Labor market: Employers criticize the government plans

Labor market: Employers criticize the government plans

Labor market
Employers criticize the government’s plans






The cabinet today deals with the planned tariff loyalty law. The employers are upset. Support comes from the unions.

Employer President Rainer Dulger criticizes the federal government’s plans that companies will have to pay their employees in the future if the federal government orders. The tariff loyalty law is a “compulsory tariff law” and should not come in this way, Dulger told the German Press Agency. The German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which refers to a high bureaucratic effort, sees it similarly. The IG Metall union, on the other hand, supports the project and calls for implementation without loopholes.



The cabinet now wants to get the draft of a tariff loyalty law. In the case of federal public contracts of 50,000 euros, companies should have to grant a fee, Christmas bonus, vacations and rest periods as in industry -customary collective agreements. The project from the coalition agreement will be implemented. The goal is a higher collective bargaining.


Dulger, the President of the Federal Association of the German Employers’ Associations, said: “This has nothing to do with real faithfulness – because loyalty requires voluntariness, not state compulsion.” The draft from the Ministry of Labor is exactly the opposite of bureaucracy dismantling. “The award in public space becomes even more complicated. The law must not come like this.” Bureaucratic reduction needs confidence in the economy and the forces of the market, said Dulger.




Law “must be consistent”


The IG Metall Chairman Christiane Benner, on the other hand, kept: “It is good and correct that the tariff loyalty law comes. But it has to be consistent. That means there must be no exceptions, delays or thresholds that make employers possible to withdraw from the law.”


It referred the planned billion dollar investments of the federal government into the infrastructure. “It is therefore only decent and also ensures fair competition if there are clear rules for the payment of the people who repair our bridges, expand our rails, equip our schools and daycare centers that provide materials for it,” said Benner. IG Metall criticizes that the procurement of the Bundeswehr should be excluded from the tariff loyalty law.

DIHK: “Additional bureaucratic ballast”





The German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) appeals to the Federal Government to drop the planned tariff loyalty law. “The tariff loyalty law goes in the completely wrong direction, it counteracts the common goal of economic relaxation,” said Dihk President Peter Adrian of the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung”.

If 500 billion euros are to be invested in infrastructure with the special fund, the public sector must be inexpensive. However, the tariff loyalty law increases the bureaucratic effort and prevents the efficient use of the funds through the public sector. “It would be necessary to relieve relief law and not an additional bureaucratic ballast,” said Adrian.

dpa

Source: Stern

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