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Fathers need more vacation, says the left wing of the CDU - and he wants the Union to campaign for this in the federal election campaign.
This emerges from a letter from the Christian Democratic Workers 'Union in Germany (CDA), in which they formulate, together with the workers' wing of the CSU, the demands for the election program for the chairmen and general secretaries of the Union.
WELT has the eight-page paper.
Under the subheading "Binding family time after births" it says that the bond between child and parents is particularly shaped in the first few days.
And further: “We want the family to be able to reliably spend the days after the birth together.
That is why we are introducing three days of paternity leave for fathers when a child is born. "
The topic of paternity leave was recently put on the agenda by an expert opinion commissioned by the German Federation of Trade Unions.
According to this, the Federal Republic should actually release men for ten days after the birth.
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Because the compatibility directive of the European Union, which demands a right to this in the member states, is obviously not sufficiently fulfilled by the local parental allowance regulation.
The responsible Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, headed by Franziska Giffey (SPD), refuses to take action.
The CDA's advance could give the issue a tailwind.
The association is led by Karl-Josef Laumann, currently Minister of Labor in the cabinet of the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Armin Laschet.
He, in turn, is the newly elected CDU chairman.
It should not be easy for Laschet to reconcile the interests of the various wings.
For example, the CDA demand to regulate the work contracts, which have come into disrepute due to the corona outbreaks at the Tönnies slaughterhouse, is likely to meet with little sympathy in the economic wing of the Union.
The CDA admits that these fulfilled an important function for the labor market “in their original purpose”.
Use work contracts with a sense of proportion
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But if companies use it to organize their core business, they endanger acceptance.
It is important to prevent that.
The CDA is therefore striving for a right of co-determination for works and staff councils for the use of work contracts.
Another project that is not very popular among employers and that the grand coalition should actually tackle in this legislative period: the containment of precarious employment.
“Agency work and fixed-term employment relationships are not a secure foundation for employees and their families.
They jeopardize the cohesion of society and must therefore be restricted ", it says in the letter to the Union leaders.
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In the coalition agreement, the parties had agreed to subject the fixed-term employment contracts to strict rules in the future without good reason.
But the SPD heart project has been postponed again and again due to the Corona crisis.
The chances of implementation in the remaining months are now extremely poor.
Business representatives should also listen carefully to the demanded “right to switch off”.
The CDA writes that working hours will have to be subject to statutory limits in the future as well.
Deviations from maximum working hours should only be made on the basis of collective agreements.
Even in the home office, the work performed must be "recorded, documented and, in principle, fully remunerated".
Employers should reimburse employees with a monthly flat rate for costs that arise regularly.
More security when working from home
“The employer has to provide the basic equipment for home office and mobile working”, so the demand.
The statutory accident protection should be expanded.
Self-employed people who are “not otherwise covered” should, according to the CDA, be integrated into solidarity social insurance.
It also wants to ensure that tried-and-tested occupational safety standards apply to new forms of work - such as digital platforms.
A sensitive point could also be the demand to make collective agreements easier to apply.
Only every second employee in Germany is protected by a collective agreement.
The CDA therefore wants to make it easier for such contracts to be extended to entire industries.
"In this context, we want to strengthen the role of industry employers in the collective bargaining committee and thus also help to avoid stalemates where declarations of general liability repeatedly fail," says the letter.
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Such a project in the care of the elderly has recently failed.
Binding minimum levels for wages and working conditions were planned across the board.
A corresponding application from the Ver.di union and the BVAP employers' association to Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) was rejected by the Caritas Labor Law Commission on Thursday.
Heil described this as a “bitter setback” in the fight for the betterment of geriatric nurses.
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