What do the parties in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania say on work and social affairs?

The AfD wants to push at the federal level for basic income support to focus more on work incentives, so that people who work are clearly better off than those who do not. Rules on additional earnings would be reformed and working hours made more flexible.

The AfD wants to change basic income support. That is money from the state for people without income. Working should pay more than not working. Working hours should also be more flexible.

The AfD wants to make public spaces fully accessible without barriers. Together with companies and social insurance agencies, more people with severe disabilities are to be brought into work.

People with disabilities should be able to get around everywhere. The AfD wants to remove barriers in public places. More people with severe disabilities should find work. The AfD wants to work with companies on this.

The AfD wants Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to create an allowance for deaf people modeled on the existing allowance for blind people. Blind, severely visually impaired, and deaf people as well as children with the most severe disabilities are to receive financial compensation for their disadvantages.

Blind people get money from the state. The AfD wants the same kind of money for deaf people. Deaf means a person cannot hear. Children with very severe disabilities should also get support.

The AfD wants to further develop the state's law on welfare funding and transparency. Executives at welfare and social service organizations would have to disclose their compensation so that, in the party's view, taxpayer money reaches the places where it is needed.

Welfare groups get money from the state. The AfD wants to know what their bosses earn. The groups should show this in a report. That way the money should reach the people who need help.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Left wants six weeks of vacation for all employees and, in the long run, a 35-hour week without loss of pay. Employees are to get a right to full-time work and a right to return from part-time. The party wants to defend the Working Hours Act and the eight-hour day.

All employees should get six weeks of vacation. Later, the work week should be only 35 hours. Pay should stay the same. People who work part-time should be allowed to return to full-time. The eight-hour day should stay.

The Left wants a statewide action plan against poverty with binding targets. It also wants reliably funded minimum standards for social infrastructure in every region. The platform describes poverty not as personal failure but as a result of structural inequality.

The Left wants a plan against poverty for the whole state. The plan should have fixed goals. Every region should have advice and help services. The Left says poor people are not to blame for being poor.

The Left wants to press the federal government for welfare benefits that cover real living costs. Sanctions and bureaucratic hurdles are to be reduced. Job centers and social welfare offices are to become easier to reach.

The Left wants higher welfare benefits. The money should really be enough to live on. There should be fewer penalties and less paperwork. Job centers and welfare offices should be easier to reach.

The Left wants to remove barriers in public and private settings and make accessibility a condition for public investment. The minimum wage is to apply in sheltered workshops for people with disabilities. It also plans a state allowance for deaf people and a dedicated commissioner.

People with disabilities should be able to take part everywhere. Public contracts should only go to accessible projects. The minimum wage should apply in workshops for people with disabilities. Deaf people should get their own allowance from the state.

The Left wants to push at the federal level for removing value-added tax from staple foods. On energy, households are to be protected from energy poverty and supply cutoffs; it should be possible to require utilities to reverse cutoffs.

The Left wants to keep food and energy affordable. Basic foods should no longer carry sales tax. Nobody should have power or water cut off. People with debts should be able to pay in small installments.

The SPD wants to keep implementing the state's skilled-labor strategy and tie young people, families and skilled workers to the state. This includes help with handing over businesses, stronger vocational training and more skills in dealing with artificial intelligence.

The state lacks skilled workers. The SPD wants more young people to stay in the state. It wants to strengthen job training. People who train as master craftsmen keep getting money. Businesses should find a successor more easily.

The SPD wants to strengthen training and career changes and support employment agencies and job centers. For the long-term unemployed it calls for subsidized jobs with social insurance, and for people under 25 a statewide program modeled on one in Schwerin.

The SPD wants to get more people into work. People who have been jobless for a long time should get special job offers. Young people under 25 should get special help. Everyone should finish school or job training.

The SPD wants more collective bargaining coverage, better protection for setting up works councils and more co-determination. Public contracts are to stay tied to paying collectively agreed wages, and the party wants to defend the eight-hour day at the federal level.

The SPD wants good pay and secure jobs. More companies should pay union-agreed wages. Works councils should be better protected. A works council speaks for the workers in a company. The working day should stay at eight hours.

The SPD wants to achieve at the federal level that all citizens pay into the social insurance systems. Everyone is to contribute according to their means, explicitly including members of the Bundestag and the state parliaments.

The SPD wants this: all people pay into social insurance. Those who have more pay more. This should apply to lawmakers too. Lawmakers are elected politicians in parliament.

The SPD wants older people to be able to stay in their homes and take part in social life, even when they need care. It also wants to counter loneliness in all age groups with meeting places and other measures.

Older people should be able to stay in their homes. They should keep taking part in life. Seniors with little money should get help and care too. The SPD also wants to fight loneliness. There are meeting places for everyone.

The SPD wants to make Mecklenburg-Vorpommern accessible in all areas of life and to update the action plan on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities together with those affected. More people with disabilities are to work in the regular labor market.

The SPD wants a state without barriers for people with disabilities. This covers transport, housing, health care and the internet. People with disabilities should have a say in the plans. More of them should work and train in regular companies.

The SPD wants to support new professional approaches in services for homeless people in the state. It names Housing First as an example, an approach in which people first receive a home of their own.

Some people have no home. The SPD wants to help them in new ways. One example is called Housing First. People get a home first. Other help comes after that.

The SPD backs strong collective bargaining coverage at universities and wants a collective agreement for student employees. The obligation for Privatdozenten (habilitated lecturers without a professorship) to teach without pay is to be dropped.

The SPD wants good work at universities. Students with university jobs should get a collective agreement. Such an agreement sets pay and working conditions. Private lecturers should no longer have to teach without pay.

The SPD rejects any loosening of the minimum wage rules. It wants good working conditions for all employees in agriculture and the food industry, regardless of where they come from.

The SPD does not want to loosen the minimum wage. The minimum wage is the lowest pay a business may give. It should also apply on farms and in food companies. This should apply to all workers, no matter what country they come from.