As of: February 29, 2024, 6:00 a.m
By: Hans Moritz
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Clearing snow is an activity that the Erdinger AfD believes asylum seekers can take on.
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The AfD in the Erding district council is calling on District Administrator Martin Bayerstorfer (CSU) to examine and introduce a work requirement for refugees.
The group is concerned with charitable activities.
It is following the example of the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia, whose CDU district administrator Christian Herrgott would like to introduce this work requirement that the local district council had already decided on in 2023.
According to media reports, there are 150 refugees in the Saale-Orla district who are being recruited - initially on a voluntary basis.
Herrgott assumes that immigrants will integrate more quickly this way.
They should receive 80 cents per hour and four hours of charitable work are planned per day.
This could add up to 64 euros per month.
Activities such as cleaning streets, cutting back hedges and shoveling snow are planned.
The district wants to write to clubs and municipal companies about this.
Anyone who refuses will have their funding reduced according to the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act.
For God's sake, deductions of up to 180 euros per month are possible.
The initiative that the Erdinger AfD now wants to take up is by no means a Thuringian invention.
The Asylum Seekers Benefits Act contains relevant provisions.
Article five states that residents should not only care about their facilities.
“In addition, as far as possible, work opportunities should be made available at state, municipal and non-profit organizations if the results of the work serve the general public.” The 80 cents per hour are also mentioned here, as is the obligation to accept work.
The Erdinger AfD suddenly has many advocates on its side.
She can even refer to Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil.
According to the kommunal.de portal, the SPD politician is in favor of using refugees for charitable activities.
“We as the federal government support it when states and municipalities make use of it and use asylum seekers for charitable activities,” said Heil.
“Wherever it makes sense, it can and should be used.”
The municipal umbrella organizations also welcome the work requirement.
Kommunal.de quotes the President of the German District Council, Reinhard Sager: “Anyone who is healthy and not handicapped has to work.”
On Wednesday afternoon, Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) spoke out, saying that charitable work creates a “win-win situation for asylum seekers and society”.
District administrators and mayors should take advantage of the opportunity.
For Herrmann, however, the compulsion only appears in the small print.
In Bremen, the obligation to work has been examined - and they are skeptical about it.
The SPD-led Senate for Labor, Social Affairs, Youth and Integration assumes that its own bureaucracy would have to be set up in order to find appropriate jobs.
Often they are not even present in large numbers.
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There are currently 2,874 refugees registered in the Erding district, 2,168 of whom live in accommodation in the district, as district office spokesman Markus Hautmann said upon request.
In Bremen there are also warnings about a crowding-out effect and competition with the minimum wage sector.
In Augsburg, the first attempts in this direction were sobering.
Here too, the administrative effort turned out to be very high.
Social officer Martin Schenkelberg (CSU) told the BR that jobs had to be found first and the candidates had to be trained.
Last but not least, monitoring is needed.
AfD parliamentary group leader Wolfgang Kellermann requests that Erding seek information from his Thuringian colleagues and then adopt the model of the Saale-Orla district after consultations in the parliamentary groups.
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