What do the parties in Hamburg say on work and social affairs?

The AfD wants to provide city-owned micro-apartments for a transitional period to homeless people from the Hamburg area and move the long-term homeless into city-owned housing. Homeless foreigners, by contrast, are to be consistently returned to their home countries. The winter emergency program would remain for homeless people from elsewhere.

More and more people in Hamburg have no home. The AfD wants to give homeless locals small apartments. The city would own these apartments. Homeless foreigners should go back to their home countries. Others can still use the winter shelter program.

The CDU commits to a strong welfare state that aims at overcoming poverty and helps those in need in a targeted way rather than spreading aid broadly. The state is to act firmly against abuse of social benefits. Authorities are to decide faster, and service providers are to get more planning security.

The CDU wants a strong welfare state. Help should go to people who really need it. The CDU wants to act firmly against benefit fraud. Offices should handle applications faster.

The CDU wants to favor bundled services in the neighborhoods over centralized facilities and encourage more civic involvement under the banner “Nachbarschaft verbindet” (neighborhood connects). Volunteer work is to be recognized and promoted because, in the platform's view, it strengthens cohesion and relieves the state.

The CDU wants to strengthen services right in the neighborhoods. People should do more for their neighborhood. New advice offices should help with this. The CDU wants to promote volunteer work.

The CDU wants to enable older people to live actively and independently: through fewer barriers, measures against loneliness, digital education alongside continued offline services, and an improved “Hamburger Hausbesuch” (home visit program). Working beyond retirement age is also to become easier.

The CDU wants to make life easier for older people. There should be fewer obstacles in daily life. Older people should get help with computers and phones. Services without the internet should stay. The CDU also wants to do something about loneliness.

The CDU wants more and longer-running work opportunities for the long-term unemployed and adequate funding for the subsidized labor market. People at risk of becoming unable to work are to get fast help from a single source.

Some people have been out of work for a very long time. The CDU wants more work programs for them. These programs should last longer. Social projects should get money for a longer time.

The CDU wants to examine whether women's shelters can be expanded and specialized, because in its view there are too few places. Debt counseling and suicide prevention are also to be expanded.

Women's shelters have too few places. The CDU wants to check if more places are possible. People with debts should get more advice. There should also be more help to prevent suicide.

The CDU wants to actively advise and support people without housing and keep winter emergency shelters open during the day in severe cold. Social and housing policy are to work together to secure enough housing for people in need.

Some people have no home. The CDU wants to help them more. In winter, emergency shelters should also stay open during the day when it is very cold. No one should freeze to death on the street.

Together with business and welfare associations, the CDU wants to draw up a plan that prepares Hamburg for an aging population. It is meant to set goals and measures for all areas affected.

Hamburg will soon have more older people. Many workers will retire. The CDU wants to make a plan for this. Companies and welfare groups should help write it.

The Greens want all vocational trainees in Hamburg to be able to use buses and trains for free. In addition, far more affordable housing for trainees is to be created.

Trainees should ride buses and trains for free. So far this applies only to school students. The Greens also want many more cheap homes for trainees. Then young people from elsewhere can train in Hamburg too.

The Greens want social benefits to be provided quickly, in a friendly way and without high hurdles. A platform with an app is to bundle all benefits and discounts so that no one loses entitlements out of ignorance, shame or because of complicated procedures.

The Greens want people to get social benefits more easily. An app should show all kinds of help. Offices should work faster. People should be able to do everything without the internet too. Advice centers should get more money.

The Greens want to help social service providers find and pay for premises and declare this a public task. The contact points for self-help groups are also to be financially secured.

The Greens want to help social organizations. The city should help them find and pay for rooms. Self-help groups should also get reliable funding.

The Greens want to develop the emergency overnight shelter system further and create smaller, decentralized shelters. These are also to be open to people with no entitlement to social benefits or without regular residence status.

The Greens want more small emergency shelters in the city. There should be special offers for women and young people. People without residence papers should also be allowed to sleep there. Help on the street should get better.

The Greens want people with mental illness to be better able to stay in or return to work. More counseling is meant to prevent those affected from being pushed into early retirement benefits.

People with mental illness should be able to keep working. The Greens want to help them return to their jobs. There should be more counseling. Then fewer sick people have to retire early.

The Greens want more reliable career paths at universities and research institutions. This includes additional permanent positions alongside professorships, more tenure track, and bringing student employees into the states' collective wage agreement.

Many people in academia only have short-term contracts. The Greens want to create more permanent jobs. Students who work at universities should also get better rules. A collective wage agreement should cover them.

The Greens want to give more support to (solo) self-employed people and micro-businesses. They should get easier access to funding and public contracts, and the city should pay fees that cover living costs and social security.

