Austria - 24-hour care: a working-time issue - February 29, 2020

An ongoing discussion about working hours in the care industry has recently led to a series of warning strikes. The discussion has focused on employees in the health, nursing and social professions, but particularly on a group of nurses who do not benefit from collective agreement negotiations: the 24-hour carers who look after the elderly and sick at home, live with them and are almost always self-employed and women.

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For more information, please contact Paul de Beer or Oana Ciuca or Sjaak van der Velden, De Burcht (Scientific Bureau for the Dutch Trade Union Movement) p.t.debeer@uva.nl or the Head of communications at the ETUI, Mehmet Koksal mkoksal@etui.org.
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