What do the parties in Saxony-Anhalt say on work and social affairs?

The AfD wants families to again take on more tasks that the state handles today. To that end, relatives would find it easier to act on behalf of family members and would receive advice. The program argues that the state has overextended itself with these tasks.

The AfD wants families to help themselves more. The state should take on fewer tasks. Relatives should find it easier to handle things for family members. For example, at a government office or when looking for a nursing home.

The AfD wants to pay apprentices a €1,500 grant toward a driver's license and introduce bonuses for especially good final grades. The aim is to make vocational training more attractive and keep young workers in the state. The party wants to address the skilled-labor shortage with local young people rather than immigration.

The AfD wants to give apprentices money. They would get 1,500 euros for a driver's license. Those with very good final grades would get a bonus. Young people should stay in Saxony-Anhalt. The AfD wants skilled workers from the state, not from abroad.

The BSW wants to prevent rising prices from gradually eroding real wages. Wages would be protected by an automatic adjustment for inflation, and the state government is to push for this at the federal level.

When prices rise, wages are worth less. The BSW wants to prevent that. Wages should rise automatically along with prices. The state should push for this at the federal level.

The BSW wants public contracts and subsidies to go only to companies bound by collective wage agreements. Works councils and unions should be involved in major decisions, and the right to strike should remain untouched.

The BSW wants the state to hire only companies with a collective wage agreement. Only such companies should get public funding too. Works councils should have a say in big decisions. The right to strike should stay as it is.

The BSW calls for a statutory minimum wage of 15 euros per hour without exceptions. Companies that receive state subsidies or carry out public contracts are to be required to pay at least collectively agreed wages.

The minimum wage should rise to 15 euros per hour. There should be no exceptions. Companies with government contracts should pay union-scale wages. Women and men should earn the same for the same work.

The BSW wants a single pension, long-term care and health insurance system into which everyone pays contributions. The state government is to push for this at the federal level.

Everyone should pay into the same insurance. This applies to pensions, care and health. It is called a citizens' insurance. The state should push the federal government for it.

The BSW wants to implement the disability participation law consistently in Saxony-Anhalt and to work permanently with associations and self-advocacy groups. Businesses should get practical help to employ people with disabilities in regular jobs.

People with disabilities should be able to take part in life more fully. They should find regular work more easily. Businesses should get advice and help for this. The state should work steadily with associations. A law on this should be fully applied.

The BSW wants to relieve the heavily burdened social courts and shorten proceedings. To that end, it wants to examine whether a mediation office could settle disputes before they go to court.

The social courts have very many cases. The BSW wants to ease their load. A mediation office could settle disputes before court. This should first be examined and tested.

The BSW wants people to receive social benefits faster and with less red tape. Social welfare offices are to get more staff and cooperate under binding rules. The platform points to processing times of many months, especially for long-term care assistance.

Many people need money from the state. They often wait many months for an answer. The BSW wants this to go faster. The offices should get more staff. They should also work together better.

The BSW calls for a pilot project to create a supra-local social assistance agency that would decide cases faster and more consistently. It would be paired with a digital tool for allocating places in residential and nursing homes. Local care offices and independent advice centers are also to be set up.

The BSW wants to test a new office for social assistance. This office would serve several places at once. It should decide requests faster and in the same way everywhere. An online tool should help families find a place in a care home. There should also be advice and care offices nearby.

The BSW wants independent social counseling available throughout the state, with application processing bundled centrally and linked to it. Authorities should only ask for data needed for the benefit in question. The platform says many people are overwhelmed by the applications.

The BSW wants advice on social benefits in every area. The advice should be independent. Offices should ask for fewer forms. They should only ask for data they really need. Many people cannot manage the applications alone today.

The CDU wants to push at the federal level for lower taxes for the skilled trades and mid-sized firms and for a cap on social security contributions. It also calls for stricter rules in basic income support, easier immigration for skilled workers and incentives for extra work.

The CDU wants the federal government to lower taxes for small companies. Social security contributions should not keep rising. People who get state aid should also do something for it. Skilled workers from abroad should be able to come more easily. People who want to work past retirement age should be able to do so more easily.

