See my point of view, Germany have a job sharing scheme where workers who are getting close to a layoff have a scheme to prevent current workers from burnout. Ireland lacks any such scheme and people are forced to emigrate…
The company (shark) gets paid a subsidy from the government and the worker gets to work 10 hours per week with other 10 hour workers focused on that job role = 500 per month or a weeks worth of salary per month earned. This prevents waste of valuable workers who have spent years, time & finances to upskill themselves. The government win and the workers win.
I googled Job sharing AND Germany
and there are so many links to this and I can’t help to think our government should get this introduced. When a contract expired for me I lost some skills and decline or a downcycle in life causes stress and worry. What would be a way to push this up into a petition? [https://www.deutschland.de/en/topic/business/die-arbeit-ans-leben-anpassen](https://www.deutschland.de/en/topic/business/die-arbeit-ans-leben-anpassen)
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I think you have made one big incorrect assumption. Our unemployment is typically very low
Yeah I don’t think our government should be subsidising business who aren’t paying a fair wage any more than the already do.
Didn’t we have near full employment and shortages in certain industries pre covid?
We have very low unemployment
We don’t have an unemployment problem. We need more workers.
What if someone wants to stay in one industry rather than job hop. That entitles the worker to ask for more wages. People work part time anyway and this structure would help workers advance.
>Ireland lacks any such scheme and people are forced to emigrate…
Nobody I know who has emmigrated in the last 5 years went because they were out of work. All left a job to go.
>where workers who are getting close to a layoff have a scheme to prevent current workers from burnout
How does one know they are getting close to a layoff? Sure you would just start looking for a new job.
If anything with the labour shortage the government should be incentiving the employees to move to companies that are looking for staff rather that paying them to stay where they are.