Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Coalition decisions on temporary work and retirement – “One small step” – Germany Funk

Sandra Schulz: With the Hartz reforms, the SPD-Green government of Gerhard Schröder in addition to the many changes in social policy years ago also had an important lever of labor market policy moves quite solid. The regulations for temporary work and work contracts that have been eased considerably. This made it easier for companies to time to bring people from the agency on board and to be paid less. For an important flexibility kept and keep the proponents, but considerable abuse criticize those who see the skeptical – among them for some time many Sozialdemokraten- And now the rules are stricter. That had arranged for some time the grand coalition. Finally, the CSU had logged a need for improvement. But since last night, because now is the compromise of the Grand Coalition.

We want to look at the agreement on temporary work and the work contracts. switched in Berlin now is me our colleague Gerhard Schröder, among others, labor market expert at our main studio. Hello

Gerhard Schröder: Yes, hello

Temporary work: “A saturation limit has been reached”

Schulz: the limitations that were now agreed result, the sense

Schröder: you make sense, but they will not solve the problem that agency and works contracts under be as used prior to to enforce lower payments. Equal-Pay-bid, which should be a key component of this reform so that is can only truly develop a minority of temporary workers, because it will not apply until the ninth month. However, most temporary workers who work less than six months. That is, for changing anything

Schulz:. What is the role the agency now because at the premises

Schröder: It is of course important. But we see for some years, that since a saturation point is reached. We currently have 900,000 temporary workers. This varies for years so to this number 800000-900000. What happens when the economy is in a crisis that we have in the financial crisis experienced seven, eight years ago. Since then the number of temporary workers has dramatically decreased. These were the first who have lost their jobs. In the years that this has then rebuilt. We have now reached a long period of prosperity. But we can assume if it were now times go down again, then that would make the temporary workers first.



“temporary in become more expensive in recent years”

Schulz: is it a good or a bad sign when there are many temporary workers

Schröder: it shows that the economy needs flexibility. Perhaps it also shows that we have now reached a limit that, firstly, and flexibility needs of enterprises know borders. But we also see that here might take measures, rules apply, which have now been implemented for several years in the industry. The unions have reached that will be paid in the metal industry, in the chemical industry sector wage increases. That is already a step towards been lead to higher payment. And we see that there has been an industry minimum wage before the legal minimum wage. That is, temporary work has become in recent years been more expensive, and as superior to the company of course, in more detail, I really need temporary workers on time, or do I not people firmly. The incentive to hire temporary workers only for reasons of cost, which has become somewhat less

“work contracts are used to circumvent IG Metall tariffs”

Schulz:. But the company this flexibility, you’re talking about, need, which is quite obvious, or

Schröder: this is obvious and use them indeed precisely in the well-organized industries. Whenever we take an example: BMW has a very modern plant in Leipzig. 2005 there were the first cars off the assembly line. Almost every second employee works there as a temp or a work contract workers. 4,700 master workers there are, to the same extent as service contract workers and temporary workers, and the flexibility is thus achieved by temporary workers, which is important to the company. There has also long been agreed sectoral collective surcharges. If we now perhaps time to look at the issue of contracts for work: Since the situation is somewhat different. Those are works that are then outsourced to other companies, such as canteens, which are then awarded per contract for work to service providers. Or just in the auto companies that is so. Since services are now already deep into production in awarded to foreign companies about the axle assembly at BMW or Porsche in Leipzig, and one can only natural to ask, is not really a core competence of the company, the master workers should meet. One thing is quite clear: work contracts, which are used in very large volumes, for example in the car industry in order to circumvent the high IG Metall rates. The earn then simply less money

“The gradual walkout to be attractive”

Schulz:. Gerhard Schröder, very close to the labor market policy also is indeed the pension policy, and also since the grand coalition has made this morning an important change publicly. Workers in Germany should be able to go into more flexible pension from next year. What exactly is planned as

Schröder: There are two points as important. Firstly: Those who want to retire early, for to the more attractive. An example: Someone goes to a partial pension with 63 to retire, in the partial retirement, still something worthy way but this. Since he had been paying large discounts when he earned more than 450 euros. This could then mean up to two thirds deductions. That will be less in the future. The maximum will then be 40 percent. It is the gradual premature recusal are also attractive. And secondly, it is to be attractive to work longer: On the one hand, that the companies pay lower social contributions, unemployment contributions are deleted. And on the other side are the workers future pay pension contributions, not only employers. But – and this is important – which then acts also receive an increased pension. That is, those who work longer, which then also increases so that his pension. Whether this is the big hit, you have to wait, but it’s a small step to make the transitions more flexible

Schulz:. information from our main studio of Gerhard Schröder. Thanks for that.

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