SPD General Secretary Lars Klingbeil has proposed to allow employees a break through a "basic income year". This would give workers "time to return to things they can not do alongside work," Klingbeil told Online Time. He advocated a model in which every employee would be entitled to a one-month paid leave each year.
"After six years, you could expire for half a year and twelve years for a full year," Klingbeil said. "Employees would receive in this period every month a thousand euros net.Health insurance should take over the state, taxes were not incurred.From 2017, the so-called basic allowance - the amount that is tax-free in any case, because he secures the subsistence level - at 8820 euros.
Anyone who should bear the costs for the break at the end left Klingbeil open. In question would come the state, the employer, or the person concerned himself, by giving up some of his wages for some time.
In contrast, Klingbeil declined a general basic income. "I am convinced that work has a very central value," said the SPD General Secretary convinced. Work creates identity, self-esteem and keeps society together. Therefore, a basic income year is linked to someone working.