Wage Dumping

Last Updated on Monday, 31 January 2011 11:49

No Benefit Curtailment on Refusal of Dumping Wage Job

The long-term unemployed do not have to accept every job. If a long-term jobless person refuses to accept a job for a dumping wage, ALG-II benefits may not be curtailed. That was the verdict of the Social Court Dortmund on the case of a Hartz-4 beneficiary that was to take up employment at an hourly wage of € 4, 50.

The Social Court Dortmund ruled that an hourly wage of € 4, 50, with a minimum standard wage of € 9, 82, is unacceptable. Such hourly rates were immoral wage extortion. A wage is considered immoral if it lies at least 30 per cent below the standard wage or the locally accepted wage. To force the unemployed into jobs such as these with the threat of sanctions would be to officially support wage dumping and to forcibly lower the wage structure, said the court in its verdict (- S 31 AS 317/07 -).

Source: DGB, 05.03.2009: www.mindestlohn.de

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