Benjamin Huin is the mayor of Zimmerbach, in Haut-Rhin. But since the start of the 2024 school year, reports Ouest-France, he has also been a canteen attendant at the village school, due to a glaring lack of staff.
Every lunchtime during the week, Benjamin Huin leaves his outfit as mayor of Zimmerbach, in Haut-Rhin, to put on a canteen blouse and serve meals for the 70 students in the school group in the village of 850 inhabitants. But as our colleagues from Ouest-France report, far from being a pastime, this additional daily activity serves as an emergency solution to the glaring lack of staff.
“I have no choice. We need eight adults to supervise all the children every lunchtime and we were missing two members of staff”says the mayor of the Alsatian town located near Colmar in the columns of Ouest-France. He is not the only one to have had to put on an apron: every day, around ten residents take turns to provide service in the school canteen.
“It’s a very intense job”
A touching situation but which sets, in the background, a more serious observation. That of the loss of attractiveness of this job and all those linked to childhood. “It’s a very intense job”recognizes the 32-year-old mayor, who also knows that the proposed contract is not a dream: ten hours per week during the lunch break. The fact that a Bafa [Brevet d’aptitude aux fonctions d’animateur en accueils collectifs de mineurs, NDLR] or a CAP is requested does not simplify recruitment.
For Benjamin Huin, there is no doubt, it is necessary “better pay for professions in the sector”which involves financial aid from the State to low-resource municipalities like Zimmerbach. An observation which echoes the significant recruitment problems in many sectors such as catering, health and education.
published on October 1 at 11:00 p.m., Caroline Chambon, 6Medias.
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