Nursing and healthcare professions should be recognized as hard work. This is what the Public Service Union (GÖD) and Younion are now demanding. Currently, employee requests for hard work are almost always rejected.
The work is becoming increasingly physically and mentally demanding. Night, Sunday and public holiday shifts are the norm. According to the unions, the current legal situation does not take into account multiple workloads or hours of hard work. Because twelve-hour shifts are common in, for example, the healthcare sector, the required fifteen days of hard work per month can hardly be achieved.
The current regulations require that 120 days of this must have been completed in the past 240 calendar months. In addition, 45 years of insurance are required so that employees can take early retirement before the deadline with a deduction of 1.8 percent per year.
‘Regulations don’t reach anyone if they can’
“If I write a regulation that reaches as few people as possible, then I will do that,” criticized Reinhard Waldhör, who is responsible for nursing and health facilities at GÖD. According to the unions, nursing and healthcare professions in general should be recognized as hard work, and the calculation should be based at least on an hourly basis.
Sunday May 12 is Nursing Day. To mark this occasion, national information and distribution campaigns have been planned in hospitals and healthcare institutions. The parliamentarians also receive information material and items such as a sleeping mask, coffee tablets and tissues from the trade unions. These things symbolize the pressure on the healthcare system.
Source: Krone
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