What do the parties in Schleswig-Holstein say on work and social affairs?

The CDU wants to push at the federal level for more flexible statutory maximum working hours, as far as European law allows. Within the state, co-working offerings and new forms of work are to be supported.

The CDU wants looser rules on working hours. Workers should have to agree to this. It should help families and people who care for relatives. There should be shared offices across the state. These are called co-working spaces.

The CDU wants to draw more skilled workers from people already living in Schleswig-Holstein. Better childcare is meant to lower the share of part-time work and help women in particular work more. The state's skilled-labor initiative FI.SH is to be developed further.

The state does not have enough skilled workers. The CDU wants to win more people who already live there. Better childcare should help. Then more women can work longer hours. People without jobs should also get better training.

The CDU wants to establish shared offices in rural areas and support them through a funding guideline. In its view, this strengthens villages, makes it easier to balance work and private life, and cuts commuting and thus emissions.

The CDU wants shared offices in the countryside. People can work there close to home. Then they have to travel less. That is good for the climate and for families.

The CDU wants the state to take on more responsibility for child poverty, even though many support services are the job of municipalities. Existing support for children and young people is to be strengthened, and those involved are to be connected at a statewide child poverty conference. The aim is for opportunities not to depend on a child's family background.

Many children in Schleswig-Holstein are poor. The CDU wants the state to do more about this. Help for children and young people should get stronger. There should be a big meeting on child poverty. Experts should share ideas there.

The CDU wants to draw up a state plan against loneliness in old age and support local help. Older people should be able to gain digital skills, while non-digital services remain in place. Upper age limits for civic engagement are to be reviewed.

Many older people are lonely. The CDU wants to make a plan against this. Older people should be able to learn how to use digital devices. Those who cannot should still get services without the internet. The CDU wants to review age limits for volunteering.

The CDU wants to continue the state's accessibility fund and remove barriers in public facilities, public transit, health care and housing. It sees inclusion as a task that cuts across all policy areas and justifies removing barriers with participation in society.

People with disabilities often face obstacles. The CDU wants to remove these obstacles. The state has a fund for this. The CDU wants to keep it going. There should be more homes, doctors' offices and buses without obstacles.

The CDU wants to open the way into regular companies for more people with disabilities and build an inclusive vocational training system. Sheltered workshops for people with disabilities are to change over the long term.

People with disabilities should find regular jobs more easily. The CDU wants to work more with companies for this. Job training should also be open to everyone. Workshops for people with disabilities should change over time. First the CDU wants to test new ways of working.

The CDU wants to continue the state hardship fund set up during the coronavirus period on a permanent basis, mainly to support food banks. Funding to fight poverty is to keep rising, and homeless people are to get easier help finding housing.

The CDU wants to help poor people. During the pandemic there was a fund for people in need. It should stay for good. The money should mainly help food banks. Food banks give food to poor people. People without a home should find housing more easily.

The FDP wants to limit the Working Hours Act to a simple framework that collective agreements and works agreements then fill in. In the party's view, individual preferences and models for work should not be restricted unnecessarily.

A law sets how long people may work. The FDP wants to make this law simpler. Companies and workers should agree on more themselves. This way working hours should fit people's lives better.

The FDP wants to introduce a liberal Bürgergeld (citizen's income). It would replace the many different welfare benefits, which the platform describes as confusing.

Today there are many different kinds of state aid. The FDP finds this too complicated. It wants one single benefit instead. It is called Bürgergeld.

The FDP wants to strengthen vocational education, especially dual training and the STEM fields, as well as continuing education. More people should gain access to the labor market, since the party sees the skilled labor shortage as one of the biggest challenges.

The FDP wants to strengthen job training in companies and vocational schools. People should be able to keep learning all their lives. Young people should get better help choosing a job. More people should find work.

The FDP wants to keep addressing occupational safety challenges across different industries. It relies on targeted information campaigns and on effective means of intervening when abuses occur.

Work should not make people sick. The FDP wants better protection at work. Companies and workers should get better information. The state should be able to step in when conditions are bad.

The FDP wants to review how effective state social benefits are and to show more openly where funds go and which structures they support. This is meant to make help more targeted and lasting.

The FDP wants to check whether social help from the state works well. Everyone should be able to see where the money goes. This way help should reach people better.

The FDP wants to keep treating inclusion as a task for all policy areas and to further develop the state action plan on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. People with disabilities should get more opportunities in the regular labor market, and daycare centers and schools should get more support for inclusion.

The FDP wants people with disabilities to take part everywhere. This applies to culture, transport and work, for example. They should have more chances at regular jobs. Daycare centers and schools should get more help for this.

