In next few years, thousands of specialists in nursing industry will be absent. The institutions of nursing institutions refore promote, among or things, many volunteers who have to orientate mselves professionally. But religion is still a decisive criterion for a career in Catholic German Caritas and Protestant Deaconry Germany, that is, in two out of six top associations of welfare.
The church institutions can demand "ideological loyalty" from ir workers. In concrete terms, this can mean: those who are not members of church or who do not live according to religious principles can be fired. A Caritas in year 2011, for example, announced an employee of a daycare center because he had withdrawn from Catholic Church. The man complained. But Federal Court of Justice gave church right.
Although top associations are increasingly losing market share to private providers and or associations, such as Red Cross and DieArbeiterwohlfahrt. Here religion does not matter. But many thousands of people are still being cared for in church institutions. There is hardly any alternative in some places.
Non-Christian caregivers get only temporary contracts"There is a discrimination privilege for Christian churches," explains Aleksandra Lewicki, a junior professor at British University of Sussex. She has spoken for her PhD sis with many nursing staff and has dealt with General Equal Treatment Act. Article 9 grants se bodies same exceptions. In 2017, she was particularly concerned with situation of non-Christian nursing staff in Germany.
She has found that many of refugees from Muslim countries such as Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan do not even have to be in Christian institutions or have to be content with fixed-term employment contracts. This does not only concern Muslims, but it is also problematic in East Germany to find employees, but many people are none re. The heads of homes often do not see mselves in a position to implement guidelines of church leadership.
Nursing Courses for refugeesNeverless, church institutions cannot be accused of being unwilling. In almost all federal states re are initiatives that want to recruit new employees. In Berlin, for instance, Deaconry offers even targeted nursing courses for refugees and would like to employ m at ir own stations. The national associations of deaconry are guided by attitudes to new provisions of Council of Evangelical Church from year 2017. In principle, y can refore employ religious and Muslim. Only y are not allowed to lead services and do not undertake work in field of Protestant education. According to directive, you must also respect "Protestant" character of your employer. The disadvantages were refore softened, but not abolished.
Elsewhere, however, associations prefer to look abroad for possible carers. "The Christian institutions focus mainly on Christian employees, for example from Poland," says Lewicki. Or or non-believer employees sometimes want to inspire those responsible to convert to Christianity. Over and over again people were baptized for a permanent position, Lewicki has experienced in ir interviews. "The patient's religion is usually not important to patients," she says. Moreover, is this enough to close gaps?
Date Of Update: 08 February 2018, 12:03
