Au Pair in Germany - are there laws against an extra part time job?

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Lear

As an EU citizen you are allowed to work everywhere legally in the 27 member states. Thats very general of course. You probably have to do some bureaucratic work before all requirements are fulfilled though.

Alwin E

Legally, there are rules that you'd have to register your job, but practically, you can teach the neigbors' children English, for example, and if they give you money for that, no financial authority will care. You don't have a working contract with them, and they'll pay cash, and that's it.

If a school wants to hire you, that's a different sort of thing, but they'll advise you on what is best for both. There are some really strange regualtions here in Germany, like, that you're not allowed to work more than a certain number of hours a week, and if you're beyond that even once, you can be taxed, but, as we Germans say:

"Papier ist geduldig."
("paper's patient")
(It means, just distribute your overtime equally, and nobody will care. -- Actually, it means much more, but that would be part of a language lesson I'd charge you 20 euros for.)

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Johnny is exaggerating; but it's true that "we, the people" are planning to re-introduce naked-*** whipping for high-scale tax evaders like Mr Ackermann and such, who betrayed us of our properties, and that's what we'd propose to Americans too: Whip their bums. I'd suggest some thirty strokes for each million they sank (currency of your choice), but that's not yet decided, and we will do so in a public vote in 2009.

t_maia2000

There are two sets of rules for au-pairs, one is for non-EU citizens and the other for EU citizens. These rules consist of employment law and foreigner's law.

I know that non-EU citizens are not allowed to work outside their Au-pair contract, bc the Au-pair visa counts as a work permit tied to the family employing you. If non-EU citizens work outside their au-pair contract they forfeit their visa. That is a foreigner's law issue.

As a EU citizen you do not need a work permit, the laws regulating work and residency permits (foreigner's law) do not apply to you.

What still applies to you are the rules regulating the employment of au-pairs in general (employment law). Your hosts/employers should have brochures or other material relating to employing an au-pair, this should be a starting point on where to look. They should also have the contact details for the clerk handling au-pair contracts at the Arbeitsagentur.

To sum it up: I don't know the answer to your question, but I know who you can ask. Go to the Arbeitsagentur, get in line and hope it wasn't a day completely wasted.

FYI, there is a limit to the number of hours you are allowed to work within a week (IIRC 48 hours) and your au-pair contract already counts as 30 hours per week, regardless how much time you actually spent working. Also as au-pair you are supposed to attend language school, and IIRC the time spent at language school counts as work time. Doesn't leave you much time to do other work (at least not officially with a work contract).

Germanlove

i am an au pair in Munich and have been offered other jobs too... since im from america i need a real work visa not just an au pair one... if you are from the EU and you didn't need to get a visa then you can work any where you want as long as your qualified!

Fenris General of trolls

t_maia answer is correct

Johnny the Zionist

but be careful. if they get you the will put you in the gas chamber. It happened already to 12 000 000 to us.

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