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Work rethought Do you also sometimes worry that your workplace makes you unhappy? And do you also wish for a free and safe working world for humans and nature? How could consumers, entrepreneurs and workers alike be protected and promoted? This book tells us: ... how four economic forms in one country can stabilise and complement each other as a circular system. ... how a Company Auditing Agency can ensure that all companies abide by its rules and make it easier for employees to contribute their ideas. ... which agriculture can promote environmental protection, but at the same time cost less and produce more food. After 20 years of work on this book series, Andreas Seidl thus ventures a step towards founding a party. In doing so, he entertains his readers both intellectually and visionarily. If this work can give you hope, inspire you or move you to action, it has fulfilled its purpose. Available in German and English
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Volume 1: Summary
Volume 2: Derivation
Volume 3: Constitution
Volume 4: State Organisation
Volume 5: Digital
Volume 6: Media
Volume 7: Labour
Volume 8: Planned Economy
Volume 9: Social Market Economy
Volume 10: Barter Economy
Volume 11: Free Market Economy
Volume 12: Finance
Volume 13: Innovation
Volume 14: Education
Volume 15: Health
Volume 16: Infrastructure
Volume 17: Security
Volume 18: Justice
Volume 19: Foreign Affairs
Volume 20: Integration
Volume 21: Family
Acknowledgements
My thanks go to my family and friends who have made me who I am today. Special thanks to all those who supported me in writing this book. I would like to thank all my classmates, teachers, fellow students, lecturers, demonstrators, activists, colleagues, companies and countries with whom I have had the privilege of sharing the experiences from which all the ideas in this book have emerged. I would like to thank the staff of Books on Demand for their kind helpfulness. I thank the citizens of Seligenstadt for the harmony and solidarity in which I was able to write.
Foreword
This policy concept contains a variety of proposals for possible political reforms. It can be peacefully and democratically adapted to any current political system of any state in the world, but also to political systems in families, clubs, associations or companies. Wherever humans make or submit to rules that manage living together, the following proposals can be helpful. Readers who find the proposals so helpful that they would like to implement them together with like-minded people can contact the author. The contact form on the last page can be used for this purpose.
Faults and defects
I ask for your understanding that this volume was not professionally proofread. I could only afford professional proofreading for the summary. Spelling errors and unfortunate phrasing may therefore occur. As soon as this volume has sold enough to pay for a professional proofreading, it will be done. After that, a new edition will be published.
English version
Please understand that this volume has been translated automatically. I could only afford a professional translation for the summary. Poor wording and spelling errors may therefore occur. In case of doubt, the German version shall prevail. As soon as this volume has sold enough to pay for a professional translation, it will be done. After that, a new edition will be published. It was more important to me that no one in the world should have an information advantage than individual translation errors in the complete work.
References
If something has been quoted directly, it is set in italics. If the headings contain footnotes, the sources for direct and indirect quotations apply in the chapter for which the heading stands. Otherwise, quotations or source references are directly at the word or at the end of the sentence or paragraph. This book contains parts of text based on the Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation of 18 April 1999 (as of 12 February 2017), abbreviated to BV1 and the Constitution of the Canton of Bern of 6 June 1993 (as of 11 March 2015), abbreviated to KV2 .
If the constitutional paragraph, or individual paragraphs thereof, are based in whole or in part on extracts from the BV or KV, this is indicated in a footnote. The references to the corresponding footnotes for constitutional paragraphs are usually found after the heading of the affected chapter and sometimes in the body of the text. Articles used in the Swiss constitutions are listed in the footnote with a number after the title of the constitutional paragraph. Example: §123 Sample title: BV Art.123, KV Art.123.
All internet sources are fully cited in the footnotes. They were last accessed on 30.09.2021. All literature sources are also listed in full in the footnotes.
All references to tasks undertaken by other ministries and described in more detail there are given in footnotes. Example: Model Ministry - 1.2.3 Model Chapter.
All footnotes are to be viewed in comparison to the respective source, so-called indirect quotations. Direct quotations are set in italics, but hardly ever occur. The source reference is intended to enable further investigation and to take copyright into account.
All keywords used, based on the names of the responsible units, departments and ministries of Germany, are listed at the end of this volume in the chapter on the conversion of ministries.
