Up to 753 euros relief for employees – employers angry

Berlin The expansion of the midi job zone included in the relief package caused a storm of protests from employers. “In the presentation of the relief package, the federal government is concealing the fact that the relief for employees by 1.3 billion euros is not being financed by the state, but exclusively by the employers,” writes the Federal Guild Association of the Building Cleaning Trade in a letter to the members of the Bundestag.

Small and medium-sized companies are particularly affected, “which in many cases have gotten into trouble themselves,” says the letter, which is available to the Handelsblatt.

The federal government had already decided three months ago to raise the mini-job limit to 520 euros from October and to increase the midi-job threshold from 1300 to 1600 euros. With the relief package, she now wants to increase this threshold to 2,000 euros from January. In this transition zone, employees do not have to pay the full social security contributions, which is intended to provide an incentive to switch from mini-jobs to employment subject to social security contributions.