About a week to the German federal election, when speculation about possible coalitions after the vote is rife (reelection of the current CDU/CSU and FDP coalition, a “red-green” coalition between the SPD and the Green party with the support of Die Linke, the radical left-wing party, or even, and this is the most likely combination, a big coalition between the CDU/CSU and the SPD), Planet Labor has looked at the labor-related measures defended by the major political parties. Even though there are some big differences between the programs, the German social agenda for the next four years will be about new laws on minimum wage, temporary work, precarious work (fixed-term contracts), gender equality, quotas for women on boards, or even comanagement. (Ref. 130538)
Minimum wage. Regarding minimum wage, there are two sides: on the one hand the parties from the outgoing coalition (the Christian Democratic Union, CDU, its Bavarian ally, the Social Democratic Union, CSU, and the liberal party, FDP) keep calling for minimum wage negotiated regularly by the social partners, depending on the sectors and the regions. On the other, the opposition (Social Democratic Party, SPD, the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, and Die Linke, the far-left party) want the introduction of
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