As of: February 27, 2024, 3:36 a.m
By: Victoria Krumbeck
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The Greens are receiving support from the SPD for increasing the minimum wage - the FDP is reluctant.
The Greens have even more demands.
Leipzig/Berlin – The Green Party members of the Bundestag will go into retreat in Leipzig on Tuesday (February 27th).
The Green Party politicians want to debate for three days under the motto “Together for our democracy”.
A special paper will also be discussed in the next few days.
The Greens are calling for a significant increase in the minimum wage.
The FDP was already critical of this proposal in advance.
The Greens are calling for a minimum wage increase to 14 euros – criticism from the FDP
The focus of the exam is on points such as strengthening democracy, maintaining social cohesion and shaping the digital and ecological transformation of the economy.
However, the Greens want much more, as can be seen from a paper entitled “Social.
Just.
Climate protection.”, which
t-online
was the first to report on.
First and foremost is the demand to increase the minimum wage to just under 15 euros next year.
The Greens, led by the two federal chairmen Ricarda Lang (l.) and Omid Nouripour (r.), are calling for a minimum wage of around 14 euros.
© Sebastian Gollnow/dpa
According to the paper, the current increase to 12.41 euros is too little.
In order to increase the minimum wage, the Greens want to reform the adjustment procedure in the responsible minimum wage commission.
“We want to set the minimum wage at 60 percent of the median wage,”
t-online
quoted the document as saying.
“That would mean a minimum wage of well over 14 euros for 2024, and in 2025 it would be just under 15 euros.” According to the vote by the Minimum Wage Commission last June, the minimum wage would increase by a further 41 cents in January 2025, bringing it to 12.82 euros.
After the Greens' demand, the FDP counters: "Political determination of the minimum wage is wrong"
The parliamentary state secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance, Katja Hessel (FDP), said of the Greens' demand: "A political determination of the minimum wage is wrong and counteracts the independent minimum wage commission." A "purely ideological determination" of the minimum wage would "jobs and the economic location "," she told the
AFP
news agency .
“Nobody can want that in the current situation in which we need more dynamism on the labor market.”
The Greens receive support from the SPD.
“We also consider the recommendations of the EU minimum wage directive, both an orientation towards 60 percent of the median wage and a strengthening of the collective bargaining partnership, to be correct,” said the deputy SPD parliamentary group leader Dagmar Schmidt
t-online
.
The Greens are calling for the adoption of a collective bargaining tax law in order to be able to pay more employees in Germany according to collective bargaining agreements.
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Green demands: price guarantee for the 49 euro ticket and rent cap
When it comes to climate money, the Greens are putting pressure on Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP).
The group expects that Linder's announcement that the payment mechanism will be available in 2025 will apply.
In order to finance climate money, “start-up financing from the federal budget” would be required to supplement the income from rising CO2 prices, the paper says.
“One possibility for this would be to reduce environmentally harmful subsidies, such as the company car privilege.” However, the Greens could also imagine a “reallocation of funds” from the budget.
The group is also calling for a permanent price guarantee for the 49 euro ticket.
For this to happen, “financial resources – including in the federal states – would have to be further increased,” it says in the draft.
The Greens also want to extend the rent control.
According to the coalition agreement, the rent cap would be extended and strengthened until 2029, but this has not yet happened.
The Greens have enough to discuss in the next three days.
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