Laurent Berger defends these professionals, “three quarters of whom are women”, and denounces a lack of recognition of the arduous nature of their jobs.
Le Monde avec AFP
In the eyes of Laurent Berger, employees in the social and medico-social sector should be “THE great cause of the five-year term”. The secretary general of the CFDT calls, in a forum published by the Journal du dimanche (JDD) of January 10, to an immediate 15% increase in their wages.
He deplores” underpaid “professions:” Their records pay are lower than the average by more than 25% “and” their working and employment conditions are marked by a strong use of part-time work and precarious contracts, high claims, a high rate of work stoppages and lack of recognition of the arduousness of their jobs “.
An increase is, for him,” necessary to reduce these abyssal gaps, and give these professionals a little of this republican value of equality “.
” Getting out of short-term logic “
In this forum, the union leader castigates “the absence of e national coherence in the financing and management “of the social and medico-social sectors. “This creates a breach of the principle of equal treatment and access to the public service”, he notes.
“These sectors are essential for social cohesion. It is urgent to remove them short-term logic. The taking into account of a fifth risk through a new branch of social security goes in this direction. It is still necessary to ensure a sustainable and sufficient financing. “
But , also underlines Mr. Berger, “behind these policies, there are professionals, three quarters of women, who, on a daily basis, engage with the most vulnerable”.