Para-employer
Being a para-employer: development of an interactive digital platform to support beneficiaries of the assistance contribution from invalidity insurance in their role as employers
Type of project: Feasibility study
Disability concerned: Anyone eligible for the assistance contribution
Topics: Digital accessibility, Autonomy, Support for the autonomous role of employer, Legal aspects
Status: In progress
The aim of this project is to study the possibility of developing an interactive digital platform, accessible via a variety of media, which would centralise the functions involved in human resources management, to support beneficiaries of the disability insurance assistance contribution in their role as employer.
The disability insurance assistance contribution (art. 42quater LAI) is designed to help people with disabilities who are in receipt of an impotent person’s allowance to remain at home, while supporting their independence, by hiring assistants. To benefit from this scheme, the person concerned (or their legal representative in the case of minors) must become the employer of their assistant(s), which involves tasks ranging from recruitment to social insurance registration, including drawing up employment contracts, tax statements and calculating termination periods. Ongoing research has shown that these procedures are highly complex and anxiety-provoking, to the point where some beneficiaries give up.
The aim of our project is to study the possibility of developing an interactive digital platform, accessible via various media, which would centralise the functions involved in human resources management (application, recruitment, drawing up the contract, insurance affiliation, salary and tax statements, certificates of employment, calculating notice periods, determining holiday entitlement, salary entitlement in the event of sickness, special leave, documentary resources, practical guides, etc.).
This platform, in the form of a website, would provide each person concerned with a private user space for storing all the documents and data relating to the assistance contribution and for carrying out, in a guided and partially automated manner, the various formalities with the institutions concerned ( disability insurance office, cantonal tax administration, compensation fund, pension fund, etc.).
At the same time, this tool would facilitate the work of the assistance advisers in the support associations who are on the front line in helping the people concerned with these procedures, but who have very few resources to do so.
This platform would be an unprecedented tool enabling the people concerned to take on their role as employers completely independently. Its implementation would help to reduce the burden and fatigue for the beneficiaries and/or their families, reduce the number of people who do not make use of the service, clarify the employer-employee relationship, make it easier for potential assistants to find a job, and improve the relevance and effectiveness of the work done by the associations and the synergy between the various people involved.
