“I will have to work nine more months”
Laurence, 59, specialist educator, lives in Seine-et-Marne and works in Essonne.
“I work in an associative child protection service. I have two children, I have no hole in my career. I was hoping to retire on the 1er May 2025. But, with the reform, I will have to work nine months longer… Which seems huge to me.
On a daily basis, we intervene in families to respond to the orders of the juvenile judge. It’s a job that wears out very quickly, psychologically and physically. We run everywhere, there is a lot of stress, especially since we have to justify what we do to the hour.
I have experienced social breakage, the penny-pinching savings that complicate our work. We are in a system that is going adrift. We are overwhelmed with procedures, documents to be filled in, which prevent us from really being with families and children. Our working conditions have deteriorated, which affects the people we have to help. And we are increasingly confronted with violence: since last September, I have counted four violent verbal attacks and one physical attack in my department…
I’m tired of all this. We give a lot of ourselves, for a derisory salary: graduated from a master 1, I received, at the end of my career, 2,100 euros net; 2,300 for a few months, with the “Ségur” measures. At the announcement of the reform of
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