1 This is not an official publication. Only the publication by the Swiss Federal Chancellery is authoritative. https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1999/404/de On 14.12.2021
2 This is not an official publication. The Bernese Official Collection of Laws is authoritative. https://www.belex.sites.be.ch/frontend/versions/2420?locale=de#ART71 On 16.12.2021
Table of contents
1 Goals of the Ministry of Labour
2 Departments
2.1 Central Department
2.1.1 Staff
2.1.1.1 Service law
2.1.2 Organisation
2.1.2.1 Audit services
2.1.2.2 State procurement
2.2 Management Department
2.3 European Department.
2.4 Labour Department
2.5 Company Department
2.6 Audit Department.
3 Tasks of the Ministry of Labour
4 State enterprises
4.1 Foundation
4.2 Natural monopolies.
4.3 Construction and maintenance
4.4 Entrepreneurial action of the state
4.5 Publication obligation
4.6 Profits
4.7 Direct democratic work organisation.
4.8 Labour law for employees in state enterprises
4.8.1 Collective bargaining
4.8.2 Bonus-malus system
4.8.2.1 Ministry indicator
4.8.2.2 Performance indicator
4.8.2.3 Behaviour indicator.
4.8.2.3.1 Quality.
4.8.2.3.2 Top performance
4.8.2.3.3 Cooperation
4.8.2.3.4 Innovation
4.8.2.3.5 Integrity
4.8.2.4 Example calculation
5 Administrative Office
5.1 Digital personnel management
5.2 Conciliation board
5.3 Cost centre
5.4 Occupational Safety and Health Officer
6 Procurement Office
6.1 Logistics
6.2 Catalogue
7 People’s Innovation Company
8 Theory of hybrid economic systems
9 Principles of hybrid economies.
9.1 Freedom and security
9.2 Property
9.3 Laws and taxes for companies
9.4 Circuit of economic forms.
9.5 Structural support
9.6 Revitalisation and decommissioning of economic systems
9.7 Balancing between the economic forms.
9.8 Full employment.
9.9 Deadlines
9.10 Division of humans and space
9.11 Trade regulations
10 Free movement between economic forms
10.1 Companies in several economic forms
10.2 Switching between economic forms.
10.2.1 Changing persons.
10.2.2 Changing companies
10.2.3 Changing goods and services
10.2.3.1 Multimarket
10.2.3.2 Monomarket
10.2.4 Citizens’ Insurance
10.3 Foreign trade regulations
10.3.1 Restrictions
10.3.2 Tariffs
11 Labour policy
11.1 Reconciliation of work and private life
11.2 Vocational education
11.2.1 Necessary educational content
11.2.2 Practical work.
11.2.3 Practical research
12 Employment Office
12.1 Passive labour market promotion.
12.1.1 Life in the Planned Economy
12.1.2 Precaution
12.1.2.1 Old and survivors
12.1.2.2 Disabled
12.2 Active labour market promotion
12.2.1 Employment exchange
12.2.1.1 Recruiter
12.2.1.2 Personnel consultant
12.2.1.3 Support for business start-ups
12.2.2 Further education.
12.2.3 Education fairs
12.2.4 Intern Party
12.2.5 Job rotation
12.2.6 Transfer agreement for older employees
13 Labour Directory
13.1 Profiles for persons
13.2 Profiles for companies
13.2.1 Setting up a business
13.2.2 Digital marketing
13.2.3 Work programme.
13.3 Innovation marketing
13.3.1 Digital demand
13.3.2 Innovation Database
13.4 Homepage.
13.4.1 News service.
13.4.2 Security settings
13.4.3 Photos & Videos
13.4.4 Working groups
13.4.5 Colleagues
13.4.6 Superior
13.4.7 Memberships
13.4.8 Company
13.4.9 Career planner
13.4.10 Past visitors.
13.4.11 News
13.4.12 Daily news
13.4.13 Search
13.4.14 Administrator news
13.4.15 Example
13.5 Profile page
13.5.1 Page layout
13.5.2 Contents of persons
13.5.3 Company contents
13.5.4 Contents of innovations
13.5.5 Example
13.6 Algorithm for the search for workers and jobs
13.7 Employment exchange through the Labour Directory
13.7.1 Job search.
13.7.2 Automated application
13.7.3 Satisfaction at work
14 Enterprise policy
14.1 Holidays
14.2 Occupational safety and health
14.3 Environmental protection
14.4 Circular economy
14.5 Packaging
14.6 Certificates against negative externalities
14.6.1 Costs of the certificates.
14.6.2 Purpose of the revenues
14.6.3 Example calculation
