Worker stroke
Worker bar or work bar denotes a local point market in a city on a section of road where migrant workers or other people willing to work , mostly men, usually wait very early in the day to be employed by a potential employer for one or a few days for remuneration ( Day labor ).
The term is a current term for a countermovement to the state-regulated labor market in economically strong EU countries.
The work line is usually the only way for irregular residents to earn money for a living.
Origin of the term
The term creates a semantic connection to street prostitution . It suggests an illegal, at least disreputable character, especially since there are also people willing to work without valid registration papers. As part of the fifth and sixth enlargement of the EU ( EU eastward expansion ), the work permit conditions within the EU borders have been gradually liberalized for citizens of EU countries. As legal labor immigrants, these EU citizens become “Eastern European migrant workers ”, whose legal status in the Federal Republic is not unequivocally established in comparison to asylum seekers or stateless persons. Seasonal workers and the holders of a trade license are considered self-employed and can legally offer manual or physical services (on a temporary basis).
meaning
The market mechanism of labor supply and labor demand unfolds free floating on the workers line . The price for work (hourly wages) is freely agreed. Often by eye contact and the number of fingers shown, an offer is made in euros per hour. The job seekers who first agree will usually be given employment for one day (see Heuer ).
Workers' demand is private individuals and subcontractors who simply outsource skilled jobs to people who are easily interchangeable. Mainly there are activities in construction and ancillary trades such as B. walls, tiles, plastering and laying or in the logistics industry with packaging, loading and palletizing. The promised wage is not always certain for the person doing the work at the end of the day.
For some employers, the hiring trip to the workers' line is embarrassing; this is why new market forums for the commodity work ( gig economy ) are emerging on the Internet with an increasing tendency ; and as with Ebay and Co. employers and job seekers can bid and increase under pseudonyms. The limits are only determined by supply and demand and are subject to ongoing changes. a. are seasonal, regional or time-dependent.
Conflict situations
The German trade union federation DGB is trying to improve the livelihood of job seekers in Germany with the “Minimum Wage” initiative. The DGB can advocate for employees who are looking for or have a regular employment relationship subject to social insurance .
The principle of freedom of contract in price negotiations (especially in the case of contracts for work and services ) between self-employed persons in the EU cannot be captured by trade union representatives, so that wages below the statutory minimum wage are in fact agreed (compare economic issues: minimum wage , minimum price ).
The German pension insurance and the German social security institutions have specific reporting and insurance obligations for non- employed (not permanent) employees in the event of a professional employment relationship, both for the employee and for the employer (see publication of May 31, 2000). There, non-permanent employees are defined as employees “who have professional activities of less than a week. These are people who in their main occupation only have a very short duration of employment (less than a week) and, according to their job description, are busy here, sometimes there, today with this, tomorrow with that job EU self-employed on the working-class actually meet the criteria of the definition of discontinuous workers, their protective rights and insurance obligations fall. The avoidance of the reporting obligations and the social security contributions cause the wage price difference, cause the phenomenon of workers' strike and, in contrast to illegal work, establish a legal ( semi- official) labor market.
distribution
So far known German cities for the existence of a workers line are Munich, Hamburg, Cologne, Dortmund, Duisburg and Frankfurt. In the Austrian capital of Vienna , too, such workers' lines exist with the section out of town on Triester Straße , starting from Südtiroler Platz , and the Lerchenfelder Gürtel .
Individual evidence
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- ↑ http://www.hwwi.org/publikationen/publikationen-einzelansicht/teilweise-oeffnung-des-deutschen-arbeitsmarkts-fuer-bulgarische-und-rumaenische-arbeitnehmer-ab-dem-1///6480.html
- ↑ Second-class misery - How German municipalities are abandoning the East European homeless ( Memento from January 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Monitor No. 643 from January 24, 2013
- ↑ http://www.bild.de/regional/frankfurt/frankfurt-am-main/an-der-ezb-grossbaustelle-18057408.bild.html
- ↑ http://www.mindestlohn.de/
- ↑ http://www.deutsche-rentenversicherung.de/Allgemein/de/Inhalt/3_Fachgebiete/02_arbeitgeber_steuerberater/01_betriebspruefdienst/02_publikationen/03_rundschreiben/2000/2000_05_31_Anlagen.html ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was created automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.deutsche-rentenversicherung.de/cae/servlet/contentblob/204824/publicationFile/1965/2000_05_31_Anlagen.pdf (page 7)
- ↑ Der Spiegel : Lost in Europe , October 22, 2018
- ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/region/rhein_ruhr/duisburg-hochfeld-ein-stadtteil-bekaempft-den-absturz-id6170781.html
- ^ Workers' line: Modern day laborers
- ↑ This is Vienna's new workers line , Vienna today. July 8, 2012
