Tribune. The issue of care for elderly people with loss of autonomy or with disabilities imposed on France by the challenge of aging deserves better than controversy. In a column on dependency, “The departments must reaffirm their support for the associative sector of home help” published in The world May 15, Mme Marie-José Daguin, president of Aide à domicile en milieu rural (ADMR), and Thierry d’Aboville, secretary general of ADMR, are in fact convinced that the employees of associations serving the elderly deserve a fate. go.
They are concerned about the reluctance of the departments to support the revaluation of the salaries of home helpers employed by the non-profit sector. This 15% salary increase was recorded in rider n ° 43 to the collective agreement for the home help branch and will be approved by the government at the end of May.
The mission entrusted to some 400,000 home helpers who support our seniors every day is essential. And it will be a little more each day. The status that we grant them, the recognition that we grant them, the respect that we show them must reflect our awareness of the issue of old age in our country.
An inaccurate argument
While the government has promised salary increases, wanting to give different treatment to home helpers because they are employed by the public sector, associations or companies, is indecent. Do dependent people wonder about the status of those who wash them, feed them, accompany them at the end of their life?
To convince the departments of the merits of the salary increase authorized by the government, the officials of the large association of the associative sector use a totally fallacious argument consisting in asserting “That companies in the lucrative sector have complete latitude to increase the salaries of their employees, in particular over the course of their price increases (admittedly supervised for a part of their activity)”.
In other words, the private sector benefiting from the freedom of prices, it would have no difficulty in thus financing the salary increases of its home helpers, an area in which, according to the ADMR, “The State is not intended to intervene”. This is wrong, and Mme Daguin and Thierry d’Aboville know this perfectly well. The rate increases of companies are in fact regulated by law and cannot exceed a rate of between 1% and 3% each year, which is insufficient to finance an increase in wages in the same proportion as that of 15% provided for by the rider 43.
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