Many people in Hamburg work for themselves and alone. The Greens want to help them. They should get funding and city contracts more easily. The city should pay them fair fees. They should be able to live on that.

The Greens want to amend Hamburg's public procurement and collective-pay law so that being bound by a collective agreement becomes a criterion for public contracts. Staff at publicly funded organizations and teachers at adult education centers are also to be paid at collectively agreed rates.

The city gives contracts to companies. The Greens want these companies to pay union-agreed wages. A collective agreement sets wages for a whole industry. Companies that break the rule get no more contracts. This should also apply to groups that get city money.

The Greens want an inclusive labor market and plan to draw up a strategy for it through 2030 together with those affected. Work in sheltered workshops for people with disabilities is to be better paid and eventually turned into jobs with full social insurance.

People with disabilities should find work more easily. The Greens want to make a plan for this through 2030. The people affected should have a say. Sheltered workshops should pay better. Big companies should pay more if they hire too few disabled people.

The Greens support in principle a 32-hour week over four days and want to test it in a pilot project. In the party's view, shorter hours at the same pay could move more people to take up work or work full time.

The Greens like the idea of a four-day work week. That would be 32 hours of work. They want to test it first in a trial. They will look at health and output, for example. They also want to support flexible working hours.

The Greens want to promote the founding of works councils and staff councils and have obstruction of co-determination prosecuted more firmly. In the party's view, these bodies secure employees' democratic participation, and few workers in Hamburg are represented by them so far.

Works councils speak for the workers in a company. Hamburg has few of them. The Greens want more works councils. Anyone who blocks a works council election should be prosecuted. Prosecutors should get more resources for this.

The Greens want to provide more staff for workplace safety inspections and enlarge the city's occupational health service. People with mental illness are to be kept in work through counseling, therapy places and structured return-to-work programs.

The Greens want more safety at work. The city should inspect companies more often. It needs more staff for that. People with mental illness should be able to stay in their jobs. There should be more counseling and therapy for them.

The Greens want to develop and widen publicly subsidized employment for the long-term unemployed. At the federal level, the current time limits on this support are to be dropped so that more people can be employed for longer.

Some people are out of work for a long time. There are subsidized jobs for them. The Greens want more of these jobs. Support should be allowed to last longer than five years. This helps more people get back to work.

The Greens want to develop Hamburg into an "inclusion metropolis" where everyone can take part on equal terms. To that end, barriers in public buildings are to be removed quickly and the say of people with disabilities strengthened.

The Greens want people with disabilities to be able to join in everywhere. Public buildings should no longer have barriers. There should be money for this. People with disabilities should have more say. Computer programs should translate texts into easy language.

The Greens want to protect workers from abroad, including those without papers, from exploitation. In the platform's view, fair working conditions must not depend on a person's origin.

The Greens want to protect workers from abroad better. This includes people without papers. There should be more advice in many languages. The city should check that the minimum wage is paid.

The Greens want to give better help to heavily indebted people and expand debt counseling. More people are to get free or cheaper advice, and the financial and debt collection industries are to share in the added costs.

The Greens want to help people with large debts better. More people should get free or cheap advice. Banks and debt collectors should help pay for it. Debt collectors are companies that collect unpaid bills.

The Left wants Hamburg to reintroduce a state minimum wage, set at 15 euros an hour immediately. It would apply to city-owned enterprises, including sheltered workshops for people with disabilities. Bremen serves as the model; the party considers the federal minimum wage too low to prevent poverty.

The Left wants a separate minimum wage for Hamburg. It should be 15 euros an hour. It should apply in companies owned by the city. It should also apply in workshops for people with disabilities. Later the minimum wage should rise along with union pay scales.

The Left wants public contracts to go only to companies that comply with the applicable industry collective agreements. Business subsidies would also be tied to collective bargaining coverage and other criteria of good work. The aim is higher coverage; the party points to the EU target of 80 percent.

The city awards many contracts to companies. The Left wants only companies with a collective agreement to get contracts. A collective agreement sets pay and working hours for many workers. Subsidies should also go only to such companies. The city should check labor rules more strictly.

The Left wants a guarantee of vocational training and a levy paid by all companies that benefits those that train apprentices. Anyone leaving school with a diploma would have a right to a training place. It also calls for a continuing-education plan and a transformation council for industrial restructuring.

The Left wants everyone with a school diploma to get a training place. All companies should pay into a fund. Companies that train apprentices get money from the fund. People without a diploma should get preparation for training.

The Left wants Hamburg to push at the federal level for an end to sanctions in Bürgergeld (citizen's income). It favors a minimum income without sanctions, supportive services and social participation. In its view, the welfare state cannot work through cuts and sanctions.

