To support helping employees - those employees who take care, in addition to their work, of a loved one with loss of autonomy or with a disability - a new leave called "caregiver leave" comes into effect on Thursday .
The employee will have a balance of 66 days, compensated between 43.83 and 52.08 euros.
"When it's a child who has a long life ahead of him and progressive diseases, 3 months, it's true that it's not much but you have to know how to be grateful, it's still a hand on the shoulder. And for our family, in our situation, it will really allow us to breathe and not find ourselves in a dead end. "
As of this Thursday, helping employees, like Alexandra, mother of a 9-year-old girl with a very rare genetic disease, will benefit from compensated leave of three months.
A project that parliamentarians have been discussing since 2018 already.
Among the 8 to 11 million French people who help a loved one with loss of autonomy or with a disability on a daily basis, there are many employees who, at worst, stop working and, at best, mobilize all their leave for s 'take care of the person for whom they are responsible.
This time should be over, at least in part, by Thursday.
The new device which comes into force, the "caregiver leave", will allow the helping employees to stop while being compensated.
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From 43 to 52 euros per day
The right, for an employee, to take leave to take care of a disabled child or an elderly parent has existed since 2016. Until now, few have used it because once the paid leave and RTT have been closed. only the days without pay remained.
This is what changes from this Thursday.
From now on, the employee has a capital of 66 days, or about three months, in which he can draw.
The leave may be renewed for up to one year over the employee's entire career.
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And for each day consumed, he will receive an allowance paid by the Family Allowance Fund.
The amount of this allowance is 43.83 euros if he lives with a partner and 52.08 euros if he lives alone.
This three-month compensated leave, which can be taken all at once or split, is open to employees but also to job seekers and the self-employed.