Has Clement been digging too much in old East German documents? Job obligation? Are we now turning this around so that young people are themselves to blame if they don't have a job? Because if that's not the case, then there's no need for a job obligation, but simply and plainly just jobs for young people. And you simply can't ordain those by law.
How about instead of a job obligation for young people, a training obligation for employers? Combined with drastic penalties if training doesn't happen, which would then go to the employment offices for support measures? But that would probably have been too logical to get to the root of the problem ...
When I look at how few training positions large companies have set up here in Münster, I do sometimes wonder what absurd ideas are in the heads of managers about where trained skilled workers are supposed to come from. And then I run into some of them again and listen to them talk and then I know where from.
Certainly not from the brain, those ideas ...
At tagesschau on the internet there's the original article.