Your staff will be grateful if you help them in difficult times. Find out which support options are available here.

The number of people in need of care is also increasing every year due to demographic change. It is not surprising that care by nationals has increased further in recent years. A care can happen from one day to the next. Their employees have to do in such a case and make decisions. The legislature has created all sorts of ways to organize the care of relatives or carry out yourself. Career break is possible in the form of temporary inability to work, care and family care time. You can support your employees by talking openly with them, show understanding and seek individual solutions.

Here's an overview of how you can support your employees:

• Home Office: Working within your own four walls simplifies the maintenance situation.

• Compressed working time: full time employment is investigated in four instead of five working days (taking into account the working time limits of the working time act). This is meaningful only if a part of responsibility in the care and can lead to revision.

• Part time: There is a predetermined framework. Within this framework, your staff has the option of flexible organisation of its working time. Freedom for doctor visits, administrative procedures and other requirements are the result.

• Organisation of working time: If the nurturing person is not present, the work must continue. It is important that there are clear agreements on the team. Clear guidelines for communication and documentation are a prerequisite.

• Working time accounts: Employees can operate flexibly with his account of time to intercept phases with increased maintenance.

• In the short term waivers granted: the care leave Act granted already an interruption of the working time of ten days in acute care cases. Employees are entitled to be paid a care support allowance in accordance with section 44a (3) SGB XI. Some companies extend that to 20 days. The employee undertakes however in return to a balance for example through overtime or repayment of the 13th month salary.

• Knowledge management: Companies can offer courses or lectures on the subject. The employees receive valuable tips for such situations.

• Confidant: An employee who is a member, would like to confide in often like someone, who understands him. For a fixed point of contact can be internally determined best, someone of experience brings and competent and empathetic deals with the topic.