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Published on: 10/12/2021Updated on: 10/12/2021
On Friday, December 10, Elisabeth Borne, Minister of Labor, Employment, and Integration, visited Alençon to inaugurate the University of Home Care Services Campus, France's first facility to observe home-based roles and practices. During this occasion, she met with several stakeholders from the individual employment and domestic work sector to discuss the industry's employment challenge and how it plans to address it through an innovative professionalization policy. With a new national collective agreement and social rights, joint training agreement, and apprenticeships, this sector has been adapting and structuring itself for over 25 years to support skill development and secure career paths for professionals (childcare providers, childminders, personal carers, family assistants...) working in private homes.
A New National Collective Agreement from January 1, 2022
"This new national collective agreement, which takes effect on January 1, 2022, results from the rich and constructive social dialogue. It represents real social progress for the 3.3 million individual employers whose procedures will simplify and the 1.4 million current employees whose rights it strengthens," announces Marie-Béatrice Levaux, President of FEPEM and the Home Foundation.
Over 100,000 Training Pathways Initiated in 2021
"We have always shown ambition in our professionalization policy," emphasizes Marielle Brouard, President of the Joint National Employment and Training Committee. The results speak for themselves, with over 100,000 training pathways initiated and 2,500 certifications issued in 2021 by IPERIA, the national platform for domestic work professionalization mandated by the sector's professional branch. Alberto Mendes, a personal carer from Normandy, is among them. He benefited from short certification training through a fast-track pathway to enter the personal carer profession. He chose this occupation as part of a career change and now finds it completely fulfilling. "I'm proud of my profession, proud to be certified, coming from a completely different background (editor's note: transport and logistics). Recognition of my skills gives me confidence to continue doing my job well."The Sector Opens to Work-Study Programs
A policy strengthened in recent years with a joint training agreement (signed November 17, 2020), which establishes this commitment to support employee skill development and career path evolution through certification, guaranteeing skill mastery. Marielle Brouard continues: "We also intend to implement apprenticeships in the sector. We must attract and train young people to meet the employment challenge facing the sector. We signed a protocol supporting the deployment of work-study programs on July 8, 2021, in Marseille." Remember that over 700,000 positions must be filled by 2030[1] to ensure home support for vulnerable people from early childhood to advanced age.
[1] Source: "Prospective study of professional branches of childcare providers and domestic employees: meeting employment, occupation and skills challenges by 2030", directed by Eva Barachino and Nadège Turco, IPERIA, Paris, 2021
