Senate Department for Integration, Labor and Social Affairs

Senate Department for Integration, Labor and Social Affairs - SenIAS -
State level	Berlin
position	Supreme state authority
Headquarters	Berlin
Authority management	Elke Breitenbach , Senator for Integration, Labor and Social Affairs
Web presence	www.berlin.de

The Berlin Senate Department for Integration, Labor and Social Affairs (SenIAS for short) is one of ten specialist administrations of the Berlin Senate with the rank of a state ministry and as such part of the state government as well as the supreme state authority responsible for integration , labor market and social policy in the German capital .

The current Senator for Social Affairs has been Elke Breitenbach ( Die Linke ) since December 2016 . It is supported by the two state secretaries Daniel Tietze (Die Linke) for integration and Alexander Fischer (Die Linke) for labor and social affairs.

Tasks and organization

The Senate Department for Integration, Labor and Social Affairs is divided into three main departments and a cross-sectional department for the central service:

• Department I - Integration and Migration
• Department II - Work and Vocational Training (including labor market, collective bargaining and qualification policy)
• Department III - Social (including SGB II and XII as well as integration assistance for people with disabilities)
• Department ZS - Central Service (including personnel and finances)

Berlin's labor and social senators since 2006

On November 23, 2006, the Senate Department for Labor and Social Affairs was newly formed from the work departments of the former Senate Department for Economics, Labor and Women and Social Affairs of the former Senate Department for Health, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection.

Senator	Political party	Start of office	End of office	Department designation
Heide Knake-Werner	The left	November 23, 2006	October 14, 2009	Integration, work and social issues
Carola Bluhm	The left	October 15, 2009	November 24, 2011
Dilek Kolat	SPD	November 30, 2011	December 8, 2016	Work, integration and women
Elke Breitenbach	The left	December 8, 2016	in office	Integration, work and social issues

Web links

• Official website of the Berlin Senate Department for Integration, Labor and Social Affairs

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Head of the Senate Department for Integration, Labor and Social Affairs , accessed on May 11, 2017
2. ↑ Administration. November 1, 2019, accessed May 8, 2020 .