District council would like to oblige all refugees to work. The association president is now calling for compulsory work – even in private companies.
In the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia, asylum seekers will in future be used for community service work. You are paid 80 cents per hour, an allowance set out in the Asylum Act. If the asylum seekers refuse to work, they are threatened with having their money withdrawn. But it must be possible to do more than just sweep the park, says Sager.