People who get Bürgergeld (citizen's income) must follow rules. If not, the office cuts their money. This is called a sanction. The Left wants to end these cuts. Hamburg should push for this at the federal level. Every neighborhood should have social services.

The Left wants to stop utilities from cutting off electricity or gas over unpaid bills and to set up a hardship fund for energy debts. People on benefits would also have more costs covered and get better service at public offices.

The Left wants to end energy shutoffs. A shutoff means the company turns off power or gas. A fund would help people with energy debts. Offices would cover more costs and give better advice.

The Left wants to introduce a Hamburg Pass and a KiJu-Karte (children and youth card). They would give benefit recipients and all children and young people free access to transit, culture, education, sports and leisure offerings.

The Left wants a Hamburg Pass and a card for children and teens. Many things would then be free. Examples are buses and trains, pools and museums. The pass is for people who get benefits.

The Left calls for an anti-poverty strategy that involves all government departments. Every policy decision would be checked for its effect on poverty.

The Left wants a plan against poverty. All city departments would take part. The city would check every decision: Does it make people poorer? A special office would carry out the plan.

The Left wants to set up city-run care centers offering affordable care for children, older people, and people needing long-term care. Care work is to be organized collectively and shared equally between genders, and the pay gap between women and men closed.

The city should build its own care centers. They look after children, old people, and people who need care. This should be good and affordable. Women should earn as much as men. The city should check this regularly.

The Left wants to ease the financial burden on seniors, including a Deutschlandticket (nationwide transit pass) for 29 euros from age 65 and a local supplement to basic income support in old age. Well-equipped meeting places and neighborhood centers are to be set up in all parts of the city.

People 65 and older should get the Deutschlandticket for 29 euros. That is a transit pass for all of Germany. Older people on basic income support should get more money. Retirees should get into museums for free. Every neighborhood should have meeting places for seniors.

The SPD wants a Hamburg rule under which important public contracts go only to companies with collective bargaining agreements. It also plans a campaign for good work and fair rules for platform work.

The city awards contracts to companies. The SPD wants important contracts to go only to firms with a union wage agreement. Such an agreement sets pay and hours. This should mean fair pay for workers.

The SPD wants to keep pursuing undeclared work, exploitation of workers and social insurance fraud. It calls for enough customs staff and regular joint inspections with city agencies.

Some companies have people work off the books or exploit them. The SPD wants to keep fighting this. Customs should have enough staff. The city should often inspect together with customs.

The SPD wants to expand job-related training close to the labor market and draw up a Hamburg continuing education strategy. A transformation council and a professorship in work science are to accompany changes in the world of work.

Work is changing. People often need to learn new things. The SPD wants more training and retraining options. It wants to make a plan for Hamburg for this.

The SPD wants the Jugendberufsagentur (youth employment agency) to support young people up to age 28 instead of only 25. It plans an initiative in the Bundesrat for this. Services for young people with disabilities are also to be bundled there.

The youth employment agency helps young people start a career. So far this applies up to age 25. The SPD wants to raise the limit to 28. Young people with disabilities should also find help there.

The SPD wants to continue subsidized employment for the long-term unemployed in the regular labor market and bundle labor market support in a joint program. Single parents, parents and women active as volunteers are to receive targeted training.

Some people have been out of work for a very long time. The SPD wants to offer them subsidized jobs in companies. Single parents should also get special help. There should be courses in reading, writing and German.

The SPD wants to further improve employment conditions at universities and strengthen mid-level academic staff. At the federal level it advocates a collective agreement for student employees.

People who work at universities should have better conditions. There should be new jobs for lecturers. They mainly teach. Students with a job at the university should get a union wage agreement.

The SPD wants to create more housing for people without a home or in precarious housing and expand support based on the "Housing First" approach. Prevention, debt counseling and street social work are to be strengthened.

Some people have no home. The SPD wants to build more housing for them. They should get a home first and then further help. Every district should offer debt counseling.

The SPD wants to remove barriers in buildings, in language and in the city's digital services, and to involve people with disabilities in decisions. Workers in sheltered workshops are to receive wages and basic income support from a single source.

People with disabilities should be able to take part everywhere. The SPD wants to remove barriers in buildings and online. There should be more texts in easy language. Workers in sheltered workshops should get their money more easily. Moving to other jobs should become easier.

The SPD wants to create a senior station or senior center in every district to bundle advice services. A discounted Deutschlandticket for older people and alternative forms of housing are meant to support independent living in old age.

Older people should be able to live well in Hamburg. Every district should get a center for seniors. It offers advice in one place. The Deutschlandticket should be cheaper for seniors. Older people should be able to live at home for a long time.