Given the shortage of skilled workers, Liberal Democratic Party Chairman Lindner wants to put more elderly people and social welfare recipients into employment. There must be incentives for this. At the same time, he criticized the retirement age of 63 as a “reserved bonus”.
Given the shortage of skilled workers, Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner wants to activate more people for the labor market. “Theoretically there are millions of people who can enter the labor market, but they live on social welfare,” the FDP leader told the Fink Media Group newspaper. “We have to encourage these people to enter the job market with at least one mini- or medium-sized job,” Lindner stressed. Further measures are postponing retirement and increasing part-time employment.
Retirement at 63 is one of them “Retirement Premium”
“We should overcome unwanted part-time work with better childcare. Why don’t we create incentives for people to want to work longer instead of funding their pension at 63?” the Liberal Democrat leader said. Lindner criticized the age-63 pension, enforced by coalition partner SPD, as a “commission bonus for qualified employees”.
Lindner is also skeptical of the pattern of further reductions in working hours. “In the long run, discussions about a four-day work week will not help us fund our social and environmental standards,” the finance minister said.
criticize summarize from young
The FDP boss does not want to follow the advice of the head of the German Institute for Economic Research, Michael Husser, to extend the working week or reduce holiday entitlements: “This is a matter for the collective bargaining partners.”
At the same time, Lindner criticized remarks by Steffen Kampeter, managing director of the Federation of German Employers’ Associations (BDA), that young people in particular were “not in the mood for work”. The Treasurer said: “Generalizations are wrong. We also have a lot of young people who want economic progress and are in the mood to show.”
Increased number of bottleneck occupations
The Federal Employment Agency announced in June that the number of bottleneck occupations will rise sharply in 2022. Such bottlenecks exist in 200 of the approximately 1,200 occupations assessed. 52 more than the previous year. Today, skilled workers are scarce in every six occupations.
The jobs with the greatest bottlenecks included nursing jobs, professional drivers, medical assistants, construction jobs, as well as childcare and automotive engineering jobs, the report said. At the specialist and expert level, there is a lack of pharmacists, architects or IT staff. Compared with last year, occupations such as hotel catering service, metal construction industry, and bus driver have been added.