care-worker

(Social Welfare) social welfare a person whose job involves helping people who have particular problems or special needs, for example in a care home

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Particularly the one where a care-worker changes a light bulb for an elderly man panicked by the dark.

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But in a case involving a French residential home special needs teacher (in France, the boundaries between residential teachers, care-workers and nurses are somewhat blurred), judges ruled that he could not rely on the directive to force his employers to pay him for time spent resting on call at his workplace.

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