The government will release 200 million euros so that home helpers, who work with the elderly or disabled, can benefit from a salary increase of around 15%, announced Friday, October 15 the Minister Delegate in charge of 'Autonomy, Brigitte Bourguignon.
This measure must be adopted via an amendment to the 2021 Social Security budget project (PLFSS), which the government has just tabled in agreement with its majority, said Brigitte Bourguignon in a press release.
The examination of this text at first reading in the National Assembly is scheduled from Tuesday.
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The mechanism proposed by the State is a "
co-financing with the departmental councils
", competent in matters of home help: the envelope released by the government must finance half of this revaluation, at the expense of the departments which would agree to enter into this process of financing the other half.
This device would come into force next April, and would be endowed with 150 million euros for 2021, then 200 million per year for a full year.
This method has already been implemented to grant home helpers an
exceptional “
Covid bonus
” of 1,000 euros per employee, under a device announced in August by Emmanuel Macron.
To date, more than 80 departments out of 101 have agreed to pay this bonus, for which the State has budgeted 80 million euros, welcomed Friday Ms. Bourguignon.
These measures are part of the government's efforts to strengthen "
the attractiveness of home help professions, today precarious and poorly paid
", underlined the Minister, who is due to present in 2021 an aid reform. vulnerable elderly people.
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The main federations of home services were moved this week by the absence of salary increases in the
Social Security
budget, an element according to them "
insulting
" for professionals "
who gave so much at the height of the Covid crisis
" .
