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The Situation of spanish Nurses in Germany

The Situation of spanish Nurses in Germany. Natalia Sierra, Kalle Kunkel. Situation in the care-Sector in Germany. Demographic development – Need for more nurses and professional and unprofessional Care-Givers The Profession Nurse has become less attractive in the last years

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The Situation of spanish Nurses in Germany

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  1. The Situation of spanish Nurses in Germany Natalia Sierra, Kalle Kunkel

  2. Situation in the care-Sector in Germany • Demographic development – Need for more nurses and professional and unprofessional Care-Givers • The Profession Nurse has become less attractive in the last years • „Reforms“ in the Welfaresystem led to reducing of Staff. 40.000 less nurses in the hospitals from 1996 until today. • Many nurses leave the job or work parttime, for heath-reasons • High job-dissatisfaktion: 70% of the nurses in hospitals see themselfes under constant high pressure during work • Nurses leave the country

  3. Migration • From Countrys outside Europe with special Programms funded by the Gouverment • From Countrys inside Europe increasing with the the crises in East-South Europe • Formal low-qualified workforce from east-Europe • High-qualified Workforce from European Crisis-Contrys with a high standard Nurse- apprenticeship like Greece and Spain

  4. Legalstatus and Job-security • In the sector of formal low-qualified care-giving (24-Houre Caregiving) many Caregiversfrom non-EU-Countrys are working without working-permission or legal-status • In high-qualified sector many companys use adhesion contracts to tie the Nurses to the Company

  5. How to tie the workers to the company • To get the qualification as Nurse acknowledged, they have to pass a German-Test. • The Company is paying the Course upfront. The Nurses have to aggre, that they stay in the Company for a certain time. If they leave before that time, they have to pay a fine. • The tie range from 1 ½ Years to 3 Years • The Fine can range from 6.000-10.000 Euros • Lower wages (20-40% less) • Part of the Companys do not have a collecitve contracts and no works councils • Working-conditions are bad in questions of daily workinghours, getting payed when sick, Holydays, health and safty-issiues ...

  6. How did I came to go to Germany • No Chance to get a Job in Spain • Anouncement in Internet • Job-Interview in Spain

  7. Situation of the spanish workers in Germany • Low wage • No Nurse-Work • Work anTravel – working in all over Germany. No Regulation, to choose the place to work • Treatment, when getting sick • No freedom to choose the job because of the the layoff-fine

  8. Union acitivties • Building a union Group of spanish Nurses in GIP • Set up Demands: • No fine, when you leave the company • Equal Pay • Nurse-Work • Getting payed right, when sick • Choose where to work in Germay First Meeting with the Company on 26th of May. Waiting for an answer and preparing for further acrivities.

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