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Since 2009, Caroline Fiat has worked as a caregiver in several private-sector Établissements d'hébergement pour personnes âgées dépendantes (EHPADs) in Grand Est.[2] She is the first caregiver to sit in the National Assembly.[3][4][5] Fiat has also been an ambulance driver, telemarketer, commercial assistant and executive assistant during her career.
In September 2017, Fiat was sued by one of her former parliamentary assistants, who contested their firing from Fiat's staff and demanded a resumption of his job contract.[12]
Fiat served alongside Monique Iborra of La République En Marche! (LREM) as the co-rapporteur of a fact-finding mission on EHPADs, which published its conclusions in March 2018.[13][14] The report recommended a doubling of the number of caregivers and an investment of 8 billion more euros in EHPADs over four years.[15] On 1 February 2018, she spoke in favour of a bill on the right to euthanasia and assisted suicide which was ultimately suspended in the National Assembly.[16] Fiat also introduced a bill aiming to ban excess medical fees aiming to improve access to healthcare in 2019.
On 26 February 2020, Fiat received the 2019 Transparency in Pharmaceutical Policy Award for France.[18][19] The award was given to her by the Observatory for Transparency in Pharmaceutical Policy in recognition of her efforts to promote transparency during debate over a social security appropriations bill for 2020.[19][20]
Upon the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, Fiat returned to her work as a caregiver. For almost a month, she worked at night in an intensive care unit at the Regional University Hospital Centre of Nancy while performing her parliamentary duties in the afternoon.[21][22] During this period, Fiat observed what she described as a deep decline in public hospital conditions and signed a petition in L'Humanité on the topic.[23] She also proposed at the start of 2021 to grant the same "post-COVID" pay bonus to caregivers in medical-social establishments as those in hospitals.[24]
On 28 July 2020, during debate on a bioethics bill that would open assisted reproductive technology to all women, she gave a widely discussed speech where she related her own experiences on the topic.[25][26]
On 10 May 2022, Fiat was re-nominated by La France Insoumise as its candidate for Meurthe-et-Moselle's 6th constituency in the 2022 French legislative elections.[27] On 14 May 2022, she officially launched her campaign for re-election in Blénod-lès-Pont-à-Mousson. Fiat announced Julien Hézard, the Communist secretary-general of the Meurthe-et-Moselle CGT and deputy mayor of Blénod, as her designated substitute.[28][29][30]
^Derai, Par Yves; à 11h07, Benjamin Jérôme et Gaëtane Morin Le 26 septembre 2017 (26 September 2017). "Assemblée nationale : premiers mois, premiers émois". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 16 June 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