The CDU wants benefit recipients who are able to work to give something back. Taking part in the state's labor market programs would no longer be voluntary for them, and at the federal level the party wants to push through a broader duty to do community work.

Some people get money from the state and are able to work. The CDU says they should give something back. They should have to join the state's work programs. The CDU calls this Bürgerarbeit (citizen work). The party also wants a duty to do community work nationwide.

The CDU wants to strengthen meeting places for older people, counter loneliness and promote new forms of housing. It also wants to act against age discrimination and make sure services remain reachable without the internet.

The CDU wants to do more for older people. There should be meeting places for old and young. Nobody should be lonely. Nobody should be treated worse because of their age. Offices and companies should stay reachable without the internet.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

The Left wants to improve working conditions at universities and cut back on fixed-term contracts. People doing permanent tasks are to get permanent positions. It supports a separate collective agreement for student employees.

The Left wants better jobs at universities. Many contracts there only run for a short time. Permanent tasks should come with permanent jobs. Students who work at the university should get a union contract.

The Left stands for basic income support without sanctions, a minimum pension of 1,400 euros, and a low-bureaucracy Kindergrundsicherung (basic child benefit). In the state, it wants to treat poverty preventively and over the long term as a task for all policy areas, because Saxony-Anhalt's poverty rate is above the national average.

The Left wants to end poverty in Saxony-Anhalt. Basic income support should be enough to live on. There should be no more penalties. Pensions should be at least 1,400 euros. Children should get their own basic benefit.

The Left wants to deploy mobile advisers who help people apply for social and family benefits. The platform argues that existing support is often unknown and hard to access.

Many people do not know what help the state offers. Applications are often hard. The Left wants to introduce bureaucracy guides. These are advisers who come to the people. They help fill out the forms.

The Left wants a cross-departmental state action plan against poverty and ongoing social reporting. According to the platform, there has been no clear picture of social conditions for years, and past measures were spread around without planning.

The Left wants a plan against poverty in the state. The state should collect data on social conditions regularly. That way people can see which help works. Poor children should get better chances where they live.

The Left wants to change the rules for full-time work so that a four-day week applies without a pay cut. This is meant to relieve families and keep parents from losing income by going part-time.

The Left wants a four-day week. Full-time would then mean four working days. Pay should stay the same. That gives parents more time for the family.

The Left calls for a state framework agreement for facilities that care for people with intellectual disabilities. It should cover real costs, cut administrative work and leave more time for those in care.

Some facilities care for people with intellectual disabilities. The Left wants a contract with the state for them. The contract should pay all real costs. Caregivers should have more time for the people.

The Left wants a law guaranteeing older people in Saxony-Anhalt rights to participate in decisions. The state's seniors policy program is to become a binding strategy. Mobile guides are to help older people with applications, and services against social isolation are to grow.

Older people should have more of a say. The Left wants a special law for this. Helpers should assist retirees with applications and forms. They also come to villages. There should be more meeting places against loneliness.

The Left wants to push at the federal level for a Kindergrundsicherung (basic child benefit) that protects against poverty and involves no sanctions. Until it takes effect, a state-level top-up would close the gap to the level of need recommended by experts. In addition, a basic package for children would become standard so that costs exclude no one.

The Left wants a basic child benefit from the federal government. This is money meant to protect children from poverty. Until it exists, the state should pay money itself. Children should reliably get lunch, trips and supplies. A device and internet are part of it too. This should apply to all children, including refugees.

In the long term, the Left aims for a 35-hour week with no loss of pay and six weeks of vacation for all employees. It also calls for a right to full-time work, a right to return from part-time, and stronger occupational safety. According to the platform, work should provide security and prospects.

In the long run, the Left wants a 35-hour work week. Pay should stay the same. All workers should get six weeks of vacation. Part-time workers should be allowed to go back to full-time. There should be no exceptions to the minimum wage.