14.7 Business development
14.7.1 Unconditional Basic Income
14.7.2 Digitalisation of work processes
14.7.2.1 Receipts.
14.7.2.2 Single data entry
14.8 Key industries
14.9 Insolvency
14.9.1 Transfer of ownership to the employees
14.9.2 Conversion into a state-owned enterprise
14.9.3 Sale to the Social Market Economy
14.9.4 Rental and auction of the individual parts
15 Antitrust Agency
15.1 Sanctions.
16 Employee protection
16.1 Employment contract
16.2 Organisation of working time
16.3 Partnering at the workplace
16.4 Partner work
16.5 Fun at work.
16.6 Labour Court
16.7 Industrial action
16.8 Democratic collective bargaining.
16.9 Manager bonuses.
16.10 Temporary work
16.11 Guest work
17 Consumer protection
17.1 Consumer organisations
17.2 Arbitration procedure
17.3 Affected citizens
17.4 Consumer research by the Company Auditing Agency
17.5 Cooperation with ministries
17.6 Consumer Directory
17.7 Consumer information standards
17.7.1 Price display
17.7.2 Food traffic light.
17.7.2.1 Self-control
17.7.2.2 Test criteria
17.7.3 Origin display
17.7.4 Seal of approval
17.7.5 Environmental traffic light
18 Finance economy
18.1 Money games
18.2 Joint-stock companies
18.2.1 General meeting.
18.2.1.1 Statutes of the general meeting
18.2.2 Board of directors.
18.2.3 Remuneration Committee
18.3 Financial Supervisory Authority
18.3.1 Banking Supervisory Authority.
18.3.2 Insurance Supervisory Authority
18.3.3 Exchange Commission
18.4 Rating agency
18.5 Stock market readiness
18.6 Stock exchange trading
18.6.1 Share prices
18.6.2 Change of stock exchange or economic form
19 Agriculture
19.1 Agriculture in the economic forms
19.2 Crop failure insurance
19.3 User communities
19.4 Company Auditing Agency audits in agriculture
19.5 Food quality
19.6 Land market
19.7 Mineral resources
19.8 Food industry
19.8.1 Animal products.
19.8.2 Plant products
19.8.3 Sustainability
19.8.4 Climate protection
19.8.5 Generation security despite climate impacts
19.8.6 Conventional and organic agriculture.
19.8.7 Near-natural agriculture: Permaculture.
19.8.7.1 Conversion of agricultural land
19.8.7.2 Conversion of urban parks and paths
19.8.7.3 Conversion of native gardens and allotment and small animal breeding associations.
19.8.8 Agriculture away from nature: Indoor agribusiness
19.8.8.1 Agri-factories.
19.8.8.2 Cultivation cabinets and indoor plant systems.
19.8.9 Distribution
19.8.10 Agricultural markets
19.8.11 Export of agricultural products.
19.9 Forest, hunting and forestry policy
19.10 Fisheries policy
19.11 Knowledge management
19.12 Food culture
19.13 Food Directory
19.14 Nutrition of the future
19.14.1 Short term
19.14.2 Medium term.
19.14.3 Long term
20 Company Auditing Agency
20.1 Audit of private companies
20.2 Audit of state agencies
20.3 Advisory service.
20.4 Accountability report
20.5 Employees
20.6 Audit programme
20.7 Departments of the Company Auditing Agency
20.7.1 Tax auditor.
20.7.1.1 Tax audit for companies
20.7.1.2 Tax audit in ministries
20.7.1.3 Procurement Review Board
20.7.2 Health auditor
20.7.2.1 Occupational health and safety audit.
20.7.2.2 Environmental protection audit
20.7.3 Economic auditor.
20.7.3.1 State audit
20.7.3.2 Private sector audit
20.7.3.3 Unfair working conditions
20.7.3.4 Auditing in the Free Market Economy
20.7.3.5 Auditing in the Social Market Economy
20.7.3.5.1 Non-profit audit.
20.7.3.5.2 Audit of employment contract deadlines
20.7.3.5.3 Audit of the automation.
20.7.3.5.4 Real estate audit
20.7.3.5.5 Manager in internship
20.7.3.5.6 Audit of company sports opportunities
20.7.3.5.7 Audit of insolvency insurance fraud
20.7.3.5.8 Audit before insurance benefits.
20.7.3.5.9 Avoiding waste
20.7.3.5.10 Additional audit for business promotion
20.7.3.5.11 Marketing success models.
20.7.3.5.11.1 Certification of success models
20.7.3.6 Auditing in the Planned Economy
20.7.3.6.1 First work area: basic supply
20.7.3.6.1.1 Audit of the need for workers in basic supply
