Social security in Germany

The Arbeiterwohlfarht (AWO), or Workers Welfare Institution, a service organization dedicated to promoting worker welfare in Germany, will hold job interviews with Turkish care workers in Istanbul starting this month to care for the country's aging population.

The number of senior corporate officials continued to decline in the third quarter of the year, while part-time work and employment at the minimum salary level of 586 euros per month are virtually the only options out there for job seekers. The reason for this state of affairs lies in the prohibitively high taxes and social security contributions that employers are expected to pay.

As the government attempts to revise a unified pay structure for civil servants in a bid to iron out differences without increasing spending, a study of the new scheme reveals that discrepancies still abound, with employees in certain parts of the public sector receiving as much as 2,000 euros more per month than colleagues with the same qualifications.