Project
Approximately 60,000 migrant carers are currently working in 24-hour live-in care in Austria. They look after and care for the elderly, needy and sick people and work 24 hours a day, seven days a week in the private households of their clients, in a country that is often foreign to them.
Due to their social marginalisation and work-specific isolation, as well as language barriers, the care workers are only accessible to a limited extent. Therefore, only little information is available regarding their work processes, their working conditions and the relationship between live-in care workers and placement agencies and/or the clients. This data gap leads to the fact, that the specific challenges the workforce in this sector faces, cannot be structurally addressed and resolved.
In the 15 years since this professional sector has been legally regulated, the problems regarding the working conditions of 24-hour live-in care workers have therefore remained unchanged.
Our project aims to close this data and information gap and to create comprehensive, publicly accessible empirical data, that can serve as a basis for structural change.
Funded by: Digitization Fund of the Vienna Chamber of Labour (Arbeiterkammer Wien) 2023-2024.