What lies behind the DIHK's demand for halving the basic apprentice salary and flexibilizing working hours becomes clear when you look at quotes from the DIHK chairman:
"My proposal is to introduce a nationwide basic remuneration of 270 euros," he told the newspaper "Die Welt". He justified his initiative by saying that this would allow more apprenticeships to be financed. "An apprenticeship remuneration of up to 800 euros is simply too high for many businesses."
"Working hours must be better adapted to the needs of the industries." It makes no sense that a 17-year-old restaurant specialist has to leave at 10 p.m. "if all the tables are still occupied."
This is simply about having cheap labor, but not about ensuring proper training. But these demands are not new.
And what the German economy thinks of training can be seen in the fact that the number of training positions has again decreased by 10% compared to the previous year - and thus young people have again been left without training positions, despite all the promises of the economy. Without a non-training fee for larger companies, this will not change either. But complaining that there are no trained skilled workers, the economy can do quite famously ...