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Employer president: “Reich speaks plain text”
In view of the demographic change, Economic Minister Reiche demands that people work more. There is criticism from the social wing of her own party – but not from the economy.
Minister of Economics Katherina Reiche receives encouragement from employer president Rainer Dulger when she was advanced on the subject of working hours. “Economic Minister Reiche speaks plain text-and that is a good thing. Anyone who reacts with outrage now refuses to reality,” said Dulger of the German Press Agency. The CDU politician calls for a comprehensive reform agent that also includes the social security systems.
“This shows that the rendezvous with reality has started in the federal government. 50 percent social security contribution is not a promise, but a warning signal,” said Dulger. Anyone who continues to put their heads into the sand in view of the demographic development will fail to take responsibility towards coming generations. “Germany has to work more again so that our prosperity will still exist tomorrow,” warned Dulger.
Reiche: “We have to work more and longer”
Reiche said in the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” that the Germans were supposed to work more and longer. “In any case, it cannot go well in the long run that we only work two thirds of our adult life and retire a third,” said Reiche. Unfortunately, too long, too long for demographic reality. “We have to work more and longer,” said Reiche. There are many employees in physically exhausting professions – but also many who wanted to and could work longer. Criticism of their statements came from unions and the CDU social wing.
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Source: Stern
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