It is a sign of appeasement and a way of avoiding unwelcome disruptions during the Paris 2024 Olympics. The president of Ile-de-France Mobilités (IDFM), Valérie Pécresse, confirmed, on Sunday July 9, in Les Echoes the staggering of the schedule for the opening of the Parisian buses of the RATP to competition until the end of 2026.

Initially hostile to this spread, Ms. Pécresse said she was ready in mid-April for “a gradual implementation” of the opening to competition of Parisian buses, without giving up the deadline for the end of the monopoly in December 2024. which raised fears of social unrest during the summer of the Olympic Games.

Following the recommendations of a report produced in particular by the former boss of the RATP, Jean-Paul Bailly, the bus networks furthest from the center should therefore be allocated to the new companies between September 2024 and until the end of first half of 2025, with an entry into service of nine to twelve months, specifies the newspaper in its Monday edition. The allocation of the last “lots” of the new division of the network, those of Paris-intramuros (left and right bank), will go until the end of 2026.

Maintain certain benefits

According to Les Echos, the president of the Ile-de-France region also provides that drivers changing employers can keep certain social benefits from the RATP, such as health coverage or the works council. The decree which governs their transfer granted them, in fact, less advantageous conditions.

IDFM must, to keep its promise, modify this decree with the agreement of the Ministry of Transport. According to the newspaper, nearly a thousand agents from certain areas of the middle crown should also benefit from this harmonization.

The president of Ile-de-France Mobilités also promises that the drivers will remain assigned to their current line, but also to the same depot, to avoid taking them too far from their place of work. In return, Valérie Pécresse asks the drivers to waive, for a period of one year, the reduction of their working hours from 1 p.m. drivers, specifies the daily.