false employment contracts to receive public aid?

The management of employment contracts is one of the most complex files in the Orpea affair. Have savings on personnel been made for the sake of profitability? In some nursing homes, Orpea would have used many short contracts, rather than hiring employees on permanent contracts, for which the state pays it money. A former nursing assistant on a fixed-term contract had realized that the employee on a permanent contract she was replacing did not exist. “We wondered: “Who is she, when is she coming back, why isn’t she here?” And when we asked the landlines, they didn’t know”she confides to the teams of France Télévisions.

She was to replace a certain France Rivel, supposed to work full time in the nursing home. The position was actually vacant, sometimes occupied by fixed-term contracts. Maître Léa Talrich, labor lawyer, who had Orpea condemned several times for abusive use of fixed-term contracts, discovered that the name of France Rivel was used to justify several fixed-term contracts at the same time. In Ehpad, the nursing staff is financed by the State. By only using short contracts and leaving the vacant position concealed by a false CDI the rest of the time, Orpéa would have recovered public money, normally intended for salaries. This was revealed by journalist Victor Castanet in his investigation “Les Fossoyeurs”.