20.7.3.6.1.2 Audit of the duty roster
20.7.3.6.1.3 Operational and business research
20.7.3.6.1.4 Audit of working hours
20.7.3.6.2 Second work area: luxury supply
20.7.3.6.2.1 Audit of the need for workers in luxury supply
20.7.3.6.2.2 Measurement of currency Working hours
20.7.3.6.2.3 Audit of Innovation Enterprises.
20.7.3.6.2.4 Sharing success models
20.7.3.6.2.5 Audit of profit sharing.
20.7.3.6.2.6 Audit of unfair working conditions
20.7.3.6.2.7 Payments from the Innovation Fund
20.7.3.7 Auditing in the Barter Economy
20.7.3.7.1 Determining the demand
20.7.3.7.2 Audit of the environmental impact.
20.7.3.7.3 Audit of imports and exports
20.7.4 Technical auditor
20.7.4.1 Qualification of the auditors
20.7.4.2 Seal of approval
20.7.4.2.1 Labelling for consumer protection
20.7.4.3 Acceptance of test procedures from manufacturers
20.7.4.4 Cooperation with state enterprises.
20.7.4.5 Equipment inspection
20.7.4.6 Product testing
20.7.4.7 Private examinations
20.7.5 Innovation auditor
20.7.5.1 Innovation audit
20.7.5.2 Notary’s office
20.7.5.3 Innovation programme
20.7.5.4 Innovation promotion.
20.7.5.4.1 Approval of funds from the Innovation Fund
20.7.5.4.2 Measuring the profit share through innovations
20.7.5.5 Promotion of research and development
20.7.5.5.1 Approval of funds from the Research Cost Fund
20.7.5.6 Approval of the relaxations of antitrust law
20.7.5.7 Request to become a People’s Innovation Company
20.7.6 Legality auditor
20.7.6.1 Company Auditing Agency work audit
20.7.6.2 Audit of constitutional law
20.7.6.3 Audit of administrative procedural law
20.7.6.4 Compliance with commercial law
20.7.6.5 Tax Investigation Department
20.7.6.6 Sabotage protection.
20.7.6.7 Data protection
20.7.6.8 Compliance with labour law
20.7.6.9 Compliance with antitrust law
20.7.6.10 Enforcement of innovation law
20.7.6.11 Enforcement of insolvency law
20.7.6.12 Implementation of the expropriation.
20.7.7 Business consultant
20.7.7.1 Management consultancy assignment
20.7.7.2 Corporate governance
20.7.7.3 Company committee.
20.7.7.4 Advisory programme.
20.7.7.5 Purchasing department
20.7.7.6 Consulting services
20.7.7.6.1 Carrying out the rectification of defects
20.7.7.6.2 Support for setting up a business
20.7.7.6.3 Market and operational analysis
20.7.7.6.4 Profit maximisation
20.7.7.6.5 Innovation consulting
20.7.7.6.5.1 Introduction of success models
20.7.7.6.5.2 Innovation launch
20.7.7.6.6 Insolvency proceedings.
20.8 Audit.
20.8.1 Audit range
20.8.2 Audit intervals
20.8.3 Audit costs
20.8.3.1 Audit costs in the Free Market Economy.
20.8.3.2 Audit costs in the Social Market Economy
20.8.3.3 Audit costs in the Barter Economy
20.8.4 Audit sheet
20.8.5 Questionnaire.
20.8.6 List of deficiencies
20.8.6.1 Freedom from contradiction
20.8.7 Verifications
20.8.8 Audit report
20.8.9 Certification.
20.9 Success Model Directory
20.10 Institute for Evaluation
21 Pension.
21.1 Pension models of the ministries
21.2 Retirement age
22 Switching to the new system.
22.1 Introduction of the economic forms
22.2 Introduction of the Employment Office
22.3 Conversion of the pension system
22.4 Introduction of the Company Auditing Agency
22.5 Changeover of agriculture
22.6 Conversion of the old ministries
22.6.1 Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
22.6.2 Federal Ministry of the Interior, for Building and the Homeland.
22.6.3 Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
22.6.4 Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection
22.6.5 Bavarian State Ministry of Justice
22.6.6 Federal Ministry of Finance
22.6.7 Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture.
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1 Goals of the Ministry of Labour
The objectives of the Ministry of Labour are to connect the four economic forms, to monitor the state and companies for economic efficiency and compliance with the law, and to enact laws in the field of labour law.
