Celle is looking for cleaning staff for refugee homes: luxury hotel standard?

Celle is looking for cleaning staff for refugee homes: luxury hotel standard?

High voltage in the residence city of Celle: A job ID provides vertebrae! The city is urgently looking for cleaning staff for asylum seekers accommodation, but the echo lets the alarm bells ring. Tax funds are intended to finance employees who take care of cleanliness, where another solution actually seems much simpler. "Why not set up the residents themselves as a cleaning column?" Ask critics with a pointed tongue.

The advertised activity includes cleaning functional areas as well as tea kitchens and corridors. According to TVöD, a gross wage of EUR 2,000 to 2,483 euros per month, plus extra bonus of 145 euros for particularly difficult working conditions is paid. Here you inevitably ask yourself: Which "difficulties" are to be expected in such a simple job?

Celle on the pulse of the debate

The heads already smoke the question: Why don't the asylum seekers not take the mop themselves into their own hands? Critics complain that cleaning the accommodation symbolizes a life in luxury that the taxpayer can pay - a luxury that even German average families often is denied. Some even suspect a creeping privatization: a state -financed collective of cleaning staff as an integrative measure? Are we dreaming of luxury hotels in emergency accommodation?

The background is curious: Asylum seekers are not allowed to work officially in Germany. But is cleaning your own dwelling really "work" in the classic sense? It remains questionable whether this new "service" is compatible with integration.

A critical look behind the scenes

The discussion revolves around the symbolic effects of these measures. Critics ask: Where is the personal responsibility of the people who are looking for protection and security with us? The city ensures that the cleaner itself fits more into the image of a concierge in a five-star resort. Does that really have to be? reitschuster.de in the report asked the basic questions about this.

The Instagram post of Ekaterina Quehl also luminates on the topic and shows that the debate has long since reached social media. People ask themselves: Where is the border between help for self -help and patronizing? Do we create a precedent here?

It remains exciting how the discussion and measures of the city administration will develop. Can Celle explain to his citizens why tax money is invested for a debate that many may prefer to be solved on their own? And what will these solutions amount to? Time will show it!