Long-term unemployed and young people: employer for more minimum wage exceptions – n-tv.de NEWS

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 Sunday, March 13, 2016

 
 
 

 
 The minimum wage is too high, say the employers’ organizations – at least for some people. Long-term unemployed, for example, to stay even longer than previously excluded from the minimum wage, they are now demanding.
 

 
 

The employer associations are demanding far-reaching changes to the minimum wage law. For people with placement difficulties there must be more exceptions to the minimum wage, cited newspapers Funke Media Group in a letter from the Confederation of Employers’ Associations (BDA) to the Bundestag.

Those who have never worked, at least one year of work was or did not have a recognized degree, should be exempted for the first twelve months of employment by the minimum wage.

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the aim is to significantly improve the opportunities for people with placement difficulties, it said. To date, long-term unemployed can be employed for the first six months with no minimum.

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Except even teenagers are under 18 without vocational training. The BDA criticized the minimum wage law creating “just for the most vulnerable in the labor market” barriers to entry. A fundamental revision of the law is therefore essential.

The minimum wage law applies since the beginning of 2017. The statutory minimum wage is 8.50 euros an hour. A commission of employers and workers to make a decision about his future level until the end of June.

  Source: n-tv.de
 

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