End abuses. The Minister for Employment and Social Affairs, Ursula von der Leyen, promised a reshuffle of the interim act after the Schlecker case (see our dispatch No. 100027). She’s kept her promise. Called “Lex Schlecker,” the amendment to the “Law regulating the employment of temporary workers” (Arbeitnehmerüberlassungsgesetz - AÜG) will prevent businesses from firing permanent employees and re-hiring them immediately or shortly after as temporary workers with less advantageous conditions, in the same establishment or in another subsidiary of the same group. “We don’t want revolving system allowing [businesses] to systematically replace their permanent employees by temporary workers” von der Leyen explained.
>End abuses. The Minister for Employment and Social Affairs, Ursula von der Leyen, promised a reshuffle of the interim act after the Schlecker case (see our dispatch No. 100027). She’s kept her promise. Called “Lex Schlecker,” the amendment to the “Law regulating the employment of temporary workers” (Arbeitnehmerüberlassungsgesetz – AÜG) will prevent businesses from firing permanent employees and re-hiring them immediately or shortly after as temporary workers with less advantageous conditions, in the same establishment or in another subsidiary of the same group.
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