Placement scandal

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The placement scandal , including the employment office affair , employment office scandal and Jagoda scandal , is a scandal about manipulation within the Federal Labor Office from 2002. The placement scandal led to the Hartz reforms .

Procedure and effects

After Erwin Bixler , Controller of the State Labor Office Rhineland-Palatinate - Saarland , noticed such manipulations even before 1998, which even went back to the 1980s, but the matter remained largely unnoticed, the mediation scandal essentially resulted from a warning from the Federal Court of Auditors in January 2002, which was now spread in the leading and tabloid media (including with Bixler's state of siege for several days and an interview in his living room).

In its 2002 report, the Federal Audit Office notified the Federal Labor Office about their grave errors in the placement statistics. Around a third of the placements were incomprehensible and partly fictitious, other sources speak of up to 70% "wrong job placements". Coined numbers using “fictitious SteA” - the technical term used in employment offices for fictitious “job offers” - should have a positive effect on the statistics . This earned the BA the accusation of manipulation in the press and in public . The number of administrative staff (around 85,000) in relation to the number of intermediaries (around 15,000) was also criticized.

Initially, the placement scandal led to the resignation and retirement of Bernhard Jagoda , then president of the Federal Employment Agency in Nuremberg. Media and political pressure soon put the then government under pressure to act. Thus, the scandal continued to lead to the early convocation and appointment of the Hartz Commission and the draft of the Hartz concept , which the Federal Government , the first Schröder cabinet , then decided and converted into laws to reform the labor market with the abbreviations Hartz I, Hartz II , Hartz III and Hartz IV gradually came into force between 2003 and 2005. This led to today's social and labor market situation subsumed under the term " Hartz IV ", the financial aspects of which are dealt with under the term unemployment benefit II . Part of this above “Turning point” was also a conceptual change: In addition to the new concept of the Federal Agency (instead of the Federal Agency), it was also decided to create and redefine the so-called “ job center ”.

Chronological events

  • 1998 and before: Erwin Bixler , Controller of the State Labor Office Rhineland-Palatinate - Saarland , had already noticed corresponding manipulations before 1998, which even went back to the 1980s,
  • January 2002: The Federal Audit Office complained about the manipulation of placement statistics. This became public knowledge.
  • February 21, 2002: It became known that Bernhard Jagoda should have known about it for years. On February 21, 2002, Jagoda resigned from this post after massive public pressure. Florian Gerster was his successor .
  • February 22, 2002: The Commission for Modern Services on the Labor Market - called Hartz Commission for short - was set up on February 22, 2002 and met in Germany under the direction of Peter Hartz .
  • August 2002: The Hartz Commission presents its report. She made suggestions on how labor market policy in Germany should be made more efficient and state employment agencies reformed.
  • Between 2003 and 2005 the laws for reforming the labor market with the abbreviations Hartz I, Hartz II, Hartz III and Hartz IV came into force step by step:
    • In 2003 the Hartz I and Hartz II laws came into force.
    • As of January 1st, 2004 the new name of the employment office is: Federal Employment Agency .
    • In 2004 the Hartz III law came into force, which provided for the restructuring of the labor administration into a “modern, customer-oriented service authority”.
    • In 2005 the fourth law for modern services on the labor market , known as Hartz IV for short , came into force.