The Left wants to make collective bargaining coverage the norm again. A minimum wage of €16.50 would apply to public contracts and rise with inflation and collectively agreed wages. A training levy would make companies that do not train apprentices share in the costs.

The Left wants more companies to pay union-agreed wages. For government contracts, a minimum wage of €16.50 should apply. Companies without apprentices should help pay for training. Apprentices should get at least 80 percent of the union-agreed apprentice pay.

The Left wants to give works councils a say in decisions on investments, locations, and digitalization. Regional economic and transformation councils would democratically plan the restructuring of the economy. The platform argues that employees bear the consequences of closures and relocations.

The Left wants workers to have more of a say. Works councils should help decide on investments and locations. Anyone who obstructs works councils should be punished hard. New regional councils should help plan the economy.

The Left wants to ban decisions on subsistence benefits from being made by algorithms alone. It argues that AI systems risk perpetuating existing inequalities and that people without digital access could be shut out.

Some people need money from the state to live. The Left wants a human to always decide on this, not a computer alone. The party fears that computer programs treat people unfairly. There should still be offices that people can visit.

The SPD wants to shape structural change so that no one is left behind. Investment in new jobs, retraining and regional business hubs is planned, especially in former mining regions.

The economy in the state is changing a lot. The SPD wants nobody to lose their future because of that. The state should pay for new jobs and retraining. This applies most to former mining areas.

The SPD wants collectively agreed wages in all industries and stands by the state's Tariftreue- und Vergabegesetz (law tying public contracts to collective wage standards). Companies that systematically obstruct co-determination would lose access to state subsidies.

The SPD wants more people to be paid under union wage agreements. Workers should have a say in their company. Companies that block this should get no state funding. A state law on fair wages in public contracts should stay.

The SPD aims for a training fund that all companies pay into, so that small and mid-sized firms that train apprentices are not at a disadvantage. It also wants a cheaper Deutschlandticket and driver's license for young people and paid mandatory internships.

The SPD wants a fund for job training. All companies should pay into it. Then companies that train young people are not worse off. A driver's license and the Deutschlandticket should cost young people less. Required internships should be paid.

The SPD wants to keep funding continuing education and permanently secure advisory structures such as the continuing education agencies. People who have had trouble finding work would be reached with targeted training offers.

The world of work is changing. So the SPD wants to keep paying for further training. Advice centers for this should stay for good. People without job training or with disabilities should also get fitting offers.

The SPD wants to make it easier for people with disabilities to move from sheltered workshops into the general labor market. The platform argues that too many people work in workshops even though employers could use them.

Many people with disabilities work in special workshops. The SPD wants more of them to work in regular companies. The switch should become easier. Public offices should also hire more people with disabilities.

The SPD names fighting poverty, especially among children and older people, as a central task. Help is to be quick to reach and free of stigma, and counseling services are to be strengthened across the state.

The SPD wants to fight poverty. Children and old people in particular should get help. Counseling services should be strengthened, for example for debt or addiction. Schools and public offices should offer free pads and tampons.

The SPD wants to fight child poverty with a Kindergrundsicherung (basic child allowance) and launch a Bundesrat initiative for it. It also advocates a free hot lunch for all children and teenagers in daycare and school. According to the platform, one in seven children currently grows up in poverty.

The SPD wants to fight child poverty. It wants a basic child allowance. This is one payment that combines several kinds of help for children. All children should get a hot lunch in daycare and school. The lunch should be free.

The SPD wants more reliable funding for voluntary service programs and wants to raise the allowance and the meal subsidy to a level that protects against poverty. At the federal level it will push for a legal right to a place.

Some people work for the community for a year as volunteers. The SPD wants to give them more pocket money. Everyone should have a right to a place. The SPD wants to push for this at the federal level.

The SPD wants to pass collective bargaining results on to civil servants without delay, introduce a flat-rate health allowance and expand the rights of staff councils. According to the platform, this is meant to secure the attractiveness and performance of the public sector.

Civil servants should get pay raises right away. They should be free to choose public or private health insurance. Staff representatives should get more rights. The SPD wants to attract good people to work for the state.