Sunday, 8 July 2012

Trade unions worried about attractiveness

The unions fear the southwest in the face of the savings proposals from the Government to the attractiveness of public service. Primarily criticized the planned lower entrance salary.

The unions fear the southwest in the face of the savings proposals of the state government to increase the attractiveness of public service. Another criticism is mainly thought to be lower entrance salary for newly recruited civil servants in the higher and higher service.

This is a risk that the public service could gain some in the administration and for senior positions in the fire service professionals no longer, said the vice-State leader of Verdi, Dagmar Schorsch Brandt. The Union for Education and Science (GEW) predicts increased teacher shortage.

Schorsch Brandt said: "It is absurd to be paid in tariffs of municipalities for specific groups of employees per month up to 1000 € as a labor market allowance, must officials give but three years at the starting grade for a total number of 1,000 euros." DGB also state leader Nicholas Landgraf said: "Whoever wants to attract good people for public service, lay in income and must not be cut."

Trade unions young people suffer from insecure jobs

One in three under 35 without permanent employment

- Insecure and precarious employment of young people, according to a survey by the trade union IG Metall is a growing problem. "They experience unemployment, involuntary job changes and time limitations as a great burden," said the deputy chairman of the union, Detlef Wetzel, on Thursday at the presentation of the study in Berlin. Contrary to the claims management company, the economic situation of young workers with the recovery from the crisis of 2009 have not improved.

A representative survey on behalf of IG Metall had shown that today 32 percent of workers under 35 years in interim or temporary work, temporary employment agency or employed by the subsidized employment, as ABM or SAM sites are. In the first such survey in 2009, the rate was 28 percent. Among the workers and employees beyond 34 years, the proportion had declined, however, from 16 to eleven percent.

Work contracts were increasingly used by companies to make uncertain and precarious employment, Wetzel said. "There are millions who are employed under these conditions. In Germany, too many people do not have good future prospects," said Wetzel. Retrieved from "Spanish conditions," the young people in Germany are still far away.