The Federal Minister of Labor reliably takes care of the projects that are really close to the heart of the SPD.
Even in times of change, these do not lie in the rearmament of the Bundeswehr, but in the expansion of social claims.
The pension package II, which Hubertus Heil wants to present, has the main purpose of preventing the pension level from slipping through new "stop lines" - and thus to protect the pensioners.
There should no longer be a cap on the contributions.
The planned “educational period” for employees is also balm for the social democratic soul.
Soon, the Federal Employment Agency will regularly subsidize the qualification of employees with "further training money".
Heil moves the Nuremberg authorities away from the original mandate to take care of the unemployed.
So that the new break cannot be misused for “drum courses” (Heil), the company has a say.
Nevertheless, the law does not make sense: It will lead to companies passing on their training costs to the general public and thus promotes the overstretching of the welfare state.