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Berlin (dpa / bb) - Berlin's Senator for the Interior, Andreas Geisel, considers the quota for people with a migration background in the public service intended by Integration Senator Elke Breitenbach (left) to be unconstitutional.
"Our Basic Law says no one may be favored or disadvantaged based on their origin, gender, ethnicity, sexuality," said the SPD politician to the "Tagesspiegel" (Wednesday).
In the case of women and people with disabilities, this could have been supplemented by laws, said Geisel: “But those are tough criteria!
The migration background is a voluntary information - we do not get beyond a benchmark.
Well meant is not well done, ”said Geisel.
Integration Senator Breitenbach has written the quota in a bill.
Accordingly, there should be as many people with foreign roots in the administration as in the population.
Their share in the administration is currently estimated at 12 percent - in the Berlin population it is 35 percent.
According to the draft, people with a migrant background should be given preference if they are equally well qualified and the quota has not yet been reached.
The German Association of Officials rejected the proposal.
Geisel referred in the "Tagesspiegel" to the advice of the constitutional lawyer in his administration: Accordingly, a quota in the current form would fail before the labor courts.
However, Geisel insisted that there was "complete agreement" about the goal of bringing more people with a migrant background and people of color into the public service.
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