At a time when the Organizing Committee for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games (COJOP) is looking for savings to try to balance its budget (4.4 billion euros), even if it means asking some of its public partners (Île-de-France Region, City of Paris) so that they can take charge of certain costs, the announcement of a salary increase in the management of the entity carried out at the end of the year 2022 is a slight stain.
MP (Socialist Party) Claudia Roux, was quoted by the programme “Further Investigation” On France 2 which is scheduled to air on the evening of Thursday March 28, reports also increase, which “ Concerns of ten senior officers” In November 2022, the Paris 2024 remuneration was approved by the Committee.
“For the majority, it’s between 7% and 10%. But some of them make a leap of 15,000 euros a year. Others see an increase of 32,000 euros. There is also a communications director who sees his salary rise from 150,000 to 195,000 euros per year.” A member of the Remuneration Committee from September 2023, explains the elected official.
She confirmed part of these figures on Wednesday morning, during the hearing of the National Assembly’s Cultural Affairs Committee of Cojop President Tony Estanguet and the inter-ministerial representative of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Michel Cadot. (Dijopp).
“How do you explain the budgetary drift in the payroll, which can exceed 100 million euros for a total cost of about 600 million euros, and on the other hand justify that this is the last year, the year of the Games (that) have (summer) Decided to take a surprise raise of 45,000 euros on a basic annual salary of 155,000 euros? “,
she said.“Salaries of the management group have not been increased,” Tony Estanguet responded, before clarifying that this however ” Extraordinary cases of some people » : “We realized that there was a difference in pay in some cases and it was recently restructured”, He explained, specifically “ Reasons for equal pay between women and men.”
“It’s all being followed very closely,” Mr. Estanguet assured, citing the role of the independent remuneration committee, J “Reports directly to the Board of Directors”. “All decisions on remuneration are approved, especially for senior executives, unanimously by the Cojop Board of Directors”, Where the state specifically sits, Michel Cadot noted for part. “That was the case,” He clarified about the increase mentioned at the end of 2022.
Mr Estanguet also justified the increase in the overall payroll for Paris 2024, which is now estimated at 584 million euros, by the need to be able to capture “Knowledge of International Experts”by “The Evolution of Organizational Spaces”. and by “Strong inflation that necessitated wage increases, especially low wages”.
“97% Secure Requirements” in Private Security.
Tony Estanguet declared to the Deputies of the Cultural Affairs Committee on Wednesday that “97% of needs” Private security has been contracted and “safe”, Whether by the Paris 2024 Games Organizing Committee (COJOP) or by operators entrusted with the management of certain sites (Roland-Garros, for example). Cojob’s requirements for private security agents are estimated at an average of 17,000 per day and a peak of 22,000. Paris 2024 must now ensure that selected companies have adequate human resources. It was decided to recruit “20% to 30%” Additional people to make up for possible absences on D-Day, declared Michelle Cadoton, inter-ministerial representative of the Olympic Games. The latter added that an assessment of available human resources would be established by the end of April. “There are some adjustments that will need to be made from the beginning of May. That’s a reasonable time frame,” Referring to resorting to the army in case of shortage of personnel, he clarified.
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