• Since October 1, a new salary scale is required in the home help sector.

  • However, this revaluation imposed by the branch agreement, baptized "rider 43", risked endangering the finances of associations which employ.

  • The Nord department has decided to compensate for this increase in wages.

Salary increases that undermine home help.

Since October 1, a new salary scale is required in the home help sector.

However, this revaluation, imposed by the branch agreement called "rider 43", risked endangering the finances of associations that employ.

The National Union of Home Help (Una), a federation which brings together 24 member structures, in the North, was the first to sound the alarm on Monday.

Meeting urgently, the executive of the departmental council of the North assured, in a press release, that it "will support the home help services in the salary increase of their employees".

Alert procedure

“The auditors of seven associative structures have launched an alert procedure concerning their financial situation,” explains Una.

Concretely, the cash and equity of these seven associations could not absorb an increase in the wage bill.

In the more or less long term, nearly 2,000 risked being made redundant, which would have deprived some 9,800 people of aid.

How did we come to this situation?

To understand, it is necessary to resume the functioning of these structures of help and support at home (Saad).

Since 2017, they have benefited, from the Nord department, from a fixed aid of 21 euros per hour of care for a user.

Aid which has been revalued to 22 euros in 2020.

A price that the Una already considered too low compared to services that are sometimes complex depending on the disability or the social situation of the person.

“Half of the people helped receive a pension of less than 900 euros.

They cannot pay.

Today, without additional help from the department, associations will have to go out of business, ”says Una.

Envelope completed

It's done.

"The Nord department will complete the envelope of the National Solidarity Fund for Autonomy (CNSA) up to the remaining 30% for the last quarter of 2021, and up to the other 50% for the year 2022", learns -on in the press release.

This additional allocation commits "departmental finances without guarantee of compensation for future years", wishes to specify the department of North.

In 2020, the increase in the hourly rate from 21 to 22 euros had cost 20 million euros to the community.

And with the foreseeable aging of the population, the problem of helping the most vulnerable people is likely to increase in the coming years.

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