Nahles receives encouragement for new bill on work contracts – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

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Labour Minister Andrea Nahles (SPD) with its reworked bill on the regulation of temporary employment and work contracts support among the powerful industrial unions. Both the IG Metall and the IG Bergbau, Chemie, Energie (IG BCE) made clear on Friday that they support the rapid implementation of new regulatory proposals. This is remarkable, because this – as reported – more on concerns of employers go down as the highly controversial original version of the bill

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the new design was “balanced and effectively able to be drawn appropriate boundaries between necessary flexibility and abuse of temporary employment and work contracts,” judged IG BCE Chairman Michael Vassiliadis on Friday in a joint statement with the President of the chemical employers, Margret Suckale. IG Metall leader Jörg Hofmann praised that a continuation of existing collective agreements for temporary workers is now easier. He expects that the draft “is now incorporated immediately into parliamentary procedure”. All stakeholders need planning security

With the proposed legislation, the grand coalition follows the principle demands of the unions. You throw company before, increasingly outsource using temporary employment and work contracts even core tasks to contractors to collective agreements for their permanent staff to bypass. Nahles’ first draft was but German Chancellor Angela Merkel also believes (CDU) went beyond the coalition agreement.

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This was particularly a planned set of possible abuse offenses in terms of work contracts: According to the employer would therefore even those companies had problems that can operate the canteen or reception by external service providers. The Association of German labor court judge then cited a milder scheme proposal is the Nahles now followed. Also, the employers’ association total metal praised on Friday the Minister had “significantly reworked”. Nahles even said they see the project now well under way. The Cabinet wants to adopt the draft on 9 March.

IG Metall, IG BCE and industry employers also find the new regulations for temporary work reasonably acceptable. However, the temporary employment sector, they still go too far. “A little light, much shadow” sees the chief executive of the industry association BAP, Thomas Hetz. judges Werner Stolz from neighboring association IGZ, the new design going, despite some improvements over the coalition agreement addition, erected bureaucratic hurdles and disregard collective bargaining in the sector.

As envisaged in the coalition agreement, to temporary workers in the future after nine months are entitled to equal have wages as permanent employees ( “Equal pay”). What is the comparative wages, the design but only defined by a presumption rule. The open actions of temporary workers floodgates, fear associations. Although the draft also stipulates that unions and temporary associations agree notwithstanding this tariff levels for the gradual equalization of wages over 15 months. From the perspective of organizations, this period is completely arbitrary.

The planned requirement that temporary workers may only be awarded a maximum of 18 months of operation, shoot over the top. Here deviations can only be regulated by collective agreements, the use sectors, so as the metal or the chemical industry. This is a massive intervention at the expense of the temporary employment sector. In addition, the new design for violations see disproportionately face tough sanctions against temporary employment agencies; Moreover, lacking transitional periods. “These points should be improved urgently in legislative process” demands pride.