Job-AQTIV law
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Law to reform labor market policy instruments |
| Short title: | Job-AQTIV law |
| Type: | Federal law |
| Scope: | Federal Republic of Germany |
| Legal matter: | Social law |
| Issued on: | December 10, 2001 ( BGBl. I p. 3443 ) |
| Entry into force on: | January 1, 2002 |
| Please note the note on the applicable legal version. | |
The Job-AQTIV law from 2001 was used to reorganize employment promotion ; the abbreviation AQTIV stands for the leitmotif " activate, qualify, train, invest, mediate ". It was created in the context of the alliance for work, training and competitiveness and represents a direct forerunner of the so-called Hartz laws , as it already contains a large number of instruments that reappear in the Hartz concept .
Legislative process
The Job-AQTIV law was introduced by the parliamentary groups of the SPD and the Greens under Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and finally passed by the Federal Cabinet on September 19, 2001, by the Bundestag on November 9, 2001 and finally by the Federal Council on November 30, 2001 (Federal Law Gazette I 2001 No. 66 of December 14, 2001).
Content and measures
The law changed numerous legal norms from SGB III, IV, V, VI, IX and XI as well as the Temporary Employment Act , the Works Constitution Act and the Labor Court Act .
Central goals of the law were u. a. to avoid long-term unemployment , to promote individual employability, to strengthen preventive labor market policy, to make labor market policy more flexible, to improve employment opportunities for older people, to promote equality between women and men in the labor market and to expand social security in the event of unemployment .
Are regulated u. a. the following employment promotion measures:
- Adoption of the regulations from the youth program ( Jusopro )
- Subsidies for the costs of an internship (" Work and qualification for young people who are not yet suitable for training ", AQJ)
- Promotion of measures to activate young people through grants of up to 50 percent of the costs of the measure
- Promotion of the providers of external training measures through a placement bonus (promotion of disadvantaged people )
- Facilitate the supply of temporary workers ( temporary employment )
- Introduction of job rotation
- Increase of the five percent exception rate for women to ten percent through job creation measures
- Reduction of the reasonableness regulations for taking up an activity
- Introduction of compulsory registration in the event of impending unemployment
- Reimbursement of childcare costs when participating in activities of vocational education and training as well as training measures
- Intensification of job placement and advice through profiling , preparation of opportunity forecasts and aptitude tests
- Inclusion agreement
- Possibility of commissioning third parties with the placement of job seekers
In the Job-AQTIV Act , an active state labor market policy was even more in the foreground, while the focus of the subsequent Hartz Acts (2003-2005) shifted completely to activating labor market policy (" Demand and Promote ").
criticism
The Job-AQTIV law was largely rejected by unemployment initiatives; For example, the binding integration agreement was viewed primarily as an instrument of repression and the possibility of engaging third parties was noted with concern. The lowering of the reasonableness criteria was perceived primarily as an instrument of dequalification .
Trade unions, on the other hand, particularly emphasized the potentially positive aspects of the law and largely supported the project. The law also met with approval from the central associations of industry and trade.
Web links
- Job-AQTIV-Law: Employment-Creating Infrastructure Funding (BSI) ( Memento from October 15, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (Information sheet of the Federal Employment Agency, PDF file; 678 kB)
- Christian Brinkmann: The Job-AQTIV law: Evaluation between compulsory action and solid craftsmanship (IAB, March 21, 2002; PDF file; 13 kB)
