hundreds of caregivers are still waiting to be paid

Several thousand caregivers volunteered to go overseas, to the Covid-19 front. Among them, hundreds have still not been paid. Claire Finociety, nurse, worked for a month in reinforcement in Martinique. She is still waiting to receive 3,000 euros. “I think that these people do not realize, necessarily, what it is to have a month’s salary less, and for some up to five months of salary in a month.“, she confides. She calls the authorities in charge of the case several times a week, to no avail.

It all started with administrative oversight. A decree, published in August 2021, provides for compensation for requisitioned caregivers. However, it does not mention certain trades, such as temporary workers or temporary workers. “To forget a whole part of the caregivers, the physiotherapists, the nursing assistants, and realize it because precisely these caregivers put pressure and bring up the information, it’s a little light I find, on the part of the health Minister“, judge Claire Finociety. Abdel Chergui, one of his colleagues, left even longer, and expects nearly five months of salary. He had to ask for financial assistance from his mother.