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–Despite the interest shown in their profession, a guide for students with disabilities, an employee in a supermarket and a home care assistant recount their exhaustion in the face of the deterioration of their working conditions and their low remuneration.–

Getting up at dawn, seeing their workload increase, their working conditions deteriorate. But their salary does not change, or very little: they are accompanying students with disabilities, employed in a supermarket and home life assistant. All of them express their love for their profession, but above all their desire to see it more considered, better recognized. Release collected the words of three of these somewhat disillusioned essential workers.

Naïma Belhadj, 52, support for students with disabilities in Garges-lès-Gonesse (Val d’Oise)

“Since this year, I have been thinking about leaving”

“I started working as a school life assistant (AVS) in 2005. I was looking for work after being a nanny. When I started, my salary was 500 euros, because I was on an employment support contract. After two years, I really liked this job, I applied. I then went through one-year contracts, renewable each year. Then I ended up signing a CDI, after the AVS became AESH, guides for students with disabilities.

“Before, at most, we had two children. [Depuis 2019]everything is pooled to be able to put…

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