After the idea of getting pensioners back to work, the union is now coming up with “much more efficient approaches”.
It just doesn’t work anymore. The health care system seems to be becoming increasingly out of balance. The mayor’s cry for help is getting louder. By 2030, 76,000 additional nurses will be needed. How to fill this gap is hotly debated.
An idea comes from the director of the West Training Center, Walter Draxl. On Ö1 he said the government should “fish out of the pensioners’ pot”. “They have to get an attractive offer.” It takes three to five years before people in training can close the gap, until then retired informal carers have to help.
Minister Rauch also rejects the new proposal
While ÖVP pensioners’ representative Ingrid Korosec welcomes the proposal, Health Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens) and the trade union representatives strongly oppose it. Interventions in the pension system fail Rauch. “We have to look first and foremost at the time before retirement. That means: we need better job opportunities for women, measures for the unemployed and the integration of internationally skilled workers in the labor market through the red-white-red card”.
For health professionals Edgar Martin and Reinhard Waldhoer, the new solution is just a smoke grenade at the expense of much more efficient approaches: “An absolute minority program! Many are happy to have reached home just after the heavy workload.
The team, which represents the national union leadership of the health professions, will present its “package of demands against the burnout of our healthcare system” on Wednesday. In order to finally be able to act again, the government is asked to implement the following five points as soon as possible:
- Tax exemption of the 32nd hour per week: Currently, more than one million hours per week are missing due to agreed part-time work. If all nursing staff were to work full-time, that would equate to 26,000 more full-time workers who would not need to be retrained.
- Gradual reduction of weekly working hours to 35 hours: Currently, the average working hours of all occupational groups would be 31.8 hours.
- Consistent adjustment of employment conditions to the number of employees to ensure reliable duty rosters
- Finally some real recognition as hard work
- Immediate employment of all interns
Source: Krone
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