The goal of connecting the economic forms is achieved by ensuring freedom of movement between the economic forms through uniform access rules and regulations for companies. This will make it possible to create full employment in the country and allow the standard of living in the national economy to grow steadily in the long term.
The state and companies are regularly audited by the Company Auditing Agency and its auditors for taxation, health, economics, technology, innovation and legality. The audit results are published for citizens and consumers. They prove whether action is being taken economically, in line with costs and in accordance with the applicable laws and the constitution.
The labour laws include all the requirements of the Ministry of Labour. Their purpose is to enable citizens to exercise their control over all state activities. On the one hand, state labour law covers all conditions to which employees in the state service are entitled and obliged. On the other hand, the economic labour law covers all entrepreneurial activities, enabling citizens as independent entrepreneurs, employers and employees to see which minimum legal requirements apply to all economic forms and in which economic form more or less freedom or security is possible. All these laws make it possible for the Company Auditing Agency to audit and evaluate the work done in the country so that citizens and consumers can obtain binding results on which to base their voting behaviour.
The goal of cooperation between the ministries of labour, economy and finance is to achieve an economy that functions like a natural ecosystem that stabilises itself independently. Damage in one economic form leads to flowering in another economic form. The decisive factor here is that each blossom produces nutrients for the humans, which they can use again in other economic forms. This creates a circular economy of capital and labour, which means constant growth, like the constant build-up of biomass by the global natural ecosystem.
2 Departments
The departments are divided into sub-departments and enumerations are usually considered as their individual units. Many tasks of some departments are completely taken over by other ministries as a service.
2.1 Central Department
Part of the Central Department is the Reception Office with the Courier and Mail Room, which directs all concerns, broadcasts and visitors to the appropriate place in the ministry.
2.1.1 Staff
The Human Resources Department is responsible for staff development and planning. For this purpose, it takes care of the recruitment of junior staff, intern and trainee programmes as well as the selection procedures for employees and special selection procedures for applicants with disabilities. For politicians and employees, the department prepares a job plan. In all its tasks, it works in voting with the personnel board.3
All other personnel matters are transferred to the relevant ministries. The Ministry of Education is responsible for the training and further education of employees for the state service.4 The Ministry of Infrastructure provides housing assistance for all state employees.5 The Ministry of Finance’s Pay Office takes care of staff salaries, expenses, travel and relocation costs.6
The Ministry of Education provides childcare for all employees in the state service.7
The Ministry of Health is responsible for the occupational health service.8 It provides occupational health management, deals with the treatment, education and prevention of occupational accidents, controls and provides occupational health and safety through the health auditors of the Company Auditing Agency.
2.1.1.1 Service law
The Ministry of Labour handles the service law for employees in the state service. This includes labour and collective bargaining law, remuneration, personnel administration of all careers and employees, flexitime, holiday and sick leave, working time with or without flexitime in part-time or full-time at the place of employment or in home work. It regulates working conditions in the law for state enterprises, which includes ministries, agencies and state companies. The Ministry of Labour operates the Administrative Office for Personnel and Inventory for the implementation of the Service Law. The Ministry of Labour uses the Labour Directory9 for democratic control and complaint management for citizens against state enterprises.
2.1.2 Organisation
The ministries of media, security, justice, finance, labour, state organisation provide audit services for quality management in the ministry, evaluation of work performance, revenues and expenditures, as well as prevention of corruption, protection against sabotage and, if necessary, disciplinary matters.10
The language service for translating talks or texts is provided by the Ministry of Education.11 The Ministry of Finance organises the annual budget vote and ensures proper accounting in each ministry.12 It regulates budget procedures, budget law, staff budgets, departmental budgets, costs and cash management, and assists ministries in budget planning for the budget vote. The Ministry of Digital Affairs supports the supply of Information Technology.13 In voting with the Procurement Office of the Ministry of Labour, it takes care of the procurement, provision, maintenance and service of technical devices and software. Much of this is produced in-house to ensure data protection in information and communication technology. Information technology and digitalisation officers audit and advise the ministries. Digital appointment calendar and documentation services are provided as well as a digital policy archive including a library.
2.1.2.1 Audit services
The auditors of the Company Auditing Agency for Business, Innovation, Technology and Health ensure appropriate quality management in companies and state enterprises as well as ongoing evaluation of key economic figures, continuous improvement of products and operating procedures, safety of technical equipment and products and compliance with laws on occupational safety and environmental protection. To prevent corruption, the tax auditors check the flow of funds. For sabotage protection, the innovation auditors examine product piracy. For sabotage protection, the legality auditors investigate individual suspected employees to see if they are preparing criminal offences in the course of their work. The legality auditors ensure the investigation and enforcement of disciplinary matters.
