Good working conditions instead of glossy advertising in other countries

Professionals recruited from abroad also need good working conditions

There are many voices in the press at the moment demanding that Germany must be able to keep up in the "tough international competition for foreign nursing professionals willing to migrate" (1). Most of these calls are for simplified and more efficient procedures so that globally poached professionals can solve the problem of shortages in Germany. A growing network of agencies and middlemen is involved in the poaching: from letterbox companies with Facebook ads to large agencies with big promises and glossy websites. Small service providers offer language courses with questionable guarantees of success (level B2 in 6 weeks) or even the falsification of nursing diplomas (2). There are reports from Serbia of headhunters who approach employees directly in clinics and are then paid by commission - per head hunted (ibid.).

Health workers are not a commodity

Association of Democratic Doctors rejects international recruitment of Health workers

The Association of Democratic Physicians (vdää*) rejects the expansion of the international recruitment of health workers (1). In order to overcome the shortage of health professionals, the vdää* demands a binding and adequate staffing ratio and the complete overcoming of the DRG system by a financing system based on self-cost coverage and excluding profit-making.

Health workers are not a commodity

Association of Democratic Doctors rejects international recruitment of Health workers

The Association of Democratic Physicians (vdää*) rejects the expansion of the international re-cruitment of health workers (1). In order to overcome the shortage of health professionals, the vdää* demands a binding and adequate staffing ratio and the complete overcoming of the DRG system by a financing system based on self-cost coverage and excluding profit-making.

24. February 2023

Good working conditions instead of glossy advertising in other countries

Professionals recruited from abroad also need good working conditions

There are many voices in the press at the moment demanding that Germany must be able to keep up in the "tough international competition for foreign nursing professionals willing to migrate" (1). Most of these calls are for simplified and more efficient procedures so that globally poached professionals can solve the problem of shortages in Germany. A growing network of agencies and middlemen is involved in the poaching: from letterbox companies with Facebook ads to large agencies with big promises and glossy websites. Small service providers offer language courses with questionable guarantees of success (level B2 in 6 weeks) or even the falsification of nursing diplomas (2). There are reports from Serbia of headhunters who approach employees directly in clinics and are then paid by commission - per head hunted (ibid.).

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