Seventeen suspended professionals had seized the administrative court in the Cher, it is the only one to have won the case. But the Résidences de Bellevue, the retirement home where this nurse works, have decided to appeal to the Council of State. This caregiver would never have imagined it would come to this … In early pregnancy in the fall, she asks her doctor to stop work: ” I had pain in my lower abdomen, so my doctor stopped me from work. The retirement home requested a security check and the medical inspector validated this work stoppage. I didn’t think at all that they were going to suspend me afterwards, but they did it anyway. They told me pregnant, not pregnant, it’s everyone in the same basket. I would have done well without all of this. It’s a lot of stress and for a first pregnancy, it is sure to be complicated. Fortunately, I get my salary again. The birth is scheduled for April. “
– Michel benoit
The administrative court considered that this nursing assistant did not have to provide proof of her vaccination status because she was on sick leave, she was no longer in contact with people at risk. The director of the retirement home says that her secretariat has never been officially informed of the current pregnancy and that the pregnancy does not exempt you from being vaccinated. She appealed the decision considering that the law of August 5 is not very clear on the obligations of people on sick leave. Florie Gaëta, of the CGT, sees it as a relentlessness against this nursing assistant: ” When you are on sick leave there is a suspension of the employment contract, in fact. Today we have management in some establishments who believe they are allowed everything and who are bent on employees. In other establishments, we had no suspension of pregnant women. The law can be applied with discernment. We are in full decline with regard to women and their children.“The decision of the Council of State will not take place for several weeks.