“ÖVP is urgently called on to ‘reverse’ to ‘reverse’ when it comes to social and labor market policy!”

As a “dangerous threat”, Markus Koza, the work and social spokesman for the Greens, criticizes the leaked plans of FPÖ and ÖVP in the area of ​​social and labor market policy: “The FPÖ is hardly waving the chancellorship, it is quickly over again with the so-called, social ‘ Home party. So plans have come to light at the weekend, which in the social area again radical cuts, mean on hell come out. Just as we already know from the past from the FPÖ. “

According to Leak, FPÖ and ÖVP plan to abolish the coupling of the increase in social welfare to the compensation allowance that full social assistance only granted the full social welfare after several years of fully insured employment and that family allowance and other social benefits are counted towards social assistance. It is also apparently being considered to convert social assistance for employable to the ‘payment card’. “All of these planned changes represent a guaranteed impoverishment and a cynical degree of degradation,” says Koza and further: “The social welfare reform carried out under short and strach ended in chaos. The Constitutional Court picked up large parts, remaining a stain carpet. According to the published protocols, the last social network is to be completely torn. There is nothing more to avoid poverty. “

We need a sensible reform – such as general protection of children including comprehensive poverty -reducing benefits in kind for children and a better integration of employable social welfare educators: inside to the AMS including the expansion of advice and support. Instead, after the plans of Blau-Schwarz, those affected continue to be driven into poverty and lack of prospects: “In any case, social welfare does not become a ‘trampoline’ into working life and financial independence,” says Koza.

Obviously, the eternally equal and old ideas of the ÖVP “labor market reform” prevented by the Greens should also be reissued: degressive unemployment benefit, the deletion of the supplementary surcharges, the merger of emergency and social assistance and the abolition of the additional relief options. “As a special malice, the deportation of third -country nationals – obviously required by the FPÖ – is added, which are unemployed for more than six months. Who will request his rights in the workplace if he is threatened with deportation when loss of jobs? This puts the labor rights under pressure. A bär service to the employee: inside, ”suspects Koza.

Koza meint abschließend: „Also auch im Bereich der Sozial- und Arbeitsmarktpolitik ist die Övp aufgefordert, in sich zu gehen und ,umzukehren’, anstatt ihr Heil in einer Partnerschaft mit einer rechtsextremen Partei zu suchen, die für die Bekämpfung von Armut und Arbeitslosigkeit keinerlei has suitable concepts. It is not yet too late for a Christian-social U-turn to the negotiating table without right-wing extremists. ”