Promising Practices for the Employment of Live-In Care Workers in Europe

Autor(en)

Maria Sagmeister

Abstrakt

Live-in care work poses challenges to standard labour law in terms of working hours and the private household as a workplace, as a result, workers are often not included in protective scopes. This study explores regulative approaches to the integration of live-in care workers into labour law from different European countries. It focuses on legal regulations that organize live-in care work in the form of an employment relationship and defines criteria for best practice. Regulations vary in regard to their organizational structure, in some models the care worker is employed directly by the care receiver, in others by a third party, e.g. a public service provider, a private agency or a co-operative. Thus, this study puts centre stage promising practices for the employment of live-in care workers across Europe. The selected countries are Spain, Italy and Switzerland. In addition, two cooperatives from the UK and Ireland are taken into consideration. Throughout the study, a problem-based rather than a country-based approach is taken, which means that it is structured along typical challenges for live-in-care-workers, for which best practice examples from the selected countries are given. The study provides analytical information on approaches to organizing live-in care work as employment. It gives insights into different regulative regimes and provides a basis for the development of an employment model that ensures both fair working conditions and high-quality care; because good care requires rested and well-paid care workers.

Organisation(en)

Forschungsplattform GAIN - Gender: Ambivalent In_Visibilities

Publikationsdatum

2022

ÖFOS 2012

505001 Arbeitsrecht

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/8f640aba-c544-4d43-9874-e89750e093ce