The FDP wants to back volunteer work with paid staff structures, especially in youth associations, and to further develop the state's volunteering strategy. The volunteer card (Ehrenamtskarte) should offer more benefits, particularly on public transit.

Many people help for free in their spare time. This is called volunteering. The FDP wants to support these people better. The volunteer card should bring more benefits, for example on buses and trains. There should also be advice for volunteers who face hate and attacks.

The FDP wants to counter loneliness in old age with multigenerational housing projects and a digital platform listing all available programs. Public transit and accessibility are also to be improved, and education and prevention programs for older people expanded.

The FDP wants older people not to be lonely. Young and old should be able to live together. A website should show all programs against loneliness. Buses and trains should be better and free of barriers. There should be more courses for older people.

The Greens want to improve working conditions at universities. Permanent tasks are to be done by staff on permanent contracts, and student employees are to be paid under a collective agreement. The party backs the union campaign TVStud for this purpose.

Many people at universities only have short-term contracts. The Greens want permanent jobs for tasks that never end. Students who work at a university should get collective pay. Collective pay is pay that unions and employers agree on.

The Greens want a law on collective bargaining compliance and public procurement with a procurement minimum wage of at least 13.50 euros. The state minimum wage is to be reintroduced and also set at 13.50 euros. Precarious working conditions are to be monitored more closely.

Companies with state contracts will have to pay at least 13.50 euros an hour. The state will again have its own minimum wage of 13.50 euros. Companies should follow collective agreements. These are pay deals between unions and employers. Bad working conditions will be checked more closely.

The Greens want to expand occupational safety by strengthening inspections and counseling, for example on the ban on subcontracted labor in meatpacking and on the minimum wage. A housing oversight law is meant to secure minimum standards for workers' accommodation.

The Greens want to protect workers better. Officials should check more often, for example in slaughterhouses. Everyone should get the minimum wage. A new law should make sure workers have decent housing.

The Greens regard sexual services as work and want to reduce the stigma attached to them. At the same time, people who work under coercion are to receive protection and individual support.

The Greens see sex work as work. Nobody should be treated badly because of it. People who are forced into this work should get help and protection.

The Greens want to keep promoting working from home, co-working, and mobile work while preserving worker protections. To that end, the occupational safety and working hours laws are to be reformed. The platform sees opportunities for rural areas and the climate.

The Greens want to support working from home. This saves travel and helps rural areas and the climate. The laws that protect workers should be updated for this.

The Greens want to expand continuing education so that employees can adapt to digitalization and the economy's shift toward climate neutrality. They support the federal government's plan for Bildungszeit and Bildungsteilzeit (paid full-time and part-time training leave).

The world of work is changing fast. So the Greens want more training courses for workers. People should be able to take time off to learn. This should be possible in all jobs.

The Greens want people working in sheltered workshops for people with disabilities to receive the minimum wage and employee status. In the long run, alternatives to the workshop system are to be developed with the federal government. The goal is a labor market open to everyone, as the UN disability rights convention provides.

Some people with disabilities work in special workshops. They do not get the minimum wage there. The Greens want to change that. More people with disabilities should be able to work in regular companies.

The Greens want to raise the Landesblindengeld (state allowance for blind people) to offset higher extra costs. At the federal level they back an allowance for people with severe visual impairment and, through the Bundesrat, a federal participation benefit. These payments are meant to offset financial disadvantages faced by people with disabilities.

Blind people get money from the state. The Greens want to raise this amount. People with very poor eyesight should also get money. There should also be a new federal benefit for people with disabilities.

The Greens want no one in Schleswig-Holstein to have to live in poverty. To that end the party backs the federal Bürgergeld (citizen's income), wants to replace Hartz IV, and advocates higher taxes on the very rich. The state is also to provide good jobs and career prospects.

The Greens want no one in the state to be poor. The Bürgergeld should replace Hartz IV. Very rich people should pay more taxes. The state should create good jobs. State contracts should go to companies in the region.

The Greens want to expand debt and insolvency counseling and set up statewide advice on electricity costs. The goal is to avoid power cutoffs and protect people from energy poverty. At the federal level the party advocates abolishing power cutoffs altogether.

The Greens want more counseling for people in debt. There should be advice on electricity costs everywhere in the state. No one should have their power shut off. That should be banned across Germany.

The Greens are guided by the idea of a basic income and want a nationwide pilot with scientific evaluation. The stated reason is to narrow the gap between rich and poor. In addition, decentralized, mobile and digital services are meant to enable more participation in society.

