The employers' association BDA accuses the Greens, SPD and Left of planning a “firework of burdens” for the economy in their programs for the federal election.
The President of the Federal Association of German Employers' Associations (BDA), Rainer Dulger, warned on Tuesday, when presenting an eight-point paper on the upcoming election, above all against an increase in social contributions.
Without reforms, there is a risk of exceeding the 40 percent mark of gross wages.
Dulger, on the other hand, largely supported the election manifesto of the FDP.
He also rated the first statements by Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet (CDU) positively.
The association also called for the digitization of education to be given "top priority" and for children's interest in science to be strengthened.
Overregulation threatens climate protection and destroys prosperity.
The BDA wants a technology-open regulation that does not exclude synthetic fuels.
The previous federal government made up of the Union and the SPD accused the BDA of promising more flexible working hours, but not implementing it. For him, it is not about extending working hours, said Dulger. In the planned supply chain law, which has been passed in the cabinet but not yet in the Bundestag, the interest group sees an "objective impossibility". The law is intended to oblige companies to take responsibility for any human rights violations in their supply chain. BDA managing director Steffen Kampeter criticized the fact that companies are trusted to do more than state agencies. There is a threat of a decline in investments abroad.