BSW on work and social affairs

The BSW wants to implement the Bundesteilhabegesetz (Federal Participation Act) and tailor benefits more closely to the individual. The federal government should cover the extra costs to relieve municipalities. Daycare, schools, youth services, and the labor market should become inclusive.

People with disabilities should be able to take part everywhere. The BSW wants to carry out the law on this. The federal government should pay the extra costs. Daycare, schools, and jobs should be open to all.

As in nursing care, more skilled workers should be recruited for integration assistance, and new job profiles for assistance services should be developed. By the time the inclusive Social Code Book VIII takes effect on January 1, 2028, the BSW wants the groundwork for inclusive child and youth services in place. Daycare centers including after-school care and the education system should be geared to children with special needs. The labor market should also become inclusive.

The BSW wants municipalities to stop closing social facilities and to open new ones. It also rejects further job cuts in public administration and calls for more staff. The party says this would strengthen social cohesion, especially in structurally weak areas.

The BSW wants to keep meeting places, pools and sports centers open. New ones should be built too. Public offices, schools and care homes should get more staff. Towns should get long-term money for this.

The platform opposes further job cuts in public administration and calls for more staff in schools, hospitals, nursing homes and public offices. Municipalities would receive long-term funding for their so-called voluntary services, such as youth clubs and family and community centers in rural areas and smaller towns. The BSW demands considerably more money for child and youth services, school social work, women's shelters and housing for homeless people. Funding for everyday helpers for older people would improve, and a pilot project would bring unemployed people into such jobs.

The BSW wants to make vocational training more financially attractive so that the need for skilled workers is met by young people at home. It rejects worldwide labor immigration as a solution, arguing that it pushes down wages and harms the countries of origin.

The BSW wants trainees to earn more money. This should get more young people into training. The party does not want to bring in workers from all over the world. It says this pushes wages down.

Trainees would get higher pay and prospects for career advancement. Vocational qualifications, master craftsman courses and retraining programs would receive more funding and promotion where they match labor demand and applicants' aptitude. The platform argues that immigration from around the world lowers wages and drains workers from their home countries.

The BSW wants collective agreements to apply to all employers in far more industries in Saxony. Through the Bundesrat, it wants to lower the threshold for this in the federal Posted Workers Act.

A collective agreement sets pay and working hours. The BSW wants it to cover all firms in more industries. A federal law should change for this. Saxony should propose that in the Bundesrat.

Declaring an agreement generally binding means it also covers firms and workers not bound by it. The BSW wants a Bundesrat initiative to make clear in the Arbeitnehmer-Entsendegesetz (Posted Workers Act) that a 50 percent organization rate in the bargaining area is not required. The program also wants to fund skills training together with vocational schools and universities, integrate workers from abroad, and secure housing for apprentices when planning vocational school locations.