Uwe
Witt
Part-time
Pay Extension
AfD
Kompakt, August 6, 2020
[Uwe Witt is an Alternative für Deutschland
Bundestag member from the western German state of Nordrhein-Westfalen. He is a
human resources manager. Marcus Söder (CSU) is minister-president of Bavaria.]
Corona
in the meantime is acting as a fire accelerator and a fulfillment aid for the
left-green, ideological re-structuring of the German economy. Not only have the
government’s measures for containing the Corona virus forced the German economy
to its knees; no, now the wonder medicine of part-time pay also operates to the
detriment of the labor market. Since as long as a firm operates on part-time,
there is an automatic hiring freeze. This development will continue if the
government, as demanded by Marcus Söder, extends the part-time pay regulations
far into next year. After expiration of the special regulations at the end of
the year, of the present 6.9 million part-time workers at most half may return
to their regular, full-time workplaces. Economists are therefore figuring on
unemployment numbers of over five million in Germany. The extension of
part-time work only serves to prettify the unemployment statistics. You
obviously only want to drag out the problem of a menacing mass unemployment
until after the next federal election. End the headless course of the Corona
crisis management and again give people prospects of returning to their old
workplaces at a pre-Corona level.
[trans: tem]
