1,137 euros: According to the survey, this is the average monthly salary in four professions in the medical and social sector working conditions 2019 from the Ministry of Labor: hospital service employees, nursing assistants, medical-psychological assistants and household helpers.
In the same year, the average salary of all employees in the private sector was 1,906 euros. Although these professions, which represent a million jobs, have become strategically important in maintaining people’s autonomy at home or in workplaces, they are still not sufficiently recognized.
This pay gap could be justified, for example, by the fact that 78% of domestic helpers work part-time (a quarter of them even work less than seventeen hours a week)… But “Part-time does not mean that work has a weak influence on the lives of workers”remember the four researchers Annie Dussuet, François-Xavier Devetter, Laura Nirello and Emmanuelle Puissant: It happens that domestic helpers who work in several locations start their day at 7:30 a.m. and end it at 7:30 p.m. by just Five or six hours can be counted as work “effective work”. Part-time work is therefore more than limited.
In her contribution to the scientific communication project “What do we know about work?” by Interdisciplinary laboratory for public policy assessment (Liepp), distributed in collaboration with Presses de Sciences Po on the Jobs channel The side Lemonde.frThese four sociologists and economists explain the ongoing difficulties of these professions, beyond their compensation, with the failure of current public policies. With the development of a new public management, the focus will be on the ” Perfomance “the emergence of numerical indicators has established and has the standardization of tasks “removed from the purpose of the service”.
“This process of industrialization and rationalization of the activity results directly from the pricing methods of these medical-social activities on the part of the authorities, which tend to recognize (and therefore finance) only the working time that is considered “productive”.” »emphasize the researchers.
A form of abuse
The consequences of this rationalization are twofold: the workers – 90% of them women – are exposed to both industrial and tertiary hardships, that is, carrying heavy loads, but also complex relationships with users, and they lose the meaning of their work because they sometimes realize that Following “standards” is a form of abuse.
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