3 Ministry of State Organisation - 2.1.1.1 Personnel board
4 Ministry of Education - 2.1.1.1 Education and training for the state service
5 Ministry of Infrastructure - 2.1.1.1 Housing assistance for state service employees
6 Ministry of Finance - 2.1.1.1 Staff remuneration
7 Ministry of Education - 2.1.1.2 Childcare for state service employees
8 Ministry of Health - 2.1.1.1 Occupational Health Service
9 Ministry of Digital - 12 Directories
10 Ministries of Media, Security, Justice, Finance, State Organisation - 2.1.2.1 Audit services
11 Ministry of Education - 2.1.3 Language Service
12 Ministry of Finance - 8 state revenues, 9 state expenditure
13 Ministry of Digital Affairs - 2.1.2.1.1 Supply of Information Technology
2.1.2.2 State procurement
State procurement is handled by the Procurement Office of the Ministry of Labour. All ministries turn to the Procurement Office for the award of state contracts and place their orders there. The Ministry of Labour regulates procurement law by issuing requirements to the Procurement Office.
2.2 Management Department
The Management Department is the minister’s department. With his office team, he provides policy planning and analysis for his ministry and coordinates the relationship between the nation and the municipality through exchanges with his deputies in the municipalities. He initiates cooperation with other ministries or citizens in committees and is supported by the Ministry of State Organisation.
The Ministry of Media Affairs, through its media service, provides press and public relations for the ministry, moderates civil dialogue, trains or provides a spokesperson for the minister, writes speeches and texts on request, and ensures the implementation of conferences and events.14
The Ministry of Digital Affairs is responsible for digital management and thus provides departmental management. It automatically produces business statistics, staff surveys and the current state of research through statistics. It automatically forwards proposals to the affected or empowered state employees. In document management, it ensures digitalisation and that ministries share forms with each other.15
2.3 European Department
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs ensures the constant transmission of the latest information on current European policy affecting the respective ministry, applicable European Union law and all European Union funding programmes starting or in progress.16 The European Department, in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, oversees the making of law and implementation of European labour policy in the European Union internal market.
The European Department decides for the areas of employment and social policy17 , agriculture18 , fisheries , consumer protection1920 , consumer - general provisions21 , competition22 and companies23 whether to adopt, adapt or reject existing European Union law.24
2.4 Labour Department
The Labour Department, in cooperation with all other ministries, ensures the existence of state enterprises and information on applicable labour laws in state enterprises. It ensures and supervises the operation of the administration and procurement offices.
In cooperation with the Ministry of Education, the Labour Department ensures the implementation of the requirements in vocational education and training. In cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it ensures the domestic implementation of European and international labour policy. After consultation with the Minister of Labour, further draft legislation on European and international labour policy is prepared.
The Labour Department operates the Labour Directory in cooperation with the Ministry of Digital Affairs and oversees its operation. It receives suggestions and problems that citizens and state workers have in handling the Labour Directory. If the Ministry of Labour is able to find a solution, the Labour Department will do so. It forwards technical problems and suggestions to the digital service.25
The Labour Department ensures the operation of the Employment Office and coordinates its cooperation with the ministries for the economy. It ensures the proper calculation of compensation payments between economic forms.
The Labour Department oversees the retirement models of the ministries of economy and, in consultation with the Minister of Economy, ensures that retirement age legislation is drafted.
2.5 Company Department
The Company Department, in cooperation with the ministries of economy, ensures compliance with the principles of hybrid economies and resolves conflicts over responsibilities and distributions between the ministries of economy. It ensures the realisation of free movement between economic forms through the operation of Citizens’ Insurance.
The Company Department oversees the implementation of enterprise policy requirements by the ministries of economy and informs them of innovations. It involves all ministries of economy and the Minister of Labour in drafting legislation. It oversees compliance with the requirements for the protection of employees and consumers through appropriate measures in the ministries of economy. In cooperation with the ministries of economics and finance, it enforces the requirements for the finance economy. In cooperation with the Ministries of Economic Affairs and Health, it enforces the requirements for agriculture. The Company Department oversees the Food Directory and operates it in cooperation with the Ministry of Digital Affairs.
