The Green Youth is calling for a statutory minimum wage for young people too. At its national congress in Leipzig, it voted in favor of a motion urging the abolition of Section 22 of the Minimum Wage Act. Among other things, this stipulates that the statutory minimum wage does not apply to under-18s who have not completed vocational training.
It also provides for exemptions from the minimum wage for compulsory internships as part of an apprenticeship or course of study and for other internships that run parallel to studies or training and last no longer than three months. In the view of the Green Youth, this discriminates against young people and interns are "misused as cheap labor".
The statutory minimum wage stipulates the minimum wage threshold that must not be undercut in Germany. Since the beginning of the year, this has been 12.41 euros gross per hour.
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