Austria
The VIDA services union is urging parliament to launch a study into the increasing pressure under which health and social care employees work. Long working hours, long periods on call and too few staff are creating major problems in the sector and 22,000 workers signed a petition organised by VIDA and the GPA-DJP services union.
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The public sector unions representing health and social care workers, younion and GÖD, organised a protest outside the Ministry of Health earlier this month to warn of imminent burn out of the health sector. The unions are calling on the government to take urgent action on staff shortages and to convene a national health summit. Younion and GÖD presented new calculations on the growing staffing gap in the health sector with a national shortage of 3369 nurses in state, community and district hospitals, an increase of 19.2% compared to May of this year. With 986 vacancies for doctors, more
The three unions organizing health workers in the public and private sectors, GdG-KMSfB, GPA-djp und vida, have collaborated with the Chamber of Labour on a major survey of health workers in Vienna and Lower Austria. The survey shows that with staff shortages many workers are facing long hours and deteriorating working conditions which raises important health and safety questions both for the workers themselves as well as patients. The unions also highlight the long-term problems of recruitment and retention as the ageing population and workforce will increase demand for care as well as making
