A N A LY S I S LABOUR AND SOCIAL JUSTICE SITUATION OF THOSE WORKING IN ELDERLY CARE IN THE EU AND HUNGARY Andrea Gyarmati February 2022 Overall, the number of em­ployees in elderly care can be expected to increase by a minimum of 50% by 2030 in the EU, even under unchanged conditions. In Hungary, the average salary of someone working in elder­ly care is 5% lower than the overall average in the social services sector. Employees would consider a minimum wage increase of at least 50% as fair in the current situation. More than half of employees have second jobs to supplement their earnings. The consequences of staff shortages are manifold: there is less and less time to pro­vide individual care; increas­ing stress and risk of injury, rising number of patients, faster pace of work, subsi­tutions and the division of responsibilities, and a lack of time for trade union activity.