Dhe Federal Employment Agency will soon have a need to find a job: in April the top post there will become vacant. Detlef Scheele, 64 years old, is leaving office. The Nuremberg authorities will hardly look at their own customer list, the task is highly political – next year more than ever before: Then the basic security needs to be converted, popularly known as “Hartz IV”. In the future, the traffic light parties have decided in their coalition agreement that it will become a “citizen’s money”. And now a person is under discussion for this task who has long been contested with the red-green labor market reform: Former SPD chairman Andrea Nahles, who threw in the towel in April 2019.
The news was made public on the weekend by “Bild am Sonntag”. Neither the SPD nor the Federal Ministry of Labor wanted to confirm the personnel on Sunday, and Nahles himself did not comment. In this way, the former Federal Minister of Labor could become von Scheele’s former boss as his successor. However, this personnel is not a sure-fire success: the administrative council of the federal agency elects the new manager, the federal cabinet has to approve it. The chairman of the board of directors is Anja Piel, member of the board of directors of the German Federation of Trade Unions. Nahles is currently President of the Federal Agency for Post and Telecommunications, a sub-authority of the Ministry of Finance, which the designated SPD candidate for Chancellor Olaf Scholz has headed up to now. Nahles has already been able to gain insights into the day-to-day work of the authorities, but not experience from the private sector, as critics criticize.
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