Grüne on work and social affairs

The Greens want to fund meeting places such as libraries, youth clubs and village centers through a state program. A state action plan is to bundle and finance measures against loneliness.

The Greens want to keep meeting places and create new ones. These include libraries, youth clubs and village centers. The state should pay for this. A state plan should help against loneliness.

A state program is to support building and maintaining social spaces, and local social planning is to include them. Libraries are to become "public living rooms." In rural areas, village centers are to combine several services, such as a village shop, co-working, event rooms, car sharing and a charging station. Against loneliness the platform relies on neighborhood approaches such as outreach care for the elderly, mobility assistance and digital services. The stated reason is that loneliness makes people ill and isolation can foster radicalization.

The Greens want to expand the Budget für Ausbildung and Budget für Arbeit (training and work budgets) so that more people with disabilities can hold regular jobs. Fixed targets are to apply through 2031.

The Greens want more people with disabilities in regular jobs. There should be more money for training and work. There should be clear goals until 2031. The Greens want to talk with employers about prejudice.

The two budgets are support schemes that help people with disabilities train or work outside sheltered workshops. The Greens plan to coordinate with the "Inclusive Labor Market" network and employer associations to reduce reservations about hiring. The program also calls for equality at work and in the public sector and for removing structural disadvantages. Access to mainstream schools and the labor market should be open to everyone.

The Greens reject cuts to Eingliederungshilfe (integration assistance for people with disabilities) and want benefits tailored to the individual. Applications should be processed within three months at most, with digital support.

Integration assistance is support for people with disabilities. The Greens do not want cuts here. The support should fit each person. Offices should handle applications within three months.

The program sees implementing the new state framework agreement as a core task for the next government. The Greens want to promote provider budgets, which the agreement allows through an opening clause. They will watch the newly founded state office for social affairs, youth and health critically and expect more transparent and efficient procedures. Information about applications should no longer depend on the individual caseworker.

The Greens want to strengthen collective bargaining coverage through the state's law on wage compliance in public procurement and award public contracts only to companies paying fair wages. In the private sector, too, collective agreements and works councils are to become more common in order to fight low wages and in-work poverty.

The Greens want fair pay. The state should give contracts only to companies with fair pay. More companies should pay under union wage agreements. Such an agreement sets pay and hours for many workers. Workers should have more say in their companies.

Works councils are to be promoted above all in small and medium-sized companies. Women, single parents and part-time workers are meant to benefit most; flexible working-time models and more pay transparency are added. For single parents and people with career breaks, childcare, care services, counseling and return to work are to improve. Social professions are to be upgraded through better staffing ratios and help with refinancing union-scale wages in care and child-rearing work.

The Greens want a training guarantee so that every young person can start a qualified vocational training program. The long-term unemployed are to be brought into work more through subsidized employment, a tool the party says has been used too rarely so far.

The Greens want a guarantee for job training. Every young person should get a training place. People without work should be able to return step by step. There should be supported jobs for this.

Training and career choice are to be free of gender stereotypes so that young people have equal chances in all fields. Social labor markets, meaning publicly subsidized employment, are meant to let people re-enter work gradually after long unemployment. The platform wants to use this tool considerably more.