The state government in Lower Saxony has significantly increased the possible working hours in the field of care in times of Corona by ordinance.
That creates discussions.
Because of
Corona *
: Discussion about maximum working hours in nursing in
Lower Saxony
.
The state government wants to
deviate
from the
maximum working hours
in the area of care
.
Up to 12 hours a day and 60 hours a week - the advance is heavily criticized.
Hanover - In
Lower Saxony
, a discussion about the maximum working hours in nursing has
broken
out
during the
corona pandemic
.
According to the Greens in the state parliament, the state government has increased the possible working hours for carers to 12 hours a day and 60 hours a week in view of the increasing number of corona infections.
The Greens and the
ver.di
union
strongly criticized this step on Tuesday (November 3rd, 2020).
The employees in
nursing
are already heavily burdened, said ver.di regional department manager David Matrai: “In the current situation, the point has to be to relieve them - not to burden them additionally.
Undermining occupational safety is therefore the completely wrong way for us. "
Increase in working hours in care: Greens want to overturn regulation
The Greens may want to introduce an application to the state parliament as early as next week to overturn the regulation.
“The nurses have to pay for what politics has long neglected,” said the party's health policy spokeswoman Meta Janssen-Kucz.
The tense situation in
care
was not just known since
Corona
.
"We urgently need more staff and relief for the existing nursing staff."
Statement: No further burdens for nurses
Regarding the possibility granted by the state government by general decree to deviate from the maximum working hours in the area of care, state department head David Matrai explains ... https://t.co/xSHvrsc7GA
- ver.di Lower Saxony (@verdi_nds) November 3, 2020
The Greens encourage activating a volunteer register and quickly recruiting and qualifying volunteers from nursing professions who are not currently working in the
nursing
sector.
For this, the hospitals would need additional jobs immediately.
It also makes sense to relieve nursing staff of activities such as administrative tasks or the provision of food for patients.
Longer working hours in care: according to ver.di, collective agreements continue to apply
Ver.di
pointed out that the union's collective agreements and their working time regulations continue to apply.
They could not be undermined by the regulation.
The
Lower Saxony
nursing chamber, which is in the process of being dissolved
, had also criticized the extension of working hours.
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President Nadya Klarmann criticized: "The state government is not only making a policy that ignores the interests of the nursing staff, it is even torpedoing years of efforts to make nursing professions more attractive for both current employees and the urgently needed offspring." The health system will not collapse because There are no beds or ventilators, but because the nurses are being "burned" in a way that has never been seen before.
(Helena Gries with epd)