The state government already presented the additional care package in June. It also includes more money for flexibility in long-term care. For the year 2023, the state will provide 500,000 euros.
TYROL. It is not uncommon for nurses in long-term care take over the duties of colleagues at short notice need to ensure that the quality of care is maintained as far as possible. The state government has now decided on a so-called “Flexibility surcharge for stand-in services” to introduce.
Flexibility surcharge of 23 euros per service
In detail, this flexibility surcharge means: People who work in long-term care and who start work unplanned (outside the working hours specified in the duty roster) and at short notice (within a period of three calendar days) receive additional benefits a surcharge of 23 euros per service on top of the normal hourly wage.
As already mentioned, this flexibilization surcharge is one of many points in the state’s additional care package.
“Every ‘step-in’ not only causes additional expenses, but also an increased level of stress and pressure. It is all the more important to recognize this additional service accordingly and to compensate it financially.”,
concrete LRin Leja.
71 million euros for care in Tyrol
The state’s “5 times more care package” is dedicated to five areas of care. With measures in these areas, the work situation for nursing staff in Tyrol should be further improved.
Next to more money for care in Tyrol more training opportunitiesmore quality for care, more support for caregivers such as more child care created in nursing. In the next three years, the Federal Government and the State of Tyrol will provide for this an additional 71 million euros to disposal.
ÖGB: Further measures must follow
The ÖGB is also satisfied with the “flexibilisation surcharge”. This would be a further step towards improvement for employees. Nevertheless, the way to a good and comprehensive care package would still be a long way, warns Tyrol’s ÖGB chairman Philip Wohlgemuth.
In the future there will be financial compensation analogous to the collective agreement of the Austrian Social Economy (SWÖ) for stepping in.
“The implementation must now happen as quickly as possible and apply to all employees in nursing and healthcare professions.”
so cheerful and adds:
“The so-called ‘3-M rule’ is still needed for care: more money, more staff, more free time.”
More staff are needed both in day service and especially in night service and also in mobile care, as a result of which the maintenance minute key be increased in order to give the employees the framework to be able to respond more to the needs of those to be cared for.
If Wohlgemuth has its way, one must too Personalreservewhich can quickly provide additional staff across all locations, for example holiday and sick leave replacements.
In addition, the establishment of a nationwide, high-quality care pools (e.g. for 24-hour care) taking into account the underlying employment and training requirements.
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