CDU on work and social affairs

The CDU wants to promote modern forms of work, especially outside the big cities, and to see co-working spaces set up across the state. Employees in rural areas are meant to save commuting time this way.

The CDU wants new places to work in rural areas. People can work there without driving to their company. This is called co-working. It saves people time on the way to work.

The spaces are meant to allow remote work that does not take place in a person's own home. The platform links this to the goal of letting people in Saxony work more flexibly, with more mobility and more control over their own work. The CDU also commits to the partnership between unions and employers and supports collective bargaining coverage and strong worker participation in companies.

The CDU rejects measures that reduce working time, including five days of Bildungsurlaub (paid educational leave). It commits to a 40-hour week and points to the state of the labor market.

The CDU does not want people to work less. It supports 40 hours of work per week. It is against five days off for training. This is called educational leave. The CDU says there are already too few workers.

The platform sees no room for lowering general working hours any further. It justifies this with strong demand for skilled and other workers and with population trends. The CDU also wants to study why sick leave is rising and respond by removing misguided incentives and expanding workplace health management. It keeps the Weiterbildungscheck, a voucher for job-related training.

The CDU wants to push at the federal level for replacing Bürgergeld (citizen's income) with a new basic income support. It is to follow the principle of “Fordern und Fördern” (demand and support).

Bürgergeld is money from the state for people with no income. The CDU wants to replace it. There should be a new basic support instead. The state should help people but also ask something of them.

The demand is aimed at federal politics because Bürgergeld is a federal law. The platform ties it to the goal that people secure their own living through work. The CDU also criticizes rising social contributions under the federal coalition government and calls for more take-home pay. In addition, it wants the contribution rate for long-term care insurance to be the same across Germany, while the Day of Repentance and Prayer stays a public holiday in Saxony.

The CDU wants to increase the participation of people with disabilities in working life. To do so, the Integrationsamt (integration office) and specialist integration services are to carry more weight, and workplaces are to become easier to access.

The CDU wants more people with disabilities to be able to work. Certain offices and services help them with this. These offices should become more important. Workplaces and information should be easier to reach.

The integration office is part of the Kommunaler Sozialverband Sachsen (KSV), a municipal social welfare association. The CDU wants to raise the profile and standing of its work and that of the specialist integration services. It particularly wants to support low-barrier access to the workplace and to information. The platform refers here to the Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz, Germany's accessibility law.

The CDU wants to strengthen youth work and youth welfare services, give older people more ways to take part in society and working life, and remove barriers for people with disabilities. It bases this on demographic change and cohesion between the generations.

The CDU wants to support young people better. For this there should be good youth work. Older people should be able to keep taking part, also at work. Obstacles for people with disabilities should go.

The Jugendpauschale funding guideline (a lump-sum youth grant) is to be further developed so local youth welfare providers can stabilize and expand their services. The CDU wants to strengthen social work, multi-professional teams and democratic participation by children and young people. Older people should be able to work beyond age limits if they wish and get help to live independently, for example through age-appropriate housing and affordable assistance. The party says it will oppose age discrimination. Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is to continue.

The CDU wants to create a "Service for Saxony" aimed at everyone who finishes school in Saxony. It is meant to let young people contribute to society while gaining first experience of working life.

The CDU wants to start a service for Saxony. It is meant for young people after school. They can do something for others there. They also get to know jobs.

The platform describes the service as a chance to get involved in society in a practical way. It is to take place between finishing school and starting vocational training or university. Participants are to gain work experience and get to know social professions. The CDU cites the existing "Sachsensommer" program as a first step in this direction.