A basic income is money from the government for everyone. The Greens like this idea. They want a trial across all of Germany. Researchers should follow the trial. The gap between rich and poor should get smaller.

The Greens want the state to point people to benefits on its own initiative rather than wait for applications. Parents applying online for a birth certificate are to be informed automatically about available support. The same principle is to apply to other life situations, such as dealings with the job center.

Today parents have to search for help themselves. The Greens want to change that. The government should tell people about help on its own. This happens when parents apply online for a birth certificate. The language should be easy to understand.

The Greens want to give volunteers more support and pursue an overall strategy for volunteering. Voluntary service programs such as the FSJ, FÖJ, and Bundesfreiwilligendienst (federal volunteer service) should be open to more people regardless of income.

Many people help others for free. The Greens want to support these people more. One example is cheaper bus and train tickets. Young people with little money should also be able to do a voluntary year.

The Greens consider church labor law largely outdated and want standard labor law to apply to church employees. They also want to make it easier to leave a religious community.

Churches have their own rules for their workers. The Greens want to change that. Church workers should have the same rules as everyone else. Leaving a church should also become easier.

The Greens want to push at the federal level for tougher action against undeclared work. Customs and tax authorities are to cooperate better, and general contractors are to be liable for wage tax evaded by their subcontractors.

The Greens want to do more against undeclared work. That is work without paying taxes and social contributions. Customs and tax offices should work together better. Big contractors should be liable for unpaid wage tax.

The Greens want to make state employment more attractive through good pay, family-friendly conditions and flexible working hours. Civil servants are to choose their health insurance freely, and outsourced workers are to be brought back onto the state payroll step by step.

The Greens want the state to be a good employer. Civil servants should choose their own health insurance. Some people work for the state but are employed by companies. They should work directly for the state again. Cleaning staff come first.

The SPD wants a new Tariftreue- und Vergabegesetz (law on wage compliance in public procurement) for Schleswig-Holstein. Public contracts and subsidies should go only to companies that treat and pay their workers properly. The party says this will prevent wage dumping.

The state gives contracts to companies. The SPD wants a new law for this. Only companies that pay fair wages should get contracts. A special minimum wage should apply to these contracts.

The SPD wants to manage industry's shift to climate neutrality so that workers do not end up unemployed. It relies on further training, retraining and transfer companies. It also backs unions and employers in reducing working hours.

Industry is supposed to become climate neutral. Jobs can be lost along the way. The SPD wants people to find new work. For this there should be training and retraining. The SPD also supports shorter working hours.

The SPD supports a right to work from home and to work remotely. Employers should provide suitable equipment, and occupational safety rules should apply fully at home.

The SPD wants a right to work from home. The employer should provide the needed equipment. Safety rules apply at home too. And people at home also get to stop working in the evening.

The SPD wants to strengthen occupational safety and give the state's workplace safety agency more resources. The party wants Schleswig-Holstein to become the German state with the best working conditions.

An agency checks whether work is safe. The SPD wants to give this agency more resources. Nobody should be exploited at work. The state should have the best working conditions.

The SPD wants to gradually bring outsourced units of the university hospital and other state services back under the collective agreement for state employees (TV-L). The aim is to reduce competitive pressure and improve working conditions.

Some state tasks are done by outsourced companies today. For example cleaning or security. Pay there is often different. The SPD wants to bring these areas back. Then the state's pay agreement applies again.

The SPD wants to enforce fair pay, regular contracts and effective workplace safety in agriculture, the food industry and retail. It plans to strengthen works councils, advise seasonal workers in their native language and expand inspections.

The SPD wants good jobs on farms and in food companies. Workers should get fair pay and proper contracts. Seasonal workers should learn about their rights in their own language. The state should check workplace safety better.

The SPD wants to create a new type of professional, the Vor-Ort-für-dich-Kraft ("on-site-for-you worker"), who offers health, nursing and social support from a single source in villages and neighborhoods. This person is to reach out to people actively because, in the platform's view, existing help often fails to reach people or arrives too late due to high barriers.

The SPD wants a new helper in every town and neighborhood. The helper visits people at home. The helper assists with health, care and social questions. This way people should get help faster.

The SPD wants collective bargaining agreements in health and social services that are binding on all employers in the sector. All non-academic training programs in the social field are to be well paid. With this it aims to counter the shortage of skilled workers in nursing, child care, social work, midwifery and emergency services.

Nursing, child care and social work lack many skilled workers. The SPD wants wage agreements there to apply to everyone. A wage agreement sets pay and working conditions. Trainees in social jobs should also get good pay.

