Union IF Metall welcomed the government’s decision to investigate the concept of a collectively agreed unemployment insurance fund. The idea is that the money paid into a collectively agreed unemployment insurance would go to the raising of benefit levels, instead of the fund being a “cash cow” for the state.
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