Politicians from the CDU, CSU and Free Voters want to oblige the long-term unemployed to do charitable work.
He was thinking of such a regulation for people "who receive benefits from the state and are not ready to integrate into the labor market," said the CDU chairman of Saxony-Anhalt, Sven Schulze, of the newspaper Bild on Thursday.
According to this, the unemployed could sweep leaves or collect rubbish, for example.
The main aim is to "facilitate the reintegration of the long-term unemployed into working life," said Berlin's CDU parliamentary group leader Burkard Dregger.
The chairman of the Free Voters, Hubert Aiwanger, welcomed the following: Many long-term unemployed people could “return to a normal working life if they are made fit for the primary job market through charitable work”.
The CSU interior expert Michael Kuffer hopes for the unemployed "appreciation and a personal relationship with our community". Hamburg's CDU boss Christoph Ploß referred to a bill from Denmark, according to the picture, where the government forced the integration of immigrants with an obligation to work want.