.Dior has pledged extra days off and assistance to employees needing help to support aged family members.
PARIS — Visiting a Christian Dior haute couture workshop in Paris, France’s minister delegate for personal independence Brigitte Bourguignon signed an agreement with company executives pledging extra support for French employees helping out aged family members.
Bourguignon had listened to a series of presentations and conversations with employees who recounted their experiences looking after an aged parent. A saleswoman who works at the Dior store on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, for example, explained that she was able to take the latest shift in the day in order to keep mornings free to look after her house-bound mother and prepare meals for her.
The agreement signed by Dior and Bourguignon, which provides employees with help navigating the medical system and the country’s social services as well as giving them extra days off, is part of a program with the French government centered on helping elderly people. It was drawn up with a non-profit organization called Make.org that sets up programs meant to mobilize the public and private sectors around a common cause, often soliciting participation of citizens in the process.
The minister, who is known in France for her role in promoting the extension of access to free in vitro fertilization to gay and single women a couple of years ago, was joined by LVMH general secretary Marc-Antoine Jamet for a tour of the workshops. Workers were seen carefully stitching luxury fabrics in the brightly lit space, dotted with dress forms of all sizes and shapes, made-to-measure for clients of the house.
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