Mini-job limit will increase in 2022: when will the new earnings limit apply?
Created: 05/11/2022, 17:51
By: Andrea Stettner
According to the plans of the traffic light government, the earnings limit for mini-jobbers is to rise in 2022.
Federal Minister of Labor Heil now gives a date for the increase.
The year 2022 has all sorts of innovations in store for mini-jobbers.
As of January 1, 2022, the minimum wage rose to EUR 9.82 per hour before it is scheduled to rise to EUR 10.45 from July 1.
As early as October, the
minimum wage is to be increased to 12 euros
, as the traffic light coalition recently revealed*.
The earnings limit for mini-jobs is set to rise in 2022.
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Mini job: Earnings limit will increase on October 1, 2022
As part of the increase in the minimum wage, the upper earnings limit for mini-jobbers will now also be adjusted: the mini-job limit will rise
from 450 euros
to 520 euros per month
on October 1st
.
This was announced by Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil to the newspapers of the New Berlin Editorial Company (Saturday).
"That's how it was agreed in the coalition - and that's how we do it," said the SPD politician, according to a report by the German Press Agency (dpa).
According to Heil, the upper limit for so-called
midi jobs will also increase from the current EUR 1,300 to EUR
1,600
on October 1st
.
Also read:
Minijob 2022: That has changed for employees since January 1st.
Mini-job limit should be based on a weekly working time of 10 hours
In the future, the mini-job limit should be based on a
weekly working time of 10 hours at minimum wage
conditions, according to the coalition agreement between the SPD, the Greens and the FDP.
Increasing the mini-job earnings limit is also met with criticism
The planned increase in the earnings limit is also met with criticism: trade unions and left-wing politicians warn, for example, that the increase to 520 euros means that there is a risk that mini -jobs
will increasingly crowd out regular jobs
, according to another dpa report.
In addition, mini-jobs would lead straight to poverty in old age due to the lack of entitlements to pension and unemployment insurance.
Instead, the left and unions advocate employment subject to social security contributions from the first euro.
Incidentally, the trainees can also look forward to a higher training allowance in 2022 - but not all of them.
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