Question 17125 — civil servants and public agents

Summary

Mr. Jean-Michel Brard draws the attention of the Minister of Territorial Planning and Decentralization to the difficulties encountered by public officials who assume the long-term role of family caregiver. In Loire-Atlantique, many territorial agents, whether they work within municipalities, intercommunalities, the department or public establishments, are forced to put their careers on hold to support a child with a disability, a spouse suffering from a neurodegenerative disease or a parent who has become dependent. These situations, far from being exceptional, are often long-term. However, the measures currently provided for by the civil service statute do not respond to this reality. Caregiver leave is limited in time and availability cannot be renewed indefinitely. In several communities in France, agents were thus refused the renewal of their availability for the sole reason that they were not able to return to their duties full time, even though their loved one still required daily presence. These agents find themselves in an impasse: forced to choose between their job and their family responsibilities, they risk losing their status and their rights while they carry out a essential mission of solidarity, which often avoids more costly recourse to medico-social establishments. This situation is out of step with the commitments made by public authorities in favor of the recognition of caregivers. While the aging of the population and the increase in disability situations lead to a constant increase in the number of caregivers, civil service law remains insufficiently adapted. Also, he asks whether the Government intends to change the availability regime in order to allow helping public officials to maintain their status when their assistance situation is long-term. He also asks him if he plans to create a specific system guaranteeing a return to employment under conditions compatible with their situation when their caring mission ends and, more broadly, to strengthen the protection of family caregivers in all three aspects of the public service.

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