24-Hour Care Worker in Austria – A conversation on how 24-hour care workers need a firm legislative framework that protects their worker right
Human Rights in Europe
Amnesty International EAAC
5.0 • 2 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the second epsiode of our podcast series on care worker rights in Europe. In this second episode we speak about the rights of care and health workers in Austria. We are exploring the reasons behind why 60.000 24-hour care workers are working in unfair, unsafe and precarious working conditions in Austria. Further, these live-in care workers are to 98% migrants and 92% women which gives the topic of unfair working conditions an extra human rights issue. We speak to Teresa Hatzel from Amnesty Austria to explore the reasons behind and solutions to the human rights dangerous situation.
Please sign Amnesty Austria’s petition here: https://www.amnesty.at/themen/24-stunden-betreuung-in-oesterreich/warum-24h-betreuung-in-oesterreich-dringend-einen-menschenrechtskonformen-rechtsrahmen-braucht/
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome everyone to the Amnesty EU Action Coordination Group's podcast on human rights in Europe. |
| 0:14.7 | My name is Mira, the moderator of the podcast, and I'm pleased to welcome you today to this podcast episode on Care Worker Rights |
| 0:22.9 | in Austria. This episode is part of a broader series on Care Worker Rights in Europe generally. |
| 0:29.7 | Therefore I would like to highlight a previous episode which we published two weeks ago, |
| 0:35.4 | which is on Care Worker Rights in Italy. So if you have not listened to |
| 0:39.1 | that, I invite you to do so. Today we have Teresa Hatzel from Amnesty International here as our expert |
| 0:45.9 | on the topic. As previously mentioned, we're speaking about care worker rights in Austria. |
| 0:51.4 | However, to inform you in advance, due to connections issue on the day of |
| 0:55.5 | recording, we had to alter the recording slightly, which as a consequence that in some |
| 1:01.3 | parts, Teresa's voice might sound different. I'm sure you can understand in COVID-19 there. |
| 1:08.4 | All of us have been confronted with some connection issues. So thank you for your |
| 1:12.6 | understanding here. So in today's episode, we are exploring issues of living care workers |
| 1:18.6 | being misclassified as self-employed in Austria. This touches more than 60,000, which is crazy, |
| 1:25.6 | living care workers in the country. Their work, of course, is essential |
| 1:31.0 | as we have seen through COVID-19, for the people they serve, and for society as a whole. Still, |
| 1:37.7 | they work in unfair, unsafe and precarious conditions. The COVID-19 crisis has raised awareness on the issue, but also has |
| 1:46.9 | exacerbated some of the contentious problems. This podcast episode is actually inspired by a report |
| 1:55.0 | on this topic that has been published by Amnesty Austria. This report is also part of a series of research that has been |
| 2:02.5 | conducted by Emnis International, various European countries, on the impact of COVID-19 on the rights |
| 2:08.2 | of essential workers. Teresa, who I referred to earlier, is one of the researchers behind the report |
| 2:14.0 | for Austria. She's also also human rights activist and advocate. |
| 2:18.4 | So Teresa, may I ask you to introduce yourself |
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