VdK coalition breaks in before the employer lobby

VdK: Coalition collapses before parts of the employer lobby: Waiver of legal entitlement in the family care period disadvantaged caring relatives

16/02/2011

"Care must be given the same priority as parenting, and if the coalition refrains from giving family carers a legal entitlement to family care, it will go in the wrong direction." Caregivers will be physically and mentally hardworking for years, relieving contributors and taxpayers If we do not significantly improve the compatibility of care and work, our care system is in danger of collapse, "said the President of the Social Association VdK Germany, Ulrike Mascher. Apparently, many in the coalition and employers' organizations have yet to recognize the explosive nature of this major socio-political challenge of our time.

"Without a legal entitlement, many workers will not be able to take advantage of family care leave." Experience has shown that voluntary solutions are largely unavailable, and it is regrettable that the coalition is not listening to the progressive companies and abandoning a timely family policy . " Mascher called on the Federal Government to design the family care period as a legal claim and to flank it with a wage replacement. Anything else would be a bad start to the year of care 2011. (Michael Pausder)