria of authority. They must be capitalized.

 

It is by taking into account the global requirements as to the status of the leading executives that the European states will be able to give to the overflighters the possibility of avoiding the trap which tends to them to become the Trojans of an anarchist policy regulated by the only shakes of society.

European states must recover their capacity to have networks of senior managers with no other experience of '' boxes '' than those of knowledge internships.

This is only possible today if the remaining executives have, like the back-blisters, access to capital and the international authority that flows from it.

It is possible to put everyone afloat without affecting the public treasury. Still, you need honest "guys" who don't support a thing to impose its opposite.

Only the Head of State can present this reform. He will have to establish that it is not that of a particular caste and that it functions according to democratic and universal principles.

Marc SALOMONE