What do the parties in Baden-Württemberg say on work and social affairs?

The AfD wants to bring back highly qualified people who have left and set up a dedicated state agency for this. It would take the place of the existing state agency for skilled-worker immigration.

Many well-trained people are leaving the state. The AfD wants to bring them back. A new agency should do this. It should replace the agency for bringing in skilled workers from abroad.

The AfD supports a community service year to be completed by every school leaver. It is meant to introduce young people to social tasks and spark interest in fields such as nursing.

The AfD wants a service year for everyone after school. Young people should help society during it. They can serve in care work, the fire service or the army. This also lets them get to know jobs.

The AfD wants to launch a reform of basic income support through the Bundesrat (the chamber of the states). People who can work and still receive Bürgergeld (citizen's income) after half a year would have to do community service. In the platform's view, Bürgergeld gives too little incentive to take a job.

The AfD wants to change Bürgergeld. That is the basic welfare payment. People who can work must do community work after six months. People who refuse work several times get less money. The state will pay only 90 percent of housing costs.

The CDU wants to push for maximum working hours to be set per week rather than per day. It justifies this with a changed world of work and the need to balance family and career. It is also open to more part-time models.

Today there is a limit on working hours per day. The CDU wants a limit per week instead. People could then plan their work more freely. This should help parents. The CDU also likes more part-time work.

The Greens want to give apprentices a grant toward their driver's license, split evenly between the state and the training company. This is meant to ease entry into occupations where a license is often expected and help fill open apprenticeship slots.

Many companies cannot find apprentices. The Greens want to give apprentices money for a driver's license. The state pays one half. The company pays the other half.

The Greens want to strengthen works councils and employee co-determination and oppose union busting. They also want to act against abuse of temporary agency work and service contracts and achieve equal pay for women.

The Greens want good and fair work. Works councils should become stronger. No one should abuse temp work. Women should get the same pay for the same work.

The Greens want to broaden the state law on collective-wage compliance and minimum wages in public contracts. The aim is to strengthen collective bargaining coverage and protect regional firms from undercutting bids, for example in construction.

The state gives contracts to companies. The Greens want these companies to pay fair wages. The minimum wage for such contracts should go up. The rules should apply to more contracts.

The Greens want to integrate people with disabilities more effectively into the regular labor market. Accommodations, certified partial qualifications and advantages for inclusive companies in public contracting are meant to help.

The Greens want more people with disabilities in regular jobs. They should get support to make up for disadvantages. Inclusive companies should get state contracts more often. Inclusion means everyone can take part.

The Greens want to provide more money for anti-poverty counseling and put the state's programs for the unemployed on a permanent footing. The goal is to move people into the regular labor market through training and coaching.

The Greens want to give better help to people without work. There should be more counseling for people in debt. People at risk of losing their home also get help. A state program for the unemployed should get permanent funding.

The Greens want to implement the Bundesteilhabegesetz (Federal Participation Act), which governs benefits for people with disabilities, in a simpler and more person-centered way. Routine reassessments of entitlements could be replaced by reviews triggered by a specific reason.

People with disabilities get help under a federal law. The Greens want to make the process simpler. Offices should not keep checking claims again and again. They should only check when there is a reason.

The Greens want to continue the state's continuing-education initiative and create a qualification income that lets working people take time off to learn. They justify this with changes in the world of work and the need to secure skilled labor.

The world of work is changing a lot. So the Greens want more further training. Workers should be able to take time off to learn. They should get money during that time.

The Greens want to give more support to the "Housing First" approach in order to reduce homelessness over the long term. Existing pilot projects are to continue permanently, and new locations are to receive money and advice.

Some people have no home. With "Housing First" they get a home first. Other help comes after that. The Greens want to offer this in more places. The state gives money and advice for it.

The Greens want people with disabilities or support needs to be able to choose freely how they live. To that end, inclusive and outpatient-supported forms of housing are to be expanded, suitable assistance secured and bureaucratic hurdles reduced.

People with disabilities should decide for themselves how they live. The Greens want to create more suitable housing for this. There should be good help in daily life. Applications should become simpler.

The Greens want to review the per-place funding for organizations running the Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr and Freiwilliges Ökologisches Jahr (voluntary social and ecological years) and give them planning certainty. A statewide advertising campaign for volunteer service is under consideration.

Young people can do a voluntary year. It is called FSJ or FÖJ. The Greens want to check how much money the providers get. Providers should be able to plan with confidence.

The Greens want to strengthen debt counseling and anti-poverty services, expand Housing First programs and prevent people from losing their homes. Child poverty is to be tackled with prevention networks, and a state initiative is to address loneliness.

Some people have debts or lose their homes. The Greens want to give them more help. Poor children are to get support early. The Greens also want to do something about loneliness.

The SPD wants to revise the state's law on collective-agreement compliance and minimum wages so that public contracts are awarded only on the basis of collective agreements. A separate minimum wage for public procurement would be added. It rejects privatizing public enterprises.

The state and towns give contracts to companies. The SPD wants these companies to pay union-negotiated wages. There should also be a minimum wage for such contracts. Public companies should not be sold.

The SPD wants to invest more in continuing education and skills, creating a 20-million-euro fund for employees of small and medium-sized businesses. Unskilled workers and the long-term unemployed would also receive training.

The SPD wants to spend more money on job training. A fund of 20 million euros should help workers in small and medium-sized companies. People without job training should also be able to learn. People in training should get financial help.

The SPD wants to create a permanent state labor market program, backed by law, to move the long-term unemployed into jobs with social insurance coverage. The subsidized 'social labor market' would be strengthened. Programs that help young people start their careers would be expanded.

Many people in the state have been out of work for a long time. The SPD wants a state program to get them jobs. A law should secure the program. Young people should also get more help starting work.

The SPD wants older people to have more say in political decisions at state and local level. A reduced-fare ticket for seniors in need and community buses are to improve mobility. A state strategy is to reduce loneliness in society.

Older people should have more say in politics. Poor seniors should get a cheap ticket for buses and trains. Rural areas should get more community buses. The SPD wants a plan against loneliness. There should be more places to meet.

The SPD wants targeted support for groups at risk of poverty, such as single parents, children and older people. All children are to get a state-funded lunch at daycare and school. The state is again to publish its own poverty and wealth report every five years.

The SPD wants less poverty in the state. All children should get a free lunch at daycare and school. The state should pay for the meals. There should be enough advice for people in debt. A report on poverty should come out every five years.

The SPD supports a right for young people to do voluntary service. The state is to increase its funding to make these programs more attractive. People doing voluntary service are to ride public transit for free.

Young people should have a right to do voluntary service. The state should give more money for it. Volunteers should ride buses and trains for free. There should be more places to serve.