INTERVIEW
Show solidarity with caregivers, thanks to donations of leave. Here is the proposal brought by Christophe Blanchet, LREM deputy for Calvados, in a letter addressed to the Minister of Labor, Muriel Pénicaud, and co-signed by 100 elected officials. The latter requests the possibility for employees, both public and private, to donate paid holidays for caregivers, on the front line facing the Covid-19. These leaves would be converted into a sum of money which would add to a specially created fund, and would then be redistributed to those concerned "only in the form of holiday vouchers", specifies the deputy on Europe 1.
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"Transferring paid leave to give them paid leave or additional RTT is not the idea of our proposal," adds Christophe Blanchet. "Today many of these caregivers have days to pay or RTT that they cannot take because they lack replacements." The deputy thus proposes to offer purchasing power directly to caregivers, through holiday vouchers.
More purchasing power
"We have to offer concrete, effective and fast things," continues the elected official. "It is not because they do not sell their leave that they do not take it. They will take it at a time even if it is only two or three days. Our proposal is that, even if they only take two, three days, a week with the family, they have more leisure time than if they had not had these holiday vouchers ".
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Under the designation of "caregivers", the elected representative more broadly includes hospital staff but also caregivers in nursing homes, carers at home, or even liberal nurses.
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"They know how to take care of those who have been bruised, we must know how to take care of them, in their daily life, when they go on leave," adds Christophe Blanchet. "We have been working for three weeks with the minister's office to reach a goal and a quick landing, if we want the device to be applicable and implemented quickly." The Minister of Labor, Muriel Pénicaud, has already announced that she fully supports the proposal.