It is complicated to do only winners with a reform seeking to save 12 billion euros per year. In fact, the analysis of the effects of pension reform shows more and more that it would mainly generate losers, among which women workers or employees would be the hardest affected. These, which appeared to be essential during the pandemic, remain poorly remunerated and do not see their working conditions improve.
The case of home aid is, as such, emblematic. The need and the usefulness of taking care of people who are losing their autonomy is no doubt: allowing them to stay at home despite the drop in their capacities in particular beneficial effects on the hospital system, people benefiting from these aids are less often oriented towards the hospital by the Samu and are less often hospitalized by the emergency services.
However, this collective utility has a cost, which is borne by these employees. Their working conditions are painful, expose them to household maintenance chemicals and traumatic postures, when you have to wear patients from bed to armchair, help them walk or toilet. The remuneration remains very low, not only because the hourly wage is low, but also because the paid working time is much lower than the time devoted to work, because it is fragmented between the different people helped and interspersed with many times of Transport between their homes: according to data from the Directorate of Studies of the Ministry of Labor, the average number of hours of employees of personal service organizations was in 2021 of 16 hours per week.
The fuzzy of arduousness
For home aid, pensions reform is a violent blow moreover carried on their living conditions. The tasks accomplished does not allow these women to hold up to 64 years. They would therefore impose on them a passage through unemployment, even by the RSA, between the moment when, worn by this use so useful for the community, they will stop exercising it, and the moment they could finally claim retirement. And how long will they benefit? If life expectancy has increased, inequalities remain very high, and with disadvantage of home aid: The INSEE estimates at eight years and four months the difference in life expectancy between the fifth of the wealthiest women and the fifth the poorest. In addition, the Studies Department of the Ministry of Health shows that the gap is also very strong in the proportion of people highly limited by Incapities from the first year of their retirement .
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