Analysis Of The Struggle Between The Left And Right Wings Behind The Unified Wage War In Germany

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The parties reached a compromise on the key condition of the Social Democratic Party's "unified statutory minimum wage" and wrote a joint ruling agreement.

The agreement stipulates that Germany will legislate as soon as possible and implement the unified national minimum wage of 8.5 euros per hour (1 euros or 8.04 yuan) by January 1, 2015, and will further increase to 10 euro / hour in the future.

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The reason is that many young German people are more willing to find a well paid part-time job while young people who are willing to receive vocational education are decreasing.

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All along, employers' associations in various industries have paid collective consultations with corresponding trade unions to determine a minimum wage applicable to the industry or a number of enterprises in this industry, so the minimum wage standard has always been the product of negotiations between employees and employers.

Therefore, the minimum wage standards in different industries are different.

And almost all effective wage agreements have two criteria: one high, one low and the other. They apply to Western and eastern Germany respectively.

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< p > the establishment of a unified statutory minimum wage is a long-standing goal pursued by the German leftist parties representing the interests of the general public, and the right-wing political parties representing the interests of employers have always held a negative attitude.

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< p > in 2007, the Social Democratic Party planned to adopt legislation to establish a unified minimum wage standard, but failed to get the support of the Christian Democratic Union, which was then united in power.

But the Social Democrats did not give up. They began to start with local legislation.

After working hard, the Social Democratic Party first adopted the Hamburg minimum wage law in its Hamburg City Council, with a standard of 8.5 euro / hour, which came into effect in June 2013.

Then the minimum wage law was introduced in the Democratic Party led ruling Berlin, which is the same as Hamburg, and came into effect in January this year.

Meanwhile, the social democratic party seized the opportunity of the CDU to seek its joint ruling partner, forcing the CDU compromise that rejected the proposal 6 years ago, and agreed to set up a unified statutory minimum wage.

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< p > it can be said that the Social Democratic Party has achieved a periodic victory with the strategy of protracted war and local forced central government, so that the statutory minimum wage has become the most significant "performance project" of the Social Democratic Party in recent years.

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< p > although the unified national minimum wage standard has been put on the agenda of the government, many German economists have criticized the statutory minimum wage.

In the eastern German University of Nuremberg, Professor Moeller, who has long been engaged in labor market research, believes that a unified 8.5 euro / hour is too high for the eastern region.

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"P", according to the reporter, in the eastern German cities, such as pads, Leipzig, and so on, the ordinary hotel catering industry salary standard is basically 6~8 euro / hour, it does not have a small difference from the future legal standard.

According to earlier data from the German Economic Research Institute, 17% of German employees earn less than 8.5 euros / hour. If the East and west parts are divided, the west is 15%, while the eastern part is 27%.

This shows that employers in the East are undoubtedly under greater pressure.

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Karl Brunke, an expert in the German Economic Research Institute, points out that the statutory minimum wage system can not only eliminate poverty, but also create new inequalities in income distribution. P

In addition, the statutory minimum wage will also give the small business owners of the service industry a huge financial burden, which will lead to rising prices of daily services such as restaurants, haircuts and taxis.

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< p > because the big frame has already been completed, the opponents of the statutory minimum wage seem to want to start with a "back door" from the "exception rule".

When the CDU was forced to agree to the conditions of the SPD, it only stipulated that the public welfare volunteers were exceptions in the joint agreement, and the statutory minimum wage was not applicable.

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Horst Senhof, chairman of the Christian Social Alliance (CSU), recently proposed that short-term workers, interns, public welfare volunteers and retirees should also be exceptions. P

The proposal of this station in the position of small and medium-sized enterprises has immediately welcomed the applause of the business community.

According to the German labor department, the total number of such employees mentioned by Hof is over 2 million.

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"P", which left the left-wing parties and trade unions unhappy and attacked Hof for failing to abide by the joint agreement he just signed.

Judging from the present situation, the "exception rule" in legislation may become the focus of all parties' struggle. As long as the legal text is not finalized one day, the game will continue.

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