Dobra praca – zła praca. Czy usługi asystencji osobistej dla osób z niepełnosprawnościami są skazane na prekarne zatrudnienie i warunki pracy?
Good job – bad job. Are personal assistance services for people with disabilities doomed to precarious employment and working conditions?

Author(s): Ewa Giermanowska
Subject(s): Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: employment and working conditions; person with a disability; personal assistance service; personal assistant; precarious work
Summary/Abstract: The article is part of a discussion on building professional roles in the care sector, illustrating itwith the example of personal assistant services for people with disabilities. It refers to interdisciplinaryresearch and a multidimensional approach to work quality, conceptualization of the conceptsof „good job” and „bad job” as well as sociological concepts and research on the precarization ofwork. Personal assistance services are becoming an increasingly expected and available service forpeople with disabilities. The adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities(2006) by the United Nations General Assembly accelerated the processes of implementing the servicein individual countries and developing its standards. The specificity of a service contract andthe expectations of a person with a disability and his or her assistant often go beyond traditionalservice and employment relationships, becoming a source of change and sometimes violation ofthe terms of the contract. State administrations try to regulate personal assistance services and theemployment and working conditions of assistants.Based on the analysis of documents and research results on personal assistance services in Polandand Norway, conducted in 2020-2022, the author presents similarities and differences regardingthe professional position of assistants in both countries. She also refers to the results of other nationaland international research projects.

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