14 Ministry of Media Affairs - 2.2.1.1 Media Service
15 Ministry of Digital Affairs - 2.1.2.1 Digital Service
16 Ministry of Foreign Affairs - 2.4 European Department
17https://eur-lex.europa.eu/summary/chapter/employment_and_social_policy.html?root_default=SUM_1_CODED=17
18https://eur-lex.europa.eu/summary/chapter/agriculture.html?root_default=SUM_1_CODED=03
19https://eur-lex.europa.eu/summary/chapter/0206.html
20https://eur-lex.europa.eu/summary/chapter/0904.html
21https://eur-lex.europa.eu/summary/chapter/0901.html
22https://eur-lex.europa.eu/summary/chapter/competition.html?root_default=SUM_1_CODED=08
23https://eur-lex.europa.eu/summary/chapter/enterprise.html?root_default=SUM_1_CODED=19
24 Ministry of Foreign Affairs - 6.4 Conversion of political contents to the policy of dynamic media democracy
25 Ministry of Digital Affairs - 2.1.2.1 Digital Service
2.6 Audit Department
The Audit Department ensures the operation of the Company Auditing Agency in cooperation with the Ministries of Finance, Economy, Health, Innovation, Security, Justice and Education. It oversees the operation of the audit services of the Ministry of Labour, namely the Company Auditing Agency, the Antitrust Agency and the Financial Supervisory Authority. The Audit Department oversees and operates the Consumer Directory and the Success Model Directory in cooperation with the Ministry of Digital Affairs. In cooperation with the Ministry of Education, the Audit Department ensures the operation of the Institute for Evaluation.
3 Tasks of the Ministry of Labour
The Ministry of Labour’s task is to manage the state economy efficiently. The task is fulfilled by administering state enterprises according to uniform procedures, procuring funds centrally and paying personnel according to tariff and performance. The Ministry of Economy is responsible for labour legislation that affects all economic forms, regulates the switching of goods and persons between economic forms, ensures smooth cooperation between ministries of economy and leads to sustained full employment.
The Ministry of Labour’s task is to enable the coexistence of four economic forms and the free movement of citizens between them. The task is fulfilled by a circular economy that provides balance and support between the economic forms and enables full employment. Free movement is ensured by regulating the movement of humans and things. Citizens’ Insurance is used to bring insurance services and the switching tax is used to change assets. The end of free movement is regulated for foreigners, goods and services in foreign trade regulations. For domestic citizens, freedom of movement ends when they retire. The Ministry of Labour’s task is to provide a secure pension. This task is fulfilled by the pension models of the ministries of economy and a flexible retirement age.
The Ministry of Labour pursues a labour policy that provides sufficient opportunities for work. This task is fulfilled by promoting the labour market in such a way that persons can fulfil their career aspirations. This is ensured by agreements on vocational training with the Ministries of Education, Innovation and Economic Affairs and on European and international labour policy with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Employment Office is responsible for passive and active labour market promotion. The Labour Directory is primarily used to place the labour market under as much competition as possible. Companies are also given the opportunity to map the market for goods and services in the Labour Directory by offering their products there. In this way, the Labour Directory makes it possible for all suppliers in the country to face all demanders in the country.
The Ministry of Labour’s enterprise policy concerns all companies of all economic forms equally. In this way, the Ministry of Labour can fulfil the task of creating equal opportunities for all companies without harming humans and nature. The task is considered fulfilled when the environment, entrepreneurs, employees and consumers are sufficiently protected and dominant monopolies that lead to the redistribution of assets to individuals are broken up or excluded.
Special requirements are issued by the Ministry of Labour in voting with the Ministry of Finance for the finance economy. This regulates joint-stock companies, gambling and stock exchange trading and is supervised by the Financial Supervisory Authority. For agriculture, the Ministry of Labour, in voting with the Ministries of Economy and Health, issues specific requirements and measures for conversion to permaculture and agribusiness. This task is considered fulfilled as soon as the prices per kilogram for most foodstuffs are approximately the same and even healthy food accounts for a maximum of 10% of the cost of living.
The Ministry of Labour’s task is to regularly inspect all state enterprises and private companies for compliance with requirements and worker satisfaction in order to operate a stable, growing national economy. This task is fulfilled by the Company Auditing Agency with the auditors for taxation, health, economics, technology, innovation and legality, as well as the business consultants. The Company Auditing Agency’s task is to ensure that all companies can make profits in the long term if possible and still comply with all the laws of their economic form.
4 State enterprises26
State enterprises are workplaces of ministries, namely offices, agencies, companies and enterprises established by ministries. The Ministry of Labour is responsible for the overall human resources management of all state service employees, leaving only the recruitment of new staff and their performance evaluation partly within the remit of individual ministries.
