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Hospitals, schools, prefectures, our public services employ nearly 5 million agents. Elise Lucet and the Cash Investigation team decided to investigate the practices of France's largest employer, the State. If you thought job stability, quiet jobs and guaranteed salaries, forget it. What we are going to reveal to you is very far from these clichés. The State must cut its budgets. To lighten the bill, it increasingly often resorts to subcontracting, particularly in the most sensitive sectors such as health. A few months before the coronavirus crisis, Cash Investigation investigated the daily life of hospital cleaning staff. While they are more than ever on the front line, their working conditions are alarming. Our journalist Marie Maurice was hired as a cleaner by one of the French cleaning giants. Her mission: to disinfect the rooms of one of the largest public hospitals in France. And what she discovered there is worrying: hasty training, infernal pace, shortage of equipment. In a world where strict compliance with hygiene and the fight against nosocomial infections, those diseases that we catch in hospital, should be an absolute priority, the use of subcontracting raises questions. To make even more savings, the State would not hesitate to put itself outside the law. Cash Investigation lifts the veil on the little hands of the Civic Service… These tens of thousands of young people receive an allowance lower than the legal minimum wage and do not contribute to unemployment. But in certain administrations like Pôle Emploi or the prefectures, these civic services do a real job, or sometimes replace public agents, which is normally illegal. Public Services: Liberty, Equality, Profitability? Director: Marie Maurice