In France, 57% of seniors have a job. As the cost of living continues to rise, many rely on their salary to pay their bills and buy groceries at the supermarket. They know it, It is particularly difficult for people over 60 to find a job. Yet this is what a caregiver is faced with. Tuesday February 27, 2024, in an interview with Ouest-France, a 60-year-old woman declared that she had decided to attack her employer at the industrial tribunal, who ended their collaboration on November 28, 2023. In the space of 17 years old, this caregiver had signed no less than 530 fixed-term contracts at the Santé Atlantique maternity ward in Nantes. If she had applied for a permanent contract at the start of her career, she had had to put up with the fixed-term contracts that were offered to her. For West Franceshe indicated having signed a six-month contract in March 2023 with a “crazy schedule, 48-hour weeks, four nights on call per week”.
Was the caregiver costing her employer too much?
If this caregiver had worked in this maternity hospital for 17 years, friction with her supervisor would have arisen. After reporting an incident concerning the care of a woman who had just given birth by cesarean section, she was summoned by general surveillance. “I am told that due to a reorganization and an alleged behavioral problem, I will not be called back. And I’m even advised not to apply elsewhere.”she remembered, before estimating: “I think I cost too much. I have been a caregiver since 1985. With my seniority, I am paid 200 euros for 12-hour care. I do ten, I earn 2,000 euros on a fixed-term contract“. Asked by West Francehis lawyer recalled that “if the fixed-term contract is not exceptional, it is then a contract of indefinite duration”. He thus attacked the management of the clinic to request a reclassification of the contract as a permanent contract. For its part, the management of the maternity ward defended itself by assuring that the nursing assistant could have benefited from a permanent position, but, “didn’t want it”. The caregiver assures that this type of position did not suit her given that it was open to all, but for a working time of 60%.