Parliament adopted on Thursday definitively a text aimed at better guaranteeing the rights to social protection of more than a million childminders, helpers for the elderly or "
nannies
" at home, a sector whose Covid crisis has brought into play. relief of social importance.
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The bill "
aimed at securing the rights to social protection of childminders and employees of private employers
", already adopted in March by the deputies, was voted unanimously and without change by the senators. This text with very technical provisions aims to secure the rights to social protection of these people, the vast majority of whom are women, in a context of bringing together the branch of “
employees of private employers
” with that of childminders.
At the heart of the new law initiated by LREM deputy Annie Vidal, a unique circuit for the management of complementary social protection contributions. A device described by the Secretary of State for Pensions Laurent Pietraszewski as a "
guarantee of simplicity
" for the 3.4 million employers in the sector and "
guarantee of access
" to their rights for the 1.2 million employees.
The childminders - who look after children at home - number around 300,000 and their profession is subject to approval.
The 900,000 “
employees of private employers
” work in the homes of private individuals for all kinds of family or household tasks (childcare or school support, assistance to a dependent person, small gardening work, etc.) and are often paid. via a simplified device like the Cesu.
17% of childminders below the poverty line
Senator Élisabeth Doineau (Centrist Union) paid tribute to people "
who have often worked with fear in their stomachs in the face of the risk of contaminating or being contaminated
" by the Covid-19. Guillaume Chevrollier (Les Républicains) stressed that this sector was still "
insufficiently remunerated and valued
", the Communist Laurence Cohen noting that "
17% of home helpers live below the poverty line
".
“
These essentially female jobs must be recognized in the light of their social utility,
” argued the ecologist Raymonde Poncet Monge. The Senate also voted on first reading a bill emanating from the Assembly intended to combat professional discrimination suffered by diabetics and carriers of other chronically ill patients.
The senators notably wished to better frame the possible restrictions for "
particular health conditions
" - not only chronic diseases - in access to certain professions. Their version of the text provides that these restrictions are “
proportionate
” and justified with regard to health and safety requirements. These senatorial changes will require a second reading in the Assembly. These two texts were placed on the agenda of the Senate by the RDPI group, a majority En Marche.
