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News from the Sloth Farm – When Integration Succeeds – But Please Not Too QuicklyIt is one of the established cornerstones of labor market policy efforts to guide people without employment back into regular work. 
At least that is the idea behind counseling sessions, job placement proposals, and integration agreements. The primary labor market is considered the goal, not a disruption of the system. At least in theory. In a town in the Burgenland district, it is now becoming apparent that theory and lived administrative practice can occasionally take different paths — sometimes even in opposite directions. At the center of the story is a long-term unemployed citizen who, over the years, did not want to be satisfied with structuring his mornings solely with a coffee cup and a calendar page. Instead, he took on a volunteer position in an association and quickly became a reliable part of the team. Every day from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. he helped out dependably, pitched in, assisted with organization, and above all contributed something that has become scarce in many areas: reliability. For an association, that is an asset. For statistics, apparently not necessarily. Paid work could not initially be established within the framework of the association. As is often the case, goodwill exceeded financial possibilities. So it was eventually decided to develop the existing association activity into a business — with the aim of being able to offer at least marginal employment in the long term. That is exactly what happened. With the completion of the formal steps, an employment contract was now on the table: 167 euros per month, marginal, but nevertheless a real entry into regular employment. Not a big leap, but a beginning. At this point one might assume that the finish line of labor market policy had been reached. But administration is known to have intermediate stages. Because already at the beginning of the year the person concerned had additionally been assigned a one-euro job — with the understandable goal of bringing more structure into everyday life. The fact that everyday life had already been structured on weekdays for quite some time apparently played no decisive role. After all, administration does not always measure structure by clock times, but occasionally by forms. The new activity in a municipal institution brings in around 120 euros per month and thus follows exactly the model that has been known for years as labor market activation. When the employment contract was now presented, the responsible job center was informed. The request was phrased quite simply: the one-euro job could perhaps go to someone who so far has no side activity and is also waiting for such an opportunity. The answer was clear: waiving it was not foreseen. Both activities could be carried out in parallel. In other words: anyone who already works daily may continue working additionally on their activation. This opens up interesting perspectives. While elsewhere people discuss the shortage of skilled workers, here a model appears in which existing labor capacity apparently remains usable twice — regular work in the morning, and additionally within the framework of publicly funded employment. One could call it efficiency. Or, with a slight glance toward administrative satire: a visit to Absurdistan with German thoroughness. Anyone who now thinks the citizen can be happy about the additional 120 euros per month is not thinking in terms of labor market and social legislation. The citizen may keep the 120 euros, but the 167 euros are deducted from the benefits he still receives. Well, at least he now has double the structure. In the end, only one factual question remains: If the entry into employment succeeds — should not exactly this path have priority? Or put differently: when does a measure actually end if its original goal has already begun? Author: AI-Translation - Karla Kolumna | |
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