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Neue Arbeit is the name of various institutions within Diakonie Deutschland that support, qualify and employ long-term unemployed and disabled people. The facilities are among the working aid providers. They each operate independently, but have similar goals and approaches.

Name and story

Some of the roots of the individual new work companies go back to the beginnings of diakonia in the 19th century. At that time committed personalities or church groups tried to enable people to live independently through work or training. A permanent working aid developed after the Second World War.

In 1978 the Diakonisches Werk der Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland (EKD) launched a nationwide program for the employment of unemployed people who were difficult to place. Societies were founded all over Germany under the name “Neue Arbeit”, which often bundled the activities within the Protestant work aid. In these societies, “new work”, that is, “unfinished, socially useful work”, should be done by unemployed people who otherwise had no chance on the labor market. Legal changes and cuts have been forcing the new job companies since 2000 to reorient themselves and to generate a large part of their financing on the market themselves.

Goals and target groups

The most important goal of the new job companies is to bring people permanently into the general job market. For this purpose, qualifications and support measures are usually offered. If this is not possible, those affected should be given publicly funded employment temporarily or permanently. The target groups are all people who have little or no chance of finding a job on their own in the general labor market. These include, for example:

  • Long-term unemployed
  • Disabled person
  • single women
  • Young people who have dropped out of training
  • People without school or professional qualifications
  • People who are chronically ill
  • Addicts
  • mentally ill
  • Women in problematic situations
  • Refugees and migrants
  • People over 50

activities

The measures can be divided into social support, qualification, employment and placement.

Social support

  • Addiction counseling
  • Debt counseling / help with financial difficulties
  • Help with homelessness and looking for accommodation
  • Help with mental problems and illnesses
  • Support with applications and contact with authorities
  • Help during training

Qualification

  • Support with graduation
  • Training opportunities
  • Catch up on the secondary school leaving certificate
  • Orientation projects for training and work
  • Training opportunities with a chamber degree
  • Part-time training (e.g. for single parents)

Employment opportunities

Employment should stabilize the life of those affected, structure the day, give self-confidence and impart professional skills. Depending on the situation of the person concerned and the legal possibilities, there are very different employment opportunities. They range from getting a taste of a professional area to open-ended, publicly funded employment for people who no longer have a chance on the general job market. Typical fields of employment are:

  • Gardening and landscaping
  • recycling
  • Household resolutions
  • Second-hand department stores
  • Grocery retail
  • Painting and varnishing work
  • Wood and metal working
  • Bicycle workshop
  • Gastronomy / housekeeping
  • Electrical manufacturing
  • Neighborhood help
  • Cleaning work
  • Playground construction
  • laundry
  • Nursing support

There are also areas such as television production, press and media, layout, accounting, administration and educational support.

Mediation

The most important goal is placement in the general labor market. The new job companies use contacts to local companies, the diakonia or the church. In some cases there are also temporary employment agencies. Another option is to take on permanent employment within your own company that is subject to social security contributions.

financing

Due to multiple cuts in the federal budget, the work aid providers are now largely generating the required funds themselves. Subsidies from the public sector come primarily from the Employment Agency or the job centers, the European Social Fund and local authorities. Foundations and sponsors also provide support in some cases.

Discussion about competitive neutrality

For many years, the job aid providers have repeatedly met with criticism. The main points of criticism are the subsidies from the public sector (EU, federal government, local authorities). The job aid providers could thus offer their products and services cheaper on the market. That is a distortion of competition. Politicians have already reacted to this criticism and have tied financial support for job opportunities to the criteria of “competition-neutral”, “additional” and “in the public interest”.

From the perspective of the employment agency, financial support is necessary: ​​Long-term unemployed people have a structural disadvantage in the labor market, so that their employment requires more effort. They also point out that the individual projects are coordinated with the chambers, trade unions and local politicians. In addition, most of the projects are geared towards the common good, for example providing material poor relief, further training or environmental protection.

From the point of view of the new job companies, the existing legal restrictions (non-competitive, additionality, public interest) are counterproductive. They restricted the opportunities to employ long-term unemployed people close to the real labor market. It would be better to create the possibility for commercial enterprises to take on long-term unemployed people as part of publicly subsidized employment. Diakonie promotes this with the “Initiative pro Arbeit” and has developed the passive-active transfer (PAT) as a financing model.

List of diaconal new work companies

Advocacy

The evangelical and diaconal support providers are organized in the Evangelical Association for Work Aid and Social Integration (EFAS). He currently represents 523 organizations throughout Germany. 50,000 participants are in training and employment with the providers. The EFAS also represents the interests of the executing agencies politically and demands, above all, the permanent introduction of publicly funded employment, which is to be financed by the passive-active transfer (PAT) .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from February 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.neuektiven.com
  2. ↑ The social enterprise NEUE ARBEIT gGmbH in Stuttgart and its commercial subsidiary generated around 60 million euros in 2014. This includes around 9.8 million euros from public funds. Source: Annual report of the Evangelical Society Stuttgart ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file), page 34 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eva-stuttgart.de
  3. ↑ http://www.efas-web.de/index.php/wir-ueber-uns/habenstruktur