The CEO, Philippe Charrier, and the General Manager France of the group, Jean-Christophe Romersi, were defended, Wednesday, before the Assembly’s Social Affairs Committee.
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Many questions, few explanations. Accused by the book of Victor Castanet, the graves (Fayard, 400 pages, 22.90 euros) to have the only compass financial profit to satisfy the shareholders of their group, the President and CEO, Philippe Charrier, and the General Manager France, Jean-Christophe Romersi, of the Orpea group defended, Wednesday 2 February, before the National Assembly Committee on Social Affairs of designed a “system” which would lead to a “dehumanized functioning” of its institutions. Accommodation for Dependent Elderly (EHPAD).
At the end of two hours a forty-five hearing, members denounced the lack of “quality”, “lack of answers [of the two leaders], said, Fadila Khattabi (the Republic in March, LRM, Côte-d’Or) The President of the Commission. “With hollow speech and technical-administrative arguments”, they managed to “walnut the fish” indignant Nicolas Turquois MP (modem) of the Vienna.
With reference to the charges by the Victor Castanet survey, the Commission’s questions focused on the quality of the care of the elderly and the reality of the “rationing” of material such as disposable protections. “Of course we do not count them,” replied the group’s boss, Mr. Charrier.
At the EHPAD the banks of Seine, in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine) where according to Mr Castanet, the residents were entitled to the maximum to “three layers per day” in 2018, Mr. Charrier indicated that in 2020 the ratio was 4.6 layers per resident in 2019 of 5.4 layers … “We never refused protection orders, defended. even if when the order instead To arrive in the morning, arrives in the afternoon, there may be small differentials. “
In the case of criticism on food rationing, the French Director France of Orpea M. Romersi replied that “45% to 50% of the elderly are undernutrition by entering EHPAD”. “70% of its denurating residents, he said, covered a satisfactory nutritional state after six months.”
“82% of employees are in cdi”
The two leaders were asked about the massive resort to the cens, presented as the pledge of a wage cost optimization desire in Mr. Castanet’s book. “We have only 8% of employees on CDD. 82% are permanent”, replied Mr. Romersi without specifying the share of the cens among the only caregiver. “There are people who wish to work only on CDD, argued Mr. Romersi. It can be understood. They can handle their schedule, work fifteen days in a row and no longer work, sometimes accumulate several positions and be Paid with a premium of precariousness. “” With the benefits you do are you do not think you could recruit? “, Haute-Garonne MP (LRM) asked. Mr. Charrrier explained that the group already supports investments to build or renovate an EHPAD that are “funded by any public body, by no allocation of resources. These are the own money of the company that finance the purchase of the field. , building construction, depreciation. “
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