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The federal government and the SPD in the early hours of Monday after nearly nine weeks of negotiations on a reform the Hartz IV legislation agreed to include a two-stage increase in the monthly standard rates by a total of eight euros. If one looks closely at the agreement and expects that long ago adopted cuts in long-term unemployed, however, is the so-called compromise, a further social cuts for those affected.
The welfare organization called the haggling "the most pathetic farce that has seen the German social policy ever". The outrage that speaks of this is more than understandable. But the compromise is far more than a farce. SPD and the federal government have made it abundantly clear that they are prepared to the billion cost of the financial and economic crisis on the working class and the weakest part to pass that nearly five million Hartz IV recipients and about two million children.
government and the SPD have agreed that retroactive effect of the monthly standard rate for adults by 1 January 2011 at five euros to 364 euros rise. Early next year it should then give further three euros. The standard rates for children remain unchanged at 215 € (under 6 years), 251 € (6 to 13 years) and 287 € (14 to 18 years). The adopted rule-set reduction for severely disabled people living together with other family members in need of a community of 359 to 287 € will not be revoked but only "tested".
The court has over a year required by his sentence by law a revision of rates by the end of 2010. The arbitrary setting of the standard rates for adults and especially children, which was previously calculated as a percentage of standard rate of adults was unconstitutional and must give way to a transparent and comprehensible calculation. SPD and the federal government have now agreed on it, just not to do that.
The newly-discovered "compromise" is not the result of a profound and real determination of the poverty level, but the express will of all parties, social benefits for the poorest zusammenzustreichen. The calculation basis of the current rule sets is no less arbitrary than the previous one.
Among many other shenanigans the federal government has about the subsistence allowance of not more like before the consumption expenditure of the poorest 20 percent of households, but the bottom 15 percent. But this causes a lowering of the standard rate levels by more than 17 € compared to the previous procedure. The rationale of government: The calculation on the basis of 20 percent was too expensive.
The SPD had insisted in the negotiations to a minimum wage scheme. Starting in May it is now in the temporary and agency industry a new, legally minimum wage set type, are also to minimum wages in the private security sector and in further education sector are authentic. A noticeable improvement to the 900,000 temporary workers and 300,000 employees in the other two areas will mean but little. An equal payments of rental and permanent staff was in fact expressly agreed.
The Business Week commented that part of the compromise, "The employment agency can breathe again." In the future, their employees are in western Germany will receive at least EUR 7.60 per hour, € 6.65 in the east. These minimum wages are even lower than that of businesses and Unions in the Treaty, which establishes minimum wage. Employers and unions had agreed to on 1 introduce a minimum wage in May 2011 from 7.79 € 6.89 € in the west and the east.
the legally established minimum wage for meets the requirements of business organizations. The President of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA), Dieter Hundt, the Federal Government has invited last year to declare the minimum wage in the temporary employment industry for legally binding. Hundt said then: "We [need] the legislature to extend the minimum wage on foreign suppliers of temporary workers." Because in May, the German labor market for Eastern European EU states will be opened. The industry is therefore concerned with their own weapons - to be beaten - low wages.
Werner Stolze, Chief Executive of the temporary employment-employers' association IGZ welcomed, so the compromise: "With the agreement of a minimum wage policy has set a very important signal on the way to fair competition in the temporary employment industry."
Another aspect of the agreement concerns the local authorities. You receive from now 1.6 billion euros per year by the federal government for overspending in the course of the education package. This also included € 400 million to schools, day care center and to subsidize daycare lunch or to go to more school social workers. From 2014, subsidies to 1.5 billion euros a year will be reduced.
Similarly, the federal government takes over 2014 expenditures of municipalities for basic security in old age, currently 3.5 billion euros annually. This gets the federal government billions but back of the unemployed, since they are the budget of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) removed. This anticipation of a deficit of 9 billion euros by 2014. It is anticipated that this hole will be filled by further reductions. Already shortened the federal government in Budget 2011 well over two billion euros just by the removal of pension contributions Parental allowance and transitional surcharges for long-term unemployed.
The agreement in the early hours of Monday was preceded by a week long disgusting spectacle. The negotiators inside the government and the SPD, Labour Minister von der Leyen (CDU) and the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Social Affairs Party vice-chair Manuela Schwesig came to an agreement. In opinion polls, interviews and letters to the media many expressed their growing discontent with the Hartz-IV protracted negotiations.
Shortly before the Senate elections in Hamburg took over the then Prime Minister Kurt Beck (SPD, Rhineland-Palatinate), Wolfgang Böhmer (CDU, Saxony-Anhalt) and Horst Seehofer (CSU, Bavaria) negotiations and urged their parties to it, but yet to reach a quick agreement. Compared to the Süddeutsche Zeitung warned Böhmer, if no solution is found, "it damages the whole of politics". Also urged representatives of the local prime minister, to accept the offer of federal able to take basic security in old age.
The three prime ministers agreed then the so-called step solution, which typically set at eight, instead of only five euros, it is increased in two margins. The group had previously been of Union and FDP equally fiercely rejected.
The massive defeat the CDU in Hamburg, where the ruling party lost almost half of the votes and import their worst result in history, has finally contributed to the agreement on election night. Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) was also satisfied with the result, as SPD leader, Sigmar Gabriel.
Green left at the last minute negotiations on the grounds that the new rule set is not likely to be constitutional. The Greens have called for a rule set in the amount of 370 €.
The criticism of the Left Party was and is completely hollow. Like the Greens, who played in the introduction of Hartz IV, a key role, directed the criticism of Left, however, that the current rule set not having re-examined before the Constitutional Court was holding.
Although the Left Party, the weeks of wrangling criticized for increasing the standard rate by a total of 8 euros, while the same parties would have needed only a week to save 480 billion euros to banks. But she kept secret that just played the Left an important role in the billions to rescue banks and speculators in a hurry to whip through parliament.
Because if even one group would have voted against the emergency procedure, it would burst. The former group chairman Gregor Gysi and Oskar Lafontaine had their assent to the Chancellor Summary proceedings in person assured.
Just as then, all parliamentary parties had agreed that the billion-dollar bank rescue package through parliament to whip, so now all agree that the working class should pay for it. The Left Party sees it as their task to cover this policy from the left and to avoid "social unrest".
The fact that the cuts were not the last in the wake of the Hartz IV reform, to the Süddeutsche Zeitung pointed out clearly once again in a comment. Under the heading "disappointment must be" author Marc Beise shed a few crocodile tears over the "no fault hard lives of Hartz IV recipients "then comes on quickly to the core issue:" Improvements are not in it "The welfare state has long since reached its limits.. "Who would see social benefits, is disappointed, of course. Unfortunately, he will be disappointed often in the coming years. "
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