Grüne on work and social affairs

The Greens want to expand Welcome Centers into contact points for immigrant skilled workers and returnees and to recognize foreign qualifications faster. Refugees are to have secure residence status while in vocational training. Schools and universities are also to work more closely with companies.

The state lacks many skilled workers. The Greens want to give more help to people from abroad and to people moving back. Refugees in job training should be allowed to stay safely. Schools and companies should work together more closely.

Welcome Centers are to offer a comparably high level of service across the state, and additional training to fill qualification gaps is to be supported. Extra state language and integration courses are meant to fill gaps in federal funding. Procedures for the Spurwechsel (switching from the asylum track to residence for training or work) are to be finished in time before training starts. Partnerships between schools and companies are to help with early career orientation, and universities and technical schools are to network more with regional firms.

The Greens reject mandatory service for young people and want to strengthen voluntary service instead. There are to be more placements and significantly higher pay so that such service does not depend on family income.

The Greens do not want mandatory service for young people. They want to strengthen voluntary service. There should be more places. Volunteers should get much more money.

Placements are to be expanded in the voluntary social year (FSJ), the voluntary ecological year (FÖJ), and the Federal Volunteer Service. Providers and host organizations are to receive more funding. The services are to be better recognized as a time for education and orientation, and schools and vocational schools are to offer more information and advice about them. The platform acknowledges that some of the demands concern the federal government.

The Greens want to fund Housing First models across the state. Homeless people would first be given a home of their own, because the platform sees stable housing as the basis for social participation, health and integration.

Some people have no home. The Greens want to give them a home of their own first. This is called Housing First. After that, other problems are easier to solve.

Housing First means that a home of one's own comes at the start of support and is not tied to preconditions. The state is to fund such models statewide. Permanent housing for homeless people is to be provided together with municipalities, housing companies and social service providers.

The Greens want to treat poverty as a structural problem rather than a personal failure. A regular state report on poverty and wealth is to serve as the basis for targeted measures. Neighborhood meeting places in every municipality are also planned.

The Greens want to fight poverty in the state. A regular report should show where poverty and wealth are. Fitting help should follow from it. Every town should get a neighborhood meeting place.

Data from the report would be used to derive regional measures on mobility, housing, education, work, food and energy. A report on children and young people would become part of it. The program promises easy-access education, culture and sports offerings in all regions, affordable housing and more advice services. Every municipality and city district would get a meeting place for events and shared work. People under 25 or over 65 would attend events there for free, and clubs could use the rooms for a very small fee.

The Greens want more people to find and keep work. They plan a state program for the long-term unemployed, early and binding access to language support, and programs for training and re-entry. The public sector is to stop using fixed-term contracts without a specific reason.

Not everyone has the same chance of finding work. The Greens want a program for people who have been jobless for a long time. Immigrants should be able to learn German early. The state as an employer should not limit jobs in time without a reason.

Language support would be available early and on a binding basis, especially for people with a migration background, to ease their way into society and work. Targeted programs would support entry, training, re-entry and career changes for people with and without disabilities. The Greens want to push for a statutory minimum wage that protects against poverty to apply in sheltered workshops for people with disabilities as well, along with a fundamental reform of pay there. The program names insecure jobs and a large low-wage sector as poverty risks.

The Greens want to found a state competence center that sets uniform standards for Eingliederungshilfe (integration assistance for people with disabilities). They also want a disability commissioner for the state and fewer barriers in everyday life.

The Greens want better support for people with disabilities. A new center should make sure the same rules for help apply across the state. There should be a commissioner for people with disabilities. Government offices should offer help in easy language.

The planned "Landeskompetenzzentrum Bedarfsermittlung" (state competence center for needs assessment) is to have an advisory board and ensure that municipal integration assistance works to the same standards everywhere. A dedicated commissioner's post is to be created to implement the UN Disability Rights Convention and the state's disability equality law. Together with municipalities, the state is to work toward inclusive cities. Sessions of the state parliament are to be interpreted into sign language, and help in easy language is to be offered for dealing with authorities.