Refurbishment and further development

In June 2013, another audit report from the Federal Audit Office became known, in which manipulations were criticized to a considerable extent. However, this audit report was dated November 7, 2012 and - presumably due to the events in 2002 - was kept secret from the public for months. Despite this procedure and despite the content of the audit report, which is far more scandalous than the one from 2002, the report under the name Communication to the Federal Employment Agency on the review of the control of target achievement in the strategic business areas I and V a hardly received any media or public attention. Its content was self-explanatory insofar as the BA in it u. a. “Consequences under personnel law and criminal law” were suggested. Der Spiegel article With all means from June 24, 2013 published extensive details from the report on "a system that the Court of Auditors now describes as sick in this report, downright insane, but at least misled." As from the report of the Federal Court of Auditors to the According to the budget committee of the German Bundestag , the Spiegel article from June 24 attracted a great deal of political attention internally and led to numerous correspondence and, among other things. a. Debates in the budget committee and the labor and social affairs committee before the Bundestag. Furthermore, the report was "the subject of an urgent question" in a plenary session of the German Bundestag. On the other hand, it also led to anger. On the day of publication in June 2013, the Federal Audit Office reported to the chairman of the audit committee of the budget committee of the German Bundestag. It states that the Spiegel article is based “on indiscretions”, the source of which is “not known” to the Federal Audit Office. They now want to carry out the information "according to the agreed procedure" and have sent "the audit notification" to the responsible persons in a letter of the same name, so that - after publication by Spiegel and 8 months after the report was drawn up - the Bundestag also informed about its content will. Although the Spiegel now again speaks of a “scandal” in 2013 and that despite the Hartz reforms at the time, a “fraud mentality” was evident, “which apparently runs through the entire Federal Employment Agency”, despite the internal debate and - sporadic - in contrast to the placement scandal of 2002, ten years later no personal, political, organizational or legal consequences became known to the media. The Federal Employment Agency wants to “change its target system” - valid from 2014 -, it says in the letter. "In November 2013" she informed the Federal Audit Office "comprehensively about the changed target system". The Federal Audit Office now wants to "monitor further developments".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Audit report of the internal audit of the Landesarbeitsamt Rheinlandpfalz-Saarland, Erwin Bixler, September 30, 1998 ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2014 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.anstageslicht.de
  2. ↑ “The manipulations: a detailed chronology of all events” , DokZentrum, ansTageslicht.de
  3. ↑ The history at a glance , DokZentrum, ansTageslicht.de
  4. ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education, The Public Employment Service , u. a. under What was the so-called "mediation scandal"? Tim Obermeier, Frank Oschmiansky from January 31, 2014
  5. ^ Employment office affair: Jagoda had been informed since 1998 . In: Spiegel Online , February 9, 2002
  6. ↑ Employment office scandal: Hangover for Jagoda . In: Spiegel Online , February 15, 2002
  7. ^ The manipulations: a detailed chronology of all events , DokZentrum, ansTageslicht.de
  8. ↑ Audit report of the internal auditing department of the Rhineland-Palatinate-Saarland State Labor Office, Erwin Bixler, September 30, 1998
  9. ↑ www.arbeitsagentur.de - Short chronicle of the Federal Employment Agency
  10. ↑ Accusation of the Federal Audit Office: Employment agency manipulates placement statistics.In: Spiegel Online , June 23, 2013
  11. ↑ Federal Audit Office accuses employment agency of manipulation. In: Focus Online , June 23, 2013
  12. ↑ Court of Auditors complains about the employment agency. In: Freie Presse , June 24, 2013
  13. ↑ Communication to the Federal Employment Agency on the review of the control of target achievement in strategic business areas I and V a , Bonn, November 7, 2012
  14. ↑ Accusation of the Federal Audit Office: Employment agency manipulates placement statistics.In: Spiegel Online , June 23, 2013
  15. ↑ Jürgen Dahlkamp; Markus Dettmer; Janko Tietz: "With all means" , Der Spiegel 26/2013, June 24, 2013, accessed on April 1, 2015.
  16. ↑ Report of the Federal Audit Office to the budget committee of the German Bundestag according to § 88 Abs. 2 BHO on the control of target achievement in the strategic business areas I and Va of the Federal Employment Agency , Bonn, May 27, 2014, page 4, accessed on April 4, 2015
  17. ^ Letter from the Federal Court of Auditors to the Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Budget Committee of the German Bundestag, Dr. Michael Luther, on the occasion of the SPIEGEL article ( memento of April 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), June 24, 2013, pages 1–2, accessed on April 4, 2015
  18. ↑ Report of the Federal Audit Office to the budget committee of the German Bundestag according to § 88 Abs. 2 BHO on the control of target achievement in the strategic business areas I and Va of the Federal Employment Agency , Bonn, May 27, 2014, pages 5 and 3, accessed on 4. April 2015