The SPD wants a state action plan to strengthen municipalities that take targeted action against poverty. A report on poverty and wealth in the state is to be published in every legislative term. The focus is on poor children and poor older people.

The SPD wants to do more against poverty. There should be a plan for the whole state. Cities and towns should get help with this. Every few years a report should show how poor and rich people are. Poor children and poor older people matter most here.

The SPD wants to create a training guarantee: anyone who cannot find a company placement should be able to start the first year of training at a vocational school. An "Auszubildendenwerk" modeled on the student services organization is to support trainees, for example with affordable housing.

The SPD wants a guarantee for job training. If you find no place at a company, you can start at a vocational school. A new organization should help trainees. For example, it should offer cheap apartments for trainees.

The SPD wants to work with the unions toward a collective bargaining agreement for student and research assistants. Pay for adjunct lecturers and student assistants, unchanged for years, is also to rise. The platform justifies this with social fairness at universities.

Many assistants work at universities. Their pay has stayed the same for years. The SPD wants them to get more money. There should be a collective agreement. That is a fixed contract on pay and working conditions.

The SSW wants to revive the Tariftreuegesetz (law tying public contracts to collectively agreed wages), which was repealed in 2019. Public contracts should again be linked to fair pay, good working conditions and sustainability.

The state hands out contracts to companies. In the past, these companies had to pay fair wages. This law was dropped in 2019. The SSW wants to bring it back. It should also apply to towns and cities.

The SSW wants to improve the labor market across the German-Danish border: gaps in social law for commuters are to be closed, advice services expanded and vocational qualifications mutually recognized. A joint economic development strategy for the border region is to be added.

Many people work on the other side of the border. The SSW wants to make that easier. They should get more advice. Gaps in social insurance should be closed. Job training certificates should count in both countries.

The SSW calls for a minimum wage of 13 euros per hour that is enough to live on and protects against poverty. Exemptions for certain groups are to be removed.

The SSW wants a higher minimum wage. It should be 13 euros per hour. It should apply to everyone. There should be no more exceptions.

The SSW wants a law that allows temporary agency work and contracts for work (Werkverträge) only in exceptional cases and prevents abuse. Mini-jobs are to be reduced where they displace regular jobs or where conditions are unacceptable.

The SSW wants to strongly limit temp work and outsourcing contracts. They should only be allowed as an exception. There should also be fewer mini-jobs. Instead there should be more regular jobs with social insurance.

The SSW wants Schleswig-Holstein to set up a pilot project on an unconditional basic income. The aim is to examine whether it could answer future challenges in social and labor market policy.

The SSW wants to test a basic income. That is money from the state for everyone, with no conditions. The state should start a trial. The SSW wants to see if the idea helps.

The SSW wants to expand help for people with addictions, homeless people, and people with mental illness according to need, and to prevent cuts at their expense after the pandemic. The Finnish "Housing First" approach is to be used against homelessness.

The SSW wants more help for people in need. This includes people without a home or with an addiction. People with mental illness should also get more help. The state should not cut spending here.

The SSW wants the federal government, the Federal Employment Agency, and the state to focus more on active labor market policy and give jobless people individual advice. The program argues that work secures participation and self-determination.

The SSW wants better help for people without work. Everyone should get personal advice. There should be fitting courses and retraining. Young people should also get help starting a job.

The SSW wants to strictly enforce the duty of companies to employ people with disabilities and to raise the compensatory levy. The state, as an employer, is to hire more people with severe disabilities.

The SSW wants more jobs for people with disabilities. Companies must hire such people. Those that do not should pay more. The state itself should hire more people with disabilities.

The SSW wants to raise Kindergeld (child benefit) and adjust it to the rising cost of basic needs. It also wants the benefit to no longer be deducted from Hartz IV welfare payments.

The SSW wants higher child benefit. It should rise along with prices for everyday needs. Families on Hartz IV welfare should keep the child benefit on top. Today it is deducted from their payments.

The SSW wants collective bargaining agreements to apply everywhere and employees to have more say, especially when new technologies are introduced. It also calls for a right to continuing education, a right to return from part-time to full-time work, and legal rules for new forms of work.

The SSW wants union wage agreements to cover all workers. These agreements set pay and hours for many companies. Workers should have more say at work. Everyone should have a right to further training. Part-time workers should be able to go back to full-time.

The SSW names a solidarity-based welfare state on the Scandinavian model as its guiding vision, in which those with greater means contribute more. For the party, this includes good education for all children, good working conditions and support for all regions.

The SSW wants a strong welfare state like in Scandinavia. People who have more should give more. Weaker people should get help. All children should get a good education. All regions of the state should get support.