Less than 5,000 people have benefited for a year from this leave to take care of an elderly or disabled person for three months, according to the Secretary of State for Disability, who acknowledged the need to simplify the steps to get it.
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It is a leave that remains unknown and to which few workers have recourse. Less than 5,000 people have benefited from a year from the caregiver’s leave, which allows for a maximum of three months of an elderly or disabled, the Secretary of State for a relative Disability, Sophie Cluzel, who conceded that the steps to get it had to be “simplified”.
“It’s very little. We think it might be three or four times more”, commented Ms. Cluzel on South Radio, where she was questioned on the occasion of the caregiver day.
Instaled a year ago, this leave indemnified 52 euros net per day for a single person is “not well known enough” and must be more promoted by companies, according to her. “It’s up to them to bring this announcement, say [to the employees]” You can tell us about it, we will accompany you, “said M me Cluzel. “There is a reluctance within his company to declare himself helping and asking it,” she deplored, promising to “simplify things”, without yet entering the detail.
Rules and a device too restrictive
According to the National Family Allowance Fund, more than 15,900 requests for caregivers have been filed for a year, but most did not return into the award criteria.
Indeed, the rules framing the device are “too restrictive” and do not allow “to adapt to the reality of all caregivers”, esteem Morgane Hiron, the general delegate of the associative collective I help you
The collective requires that it lasts longer, better compensated, and that its accessibility criteria are expanded. Currently, it can be awarded to assist an elderly person in loss of autonomy or disabled, but not for the help of a person with a serious illness, for example.