Heil is promoting training bonuses There should be no “Corona vintage”

Status: 06/22/2021 05:07

The second year of training since the beginning of the corona pandemic begins in September. The federal government supports training companies with training bonuses, but Labor Minister Heil is still worried about a corona kink on the apprenticeship market. Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil sees the German training market facing a critical phase after months of the pandemic. The number of apprenticeships like applicants had already decreased last year, said the minister. Figures from the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training prove this. The test comes this summer, “Heil told the Funke media group. “We are currently fighting the clock as the training year begins on September 1st.” It is clear: “We are not allowed to allow a Corona class in training.”

6000 euros bonus per apprenticeship position

Many companies were hesitant at the moment because they believed they could not afford apprentices at the moment. Heil called on companies to make greater use of state support offers such as the training bonus. The bonus has been approved for almost 40,000 training positions since last summer.

Heil pointed out that the new protective umbrella for training has been in place since the beginning of June. The premium was also doubled in March. Companies affected by a pandemic that keep their training quota have been receiving EUR 4,000 per apprenticeship position since the beginning of June, and EUR 6,000 for new trainee positions.

According to the Federal Ministry of Labor, the program has a total volume of 410 million euros for the current year. By mid-June, around 88 million euros, almost a fifth, had been paid out

In return for planned aid from the federal government in the Corona crisis at Deutsche Bahn, the board of directors should forego bonuses. This emerges from a decision of the budget committee of the Bundestag, which is available to the German press agency. According to the resolution, the Management Board of Deutsche Bahn AG will be asked to forego variable remuneration or comparable remuneration components, special payments, profit sharing or other separate remuneration in 2022 for the 2021 financial year. In view of the corona crisis, the group management board had not received any bonuses for the past year.

Help against bonuses

The federally owned Deutsche Bahn is dependent on federal financial aid, as the Corona crisis had caused a slump in passenger numbers. The result was a record loss of 5.7 billion euros in 2020. In order to cope with the loss, the federal government had already announced billions in aid. An increase in equity by five billion euros is planned. However, the payment is dependent on the approval of the EU Commission. It must ensure that the aid does not put competitors at a disadvantage. One of the requirements of the EU is said to have included the executive board’s waiver of bonuses, as the “Spiegel” reported.

Criticism from the union side

The discussion about the Executive Board bonuses for the current year was therefore held intensively. In January, the federal chairman of the Union of German Locomotive Drivers (GDL), Claus Weselsky, criticized the DB board of directors saying that “their own bonuses are obviously more important than the weal and woe of the railway system”. The DB board did not want to tighten their belts despite Corona, but demanded that from the direct staff, according to Weselsky. The Green budget politician Sven-Christian Kindler said: “There is no question that the board of directors cannot get bonuses in view of the billions in aid. Right so that the budget committee has clarified that again.”

Reform of the remuneration rules

Kindler also demanded that the bonus regulations for the rail board would have to be fundamentally revised and reduced for the time after Corona. In general, the federal government must ensure that the board of directors is remunerated with moderation and moderation. According to Kindler, it could not be that the variable remuneration, i.e. the bonus payments, was as high as the fixed salary in the last few years before Corona. The current freeze on bonuses is the ideal opportunity to reform the remuneration regulations for the railway management board.

Agreement with Brussels soon?

The negotiations between the German government and the EU Commission should be on the home straight. Significant progress has been made, reported the dpa news agency, citing government circles. The aim is to find an “industry solution” from which not only Deutsche Bahn but also the competition should benefit. The focus is on lowering train path prices, for example in rail freight transport. This is now stored in the planned supplementary federal budget for 2021. In return, when the federal government plans to increase equity for Deutsche Bahn, there should no longer be any competition requirements for the group. The aim is a “modular solution” totaling around five billion euros.

Attending the ceremony were comrades: Lieutenant General Tran Don, Standing Member of the Central Military Commission, Deputy Minister of National Defense; Lt. Gen. Vu Hai San, Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Minister of National Defense; Nguyen Thi Kim Tien, Head of Central Staff Health Protection Department.

The delegates attended the ceremony

Over the past 75 years of building, fighting and growing up, under the leadership of the Central Military Commission, the Ministry of National Defense, the military medical sector has continuously developed in all aspects, making an important contribution to the cause of civil liberation. clan, build and defend the Fatherland. Through the two resistance wars against the French colonialists and the American imperialists, the military medicine branch promptly treated more than 500,000 wounded soldiers, more than 1.5 million sick soldiers, of which nearly 60% were wounded and more than 80% were sick. Get back to the battlefield to join the fight.

In recent years, with the attention of all levels, the material foundations and equipment of the whole industry have been invested in upgrading; The face of hospitals, schools and military medical establishments has been renovated, spacious, professional quality has been strengthened and improved. The major hospitals of the industry and many other military medical facilities have been newly built, equipped with modern equipment, with the world’s leading equipment, creating conditions for improving the quality of training, first aid, treatment and treatment. wounded soldiers, sick soldiers, soldiers and people. Military medicine at all levels has operated, exploited and effectively used modern equipment, applied and deployed many new techniques, high technology, specialized techniques such as tissue transplant, organ transplant, multi transplant. organs, limb transplant from living donors, lung transplant …

In addition, the military medical sector has actively researched and renovated methods to ensure appropriate military health, associating the task of ensuring military medicine with the people’s health system, with building defense areas, and mobilizing medical mobilization force to serve defense duties.

Lieutenant General Vu Hai San attached the Medal of Military Achievement, Second Class to the Military Medicine Department’s Victory Campaign

With outstanding achievements in the past 75 years, units in the military medical industry have been awarded by the State 2 Gold Star Medals, 4 Ho Chi Minh Medals; 94 units and 60 individuals were awarded the title Hero of the People’s Armed Forces (LLVT) and Labor Hero; 121 comrades were conferred the title of People’s Physician; many collectives and individuals were awarded with medals, medals and other noble awards. In particular, in 2020, the 108 Military Central Hospital was awarded the title of Labor Hero, 175 Military Hospital was awarded the title of Hero of the People’s Army Corps, and the Department of Military Medicine was awarded the Medal of Military Class. Second.

Speaking at the ceremony, Lieutenant General Vu Hai San acknowledged and praised the achievements of generations of military medical cadres and soldiers during the past 75 years; With the spirit of selfless service, with intellectual and creative scientific and technical labor, it has made many outstanding achievements in the task of caring for and protecting the health of the army and people. In order to continue promoting the results achieved in the coming time, Lt. Gen. Vu Hai San suggested that the Military Medical branch continue to promote the spirit of initiative, creativity, promote scientific research, and improve the quality of medical examination and treatment. ; regularly improve combat readiness, organize military medical services, and be ready to respond when there are military situations and high-tech war.

Authorized by the State President, Lieutenant General Vu Hai San awarded the Decision and attached the Medal of Second Class Military Merit to the Military Medical Department’s Victory Military. /.