Inge Hannemann

Inge Hannemann ( * 1968 in Hamburg ) is a German blogger, Hartz IV critic ( see also unemployment benefit II ) and since April 2013 exempted from work an employee of a job club in Hamburg 's Altona district.

Life

Hannemann completed training as a shipping clerk, a network administrator and labor mediator. She studied journalism, is a member of Verdi, was five years a member of the Young Socialists, and is an advocate of an unconditional basic income. She is married and has a grown daughter.

Controversy over sanctions practice

Hannemann since 2005 associate at the Job Center Hamburg- Altona. According to press reports Hannemann declined across months, to impose sanctions for rule violations. Hannemann denies this allegation and states to have sanctions only withdrawn in justified individual cases. Whether a sanction should be imposed at all, is at the discretion of the agent. In addition, Hannemann criticized in her blog a few ways of dealing with recipients of unemployment benefit II and related specifications. For these reasons, it was released in April 2013 by her employer with immediate effect from the service and was banned. In contrast, she complains before the Hamburg Labour Court on continued employment. One offered her transfer to a spot with no customer contact in the county Eimsbuettel refused Hannemann. The urgent application Hannemanns on continued employment was rejected by the Labour Court on 30 July 2013. The action for employment as labor mediator was dismissed on February 28, 2014 by the Labour Court of Hamburg by default judgment, since Hannemann did not apply because she wanted to submit a comprehensive many pages pleading until the appointment and was not sure whether the court reject the lecture as late would. She now has the opportunity to appeal against the judgment by default, which would mean that the item would be negotiated again before the labor court. About 16,000 people urged in an online petition, the "Job Center Hamburg " for withdrawal of labor law sanctions against Hannemann.

Hannemann was the first employee of a German job center, the critical public spoke up against the labor market policies of Agenda 2010. So they led in their Altona blog and in various speeches and interviews, as " promoting and demanding ", the stated objectives of the Hartz concept, long technocratic specifications are given way. Hartz IV does not seek to provide a perspective for the unemployed re-enter the labor market, but to push them through sanctions pressure from the power relation. The Federal Employment Agency stated that even during the current labor law proceedings in a press release that it will not give the alleged grievances and Hannemann endangering thousands of employees in the job centers. You 've picked just the wrong job. Hannemann disagreed and stated that she could prove her criticism with documents.

On November 20, 2013, filed by Inge Hannemann at October 23, 2013 petition " unemployment benefit II - abolition of sanctions and restrictions on benefits (SGB II and SGB XII )" was included on the petition page of the German Bundestag. To achieve the quorum 50,000 signatures were required. On December 16, 2013, this limit has been reached. On March 17, 2014, the petition of Inge Hannemann was treated in the Petitions Committee of the German Bundestag, at a public meeting.

Awards

• On September 14, 2013 Hannemann was awarded the taz Panter Award 2013 for moral courage.
• On March 7, 2014, it received the Clara -Zetkin- wife Price 2014, the Left Party.

Radio reports

• Rainer Schwochow: " malfunction " - An employee of the employment agency is fighting against Hartz IV SWR2 in tandem from October 7, 2013 10:05 clock
• DRadio Knowledge: The outrage of a clerk Konstantin Zurawski and Sebastian Sonntag in an interview with Inge Hannemann (audio file (MP3, 24.4 MB ) approx 51 mins)
• Thomas Cook: "justice" - the theme of our time with Inge Hannemann, whistleblower in the labor administration on YouTube in WDR5 speaking time from August 27, 2013