“Legal certainty” for live-in work in Germany: A strategy for formalization?

IF 2.8 4区管理学 Q1 ECONOMICS

International Labour Review Pub Date : 2024-09-05 DOI:10.1111/ilr.12434

Eva KOCHER

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Abstract

Domestic workers who live in private households often lack access to decent work and labour rights. Formalization is widely understood as a normative strategy to improve working conditions. In Germany, the debate surrounding domestic live-in work has centred on “legal certainty” and this article discusses whether and how legal certainty could contribute to formalization. Legal developments (for example, in Austria) show that legal certainty can actually have the opposite effect, by disguising bogus self-employment more effectively. I argue that, similarly, not all claims to establish more legal certainty are likely to improve the situation of live-in care workers in Germany.

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德国留宿工作的 "法律确定性"：正规化战略？

生活在私人家庭中的家庭佣工往往无法获得体面工作和劳动权利。正规化被广泛理解为改善工作条件的规范性战略。在德国，围绕留宿家庭工作的争论集中在 "法律确定性 "上，本文讨论了法律确定性是否以及如何促进正规化。法律的发展（例如在奥地利）表明，法律的确定性实际上会产生相反的效果，因为它可以更有效地掩盖假自营职业。我认为，同样地，并不是所有要求提高法律确定性的主张都能改善德国留宿护工的处境。

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