Жертвы капитализма
Жертвы не какого-нибудь забитого и недоразвитого рынка в убогих постсоциалистических государствах, в которых ему не дали как следует развиться в ногу с всеобщими тенденциями из-за наследия тупых совков, а самого что ни на есть классического капитализма в его колыбели- Великобритании.
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Leiharbeit... I think the proper translation is "subcontracted work" to describe it. Some firm whose business it is ONLY to lend workers to other firms who need the work power in a certain skill territory (sometimes it only says that on the paper, in the reality you might have to do all kinds of tasks like a general servant), but they pay way less than if the firm who makes use of your work power directly employed you. Also, for Leiharbeit the conditions for dismissal protection are like non-existant.
Zeitverträge - contracts which only employ you for a certain amount of time safely.
This is a big one, as quite a big chunk of people just get only employed by these and, whenever one contract would be fulfilled, the only chance for employment after that which you get offered is another one of these limited-time contracts.
Some people just go from limited-time contract to another limited-time contract - and this over years...
Think, other thing that results in similar result to this is "Probezeit" (probation period).
I don't know if there are still jobs out there who come without them... Say, if just a lot of new jobs just come with the condition "half a year is your probation period", if there's anything in that time episode which disturbs your employer or he simply wants cheap working power which he can drop as he pleases, then you might imagine what comes with this.
People in their Probezeit episode, they got no dismissal protection in the tinyest bit.
If your employer wants to get rid of you, be without any responsibility, then he best sets a long probation period for you to prove yourself. (Don't know if there might be judicial limits here!)
...Say, it works someway similar to the Leiharbeit issue. "Drop it like it's hot"...
And then, the 400-/450-Euro-jobs, those are a worker's pest in a couple of ways.
I think that may come close to the zero hour contracts.
Often the amount of hours your pile up on paper equal more that to half of a job. "Hourly work", you can say.
That's why the payment also is that low.
Often those get treated and advertised as "your possibility to get a step into a branch to, one day, acquire a full-time job".
In the reality, this is very, very rarely the case.
But practically, instead, people are all too often expected to do the same amount of work like full-time employees, also the same quality like a skilled person; meanwhile it has even become the way they don't even let an unskilled person who didn't make an apprenticeship in the demanded branch at least into the job at all - so to say, you need formal qualification to end up at a job which only pays you half or maybe even a third of what you'd get in a full-time job of your profession... Jobs which originally were intended for people who just exactly didn't have that. That for your really like to invest in your education... right?
And, something that occurs with them is: The working hours can really be kept very "flexible", which means you rather work when you get called to do s. It depends on the employer, how he "needs" you and the branch if you got your firm reliable hours at firm set times of the week or if you don't.
Formally, those jobs aren't different before law than regular jobs, but you can think for yourself what kind of resources you have if you want to go to the court for something against your employer, right?
So, these are practically more like real "hire and fire".
Another disadvantage of them is: They are already liable to payments to like state pension fund and health insurance, but the amount paid to these are pretty low, as the earning isn't very high.
So, these are also a source of poverty in old age if people kept working in those for long throughout their work lives, as your guaranteed state pension depends on your payments into it. Low payments - low pension.
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Social benefits, Hartz IV, require you these days to take every job that you get offered. Otherwise you lose your benefits.
So... if you don't interchange between jobs immediately yourself, so you'll never get in need of these and lose your freedom to chose as you please, then you'll very likely be forced to deal with these forms of precarious work. As barely anything else gets offered as the "first step into a job".
And leaving yourself from a job also leaves you 3 months without a right to claim social benefits - so, you can think for yourself, why people keep these.
Think in the UK there was something similar to that... If you come from unemployment and social benefits, you can't turn down any job, no matter how dirty and unsuitable it is and no matter how much you get exploited in it.
If you turn down, you'll need a sponsor to keep yourself fed, otherwise you're left without a penny and without any claim against the state to give you money for survival. Although it offically still still maintains the reputation of "social market economy".
...No miracle then that this system can go on and on existing, right?
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I wonder the same thing myself.
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It's something I see and hear happening quite often.
Until people don't get into touch with it themselves, even how unfair it is, they're often pretty blind about it. Also they don't know much about it.
People who have, those are like always running in the treadmills. Deal with it, try to not go to the dogs.
And those who already have, or who have fallen out of the system through any factor, those all complain about not receiving any fair chance to prove "hey, I'm still alive, I can do something! I'm not like retarded or broken or something!". They have to struggle with the reality of getting treaded like... something without a brain and without resources to get useful to society.
Well... you know, often it is me who has, like, the job to act as the "voice of doom" - one thing are those circumstances who keep the system up and running.
Another thing is - and this is based on experience of watching politics for a long time already -: People don't go to the barricades so easily anymore. Things have come to a state of "barely anyone cares".
If you think something must make anybody move because it's so drastic - better don't believe in that, something might happen temporarily, there might also be nothing happening at all. All walking past it, swallowing the pill, and pretending like they don't see it.
This is my résumé from watching precarious circumstances getting worse and worse with the years over time.
There may be a few people who care, but it will barely make the big step to interest everyone.
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Although, and that's why I haven't checked anything out there anymore in a while, they took a way too much sensational and especially aggressive ram-my-opinion-down-your-throat attitude for themselves, which more or less often also meets the tone of the current far right.
The other link I don't know. (And, admittedly, going through the headlines of the articles is already enough for me.)
PS: Hope it wasn't the wrong language I picked out as I couldn't say how much you'd understand it if I wrote it in German.
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