BSW on work and social affairs

The BSW wants to implement the Bundesteilhabegesetz (Federal Participation Act) and gear benefits for people with disabilities more closely to the individual. The federal government is to bear the extra costs to relieve municipalities. Daycare, schools, youth services and the labor market are to become inclusive.

People with disabilities should be able to take part everywhere. The BSW wants to put a law on this into practice. The federal government should pay the extra costs. Daycare, schools and jobs should be open to all. Doctors' offices should be reachable without steps.

The Federal Participation Act provides for a shift to person-centered benefits, which the BSW wants to advance. Child and youth services are to become inclusive, as are daycare centers including after-school care and the education system. In the labor market, public employers are to lead by example. The platform also demands that all medical practices be accessible without barriers.

The BSW wants a law for Brandenburg under which public contracts and subsidies go only to companies that pay collectively agreed wages. Through the Bundesrat, the statutory minimum wage should rise to at least 14 euros. The party points out that wages and collective bargaining coverage in Brandenburg are well below western German levels.

The BSW wants higher wages in Brandenburg. The state should give contracts only to companies that pay union-agreed wages. These are wages that unions and employers negotiate. The minimum wage should rise to at least 14 euros. Jobs in social care should be paid better.

According to the platform, only 19 percent of Brandenburg's companies are bound by collective agreements, and the average wage is more than 800 euros a month below that in western Germany. The BSW wants collective agreements declared generally binding in far more sectors and a higher minimum wage for public contracts. Companies that receive subsidies should pay at least the collectively agreed wage. A Bundesrat initiative is planned for a minimum wage of at least 14 euros. Social professions should be upgraded financially and politically, which the party says would also narrow the pay gap between women and men; the platform also criticizes infrequent workplace safety inspections.