Historic rise or preferential treatment? By announcing an increase from 13% to 15% in the 1er October 2021 salaries of staff who work with dependent or disabled elderly people, Brigitte Bourguignon declared on the 1er april: “We have never gone so far in upgrading the home help professions. ” In reality, this development only concerns the voluntary sector, ie some 154,000 jobs. The minister delegate in charge of autonomy is criticized by commercial companies in the sector – which claim about 111,000 employees from “Fragile audiences” – to create a “Distortion of wage competition” while they “Are already struggling to recruit”.
“The government wanted to extinguish, at little cost, the fire in the ranks of home helpers, treated as the last chores during the health crisis, laments Antoine Grézaud, director general of the Federation of services to individuals (FESP). By not including private companies in its equation, the Bourguignon team will only have been blowing on the embers. ”
“No sufficient margins”
A bad trial according to the latter’s office. “What we reproach the minister, do we get annoyed at the ministry, is to have done his job! “ In February 2020, the associative branch signed an amendment to its collective agreement with a view to raising the salary from 13% to 15%. But the rider must be approved by the State to be imposed on employers. Mme Bourguignon has made a commitment to grant approval by the end of May. Trusteeship and funders, home help and support services (SAAD), the departments will pay structures which have association status a specific allocation to cover the increase in salaries at the end of the amendment. The cost would be 300 million euros for the departments. Mme Bourguignon proposed that the State take charge of 50% of the sum via the 200 million euros registered in the law on the financing of social protection (PLFSS) for 2021.
Several departments have already announced that they will put their hands in their pockets: Maine-et-Loire, Morbihan, Rhône… “No government since that of Lionel Jospin had done as much for home help as that of Jean Castex with Brigitte Bourguignon”, welcomes Julien Mayet, president of the Union Syndicale de la section du domicile (USB), on behalf of the associative sector. “It is obvious that the revaluation of salaries in the non-profit sector will increase our salaries compared to the private sector. But no-one, he adds, does not prevent the private sector to increase wages… ”
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