Outrage in France after civil servants were paid to do nothing for 25 years

July 04, 2020 / By mobanmarket

A regional authority in the south of France paid some 30 civil servants to do nothing for more than 25 years, it has been revealed. 

French taxpayers have been spending more than €1 million (£897,000) a year to pay full salaries to the "phantom" bureaucrats, despite at least one of them being in full-time private sector employment. 

An official report by the Provence-Alps-Riviera Regional Audit Office disclosed that others benefited from automatic promotions and pay increases based on seniority or length of service.

The report said local authorities had failed to find them posts after their original jobs were scrapped when water services were privatised in the southern city of Toulon – but kept…

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