To be able to take care of her 12-year-old daughter suffering from acute leukemia, an employee of Monsieur Bricolage received more than three hundred and thirty days of rest from her colleagues.
Giving his RTT days or leave to a colleague to allow him to stay with his sick child is now legal. This thanks to a text adopted by the Senate in 2014. And since this law called “Mathys”, the outbursts of solidarity follow one another. After an employee of a foundry in Mayenne has collected 213 days to stay with her nine-year-old child with a tumor, it’s another mother’s turn to benefit from this philanthropic gesture.
This is Nathalie Simonet, the mother of a 12-year-old girl affected by acute leukemia type B lymphoblastic (ALL). The diagnosis fell last spring. This courageous mother has been working at the Monsieur Bricolage store in Domérat, in the Allier region, for twenty years. But recently, she has had to reconcile her professional life with the Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital where her little daughter Claire is undergoing chemotherapy treatment which should last between ten months and a year.
Solidarity goes beyond the Allier
So that she could stay at her bedside, many colleagues offered her days off, relay the journalists of The mountain. To date, Nathalie has therefore accumulated 330 days of rest, a “breath of fresh air”, she confides to the regional daily. In more detail, about thirty of these donations come from the store in the Montluçonnaise area. Thus, solidarity has gone beyond the borders of the small town. The rest of these days off actually come from the group’s other French sites. “There are people who have given and whom I don’t know,” says Nathalie. A week was also offered by the company, she adds.
A necessary time for Nathalie who explains in The mountain that multiple precautions must be taken to avoid germs to her daughter: “hygiene must be impeccable, linen washed every day, and food must be the subject of multiple precautions. For example, she should never eat reheated food. I couldn’t see myself leaving her alone, that wasn’t possible, ”she concludes. His co-workers granted his wish.
Mathys law
This text authorizes an employee to “waive anonymously and without consideration”, with the employer’s agreement, days of rest for the benefit of another employee of the company having the care of a child under the age of twenty years old with an illness, disability or victim of an accident making a “sustained presence” essential.
All types of rest days (RTT, recuperation days or ordinary paid vacation) are concerned, both in the public sector than in the private sector. However, only those which are beyond 24 days can be donated, among the days of ordinary annual leave. The essential nature of a sustained presence must be certified by the doctor in charge of the illness or disability of the child concerned.
Source: www.vie-publique.fr
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