1 Euro Job

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1 Euro Jobs in Germany are "working opportunities with additional cost compensation" in terms of § 16 Abs. 3 SGB II (Social Code, Book II). These working opportunities are features of the former social welfare (§ 19 BSHG: "charitable additional work") but were never (since introducion from SGB II) offered by the social welfare in this extent and are therefore rarely known in public sight.

The jobs are called 1 Euro Job because the "additional cost compensation" is 1 euro per hour.

People who have not worked for more than 12 month in the last 2 years can be forced to do 1 Euro Jobs. If you are on a 1 Euro Job you don't have the same employment rights and employment protection rights a normal worker has. In fact there is no protection and no rights at all.

1 Euro Jobbers are not unemployed in statistic meanings even though they are reported unemployed at the job center. This is to embelish the unemployment statistic in the meaning that people who are forced to do these 1 Euro Jobs are not added in official statistic, for example Germany has about 3 400 000 unemployed people but 5 200 000 that depend on welfare money.

Furthermore their salaries are added to the pension calculation like regular working jobs - the pension is calculated by the mean earnings what means the more people are working for 1 Euro the lower is the average pension; what furthermore means less money to spend for pensions.