The Ministry of Labour sets the labour law that governs careers, collective bargaining, working hours, place of employment, pay and expense allowances for all state employees.
All state enterprises established on behalf of the people provide services with which they may earn a maximum of 10% profit above cost recovery. State enterprises are established and administered by the ministries. The Ministry of Labour is responsible for ensuring business efficiency in all state enterprises and audits all state enterprises through the Social Market Economy and Innovation Auditors of the Company Auditing Agency.
Companies working on behalf of the state must be registered in either the Planned Economy or Social Market Economy. When it comes to orders such as the production of patents, weapons or computer parts for People’s Computers and voting computers, special secrecy and loyalty apply. These orders may only be awarded to Planned Enterprise .27
4.1 Foundation
Whether state enterprises are to be established, privatised or closed down is decided by affected citizens and politicians. As soon as municipal or national laws are enacted that include a service, it must be clarified whether the state should provide the service through a state enterprise or whether companies in the market economies should be founded or commissioned to provide the service. This excludes services provided by the ministries of security, justice and digital affairs.
4.2 Natural monopolies
Most natural monopolies are state enterprises, at least initially. Natural monopolies are characterised by having very high initial investments, but then vanishingly low costs for supporting another customer. Examples are the postal service, railways, sewage and energy industries. The initiative for this can come from politicians or People’s Innovation Company. Since natural monopolies cost a lot of money before they can generate a lot of money, any natural monopolies must be wanted by a majority of the population and be approved accordingly in the budget vote.
4.3 Construction and maintenance
State enterprises are built, equipped and maintained by the Construction Team of the Ministry of Infrastructure.28 Together with the future employees, the responsible politicians and affected citizens, the Construction Team’s architectural office plans the building project. At the end of the planning process, the construction project is presented virtually in a committee29 and publicly negotiated in a show on Government Television.30 Afterwards, changes are only possible if a newly convened committee is held.
Funds for construction and equipment come either from the state budget, if these costs were approved in the budget vote, or from corporate bonds on the People’s Stock Exchange31 . In this case, the 70% of the profits are used to pay back the bonds with interest. Once all the debts have been paid off, the 70% of the profits go into the state budget.
26 §199 State enterprises
27 Ministry of Planned Economy - 10.5 Planned Enterprise
28 Ministry of Infrastructure - 5.8 Construction Team
29 Ministry of State Organisation - 9.6 Committee
30 Ministry of Media Affairs - 5.7.1 On the spot, 7.2.3.5 Solution Finder
31 Ministry of Finance - 11.8 People‘s Stock Exchange
4.4 Entrepreneurial action of the state
All operations in the ministries and their state enterprises are made possible through the use of money and property by employees. The Ministry of Labour, through the Company Auditing Agency, monitors the operations and use of money, assets and staff. In doing so, ministries are obliged to use personnel and capital in such a way that there is no wasteful excess or persistent shortage, but rather consistent state budget surpluses of between 5 and 10 per cent and slow and steady growth in living standards through technical and moral progress.
4.5 Publication obligation
All state enterprises must disclose all their activities in the State Directory. They publish their digital administration, which makes all prices paid and services rendered visible. This does not include names of service recipients, which are subject to data protection. Employees and business partners are named for all costs they incur. This data serves as an accountability report for the budget vote.
4.6 Profits32
All state enterprises of all ministries are allowed to make a combined profit of up to 10%. If profits are higher, these amounts must be transferred to the state budget for the following year. A ministry can ask in the budget vote to be allowed to save the surplus amounts in order to implement reforms. In the absence of a savings plan, state enterprises must reduce their prices until a total of 10% is reached. The fees for a service may be increased by 10% in addition to the cost recovery price. 30% of the profits are distributed to the employees as bonuses. 70% of the profits are booked to the ministry’s account at the People’s Bank33 , to which a state enterprise belongs. In the budget vote, the citizens can then distribute this money among the ministries like all the other tax money. Exceptions are made for People’s Innovation Companies, which have no profit ceiling when exporting abroad and always try to make monopoly profits.
The aim is to use the profits to reward employees based on performance, to keep the ministry and its state enterprises modern and to be able to reduce taxes. In the first step, business tax will be used less and less to finance the state, but will be paid out to the citizens via the Unconditional Basic Income34 . Only when state financing is handled exclusively through value added tax can value added tax be reduced in the second step.
