Munich (dpa / lby) – Almost three quarters of the trainees surveyed by the DGB in Bavaria are satisfied with their training. “This is still a pleasingly high value,” said the Bavarian DGB boss Bernhard Stiedl on Wednesday in Munich. However, there are clear differences depending on the profession: 95 percent of the prospective bricklayers and electronics technicians rated their training as good, but only 52 percent of the medical assistants and cooks.
“After all, in purely mathematical terms, there are almost two training places for one young person in the Free State,” said Stiedl. This means that the situation in Bavaria is better than in many other federal states. A slight upswing can be seen in the number of registered vocational training places. However, an apprenticeship in Munich is of little help to a young person in Hof. And there are still too many companies that do not train. A legal training guarantee is therefore overdue. The trade unionist demanded that the training costs should be borne by a fund that all companies pay into.
For its training report, the DGB Bavaria surveyed more than 1,300 trainees from September 2020 to spring 2022. 60 percent of the trainees rate the quality of the vocational school as “very good” or “good”. Career orientation at school, on the other hand, performed poorly: almost two-thirds of those surveyed said that school gave them little help in choosing a career. Only 31 percent of those surveyed used the careers advice service of the Employment Agency. The agencies must work more closely with the schools, demanded DGB youth secretary Lina Straßer.
Activities outside of training, unpaid overtime and regularly exceeding the maximum weekly working time for young trainees are unfortunately part of everyday life in many companies, the DGB criticized. Every third young trainee has to work overtime regularly, 9 percent even have to work more than 40 hours a week on average. “Such violations of the Youth Employment Protection Act are still the order of the day in some sectors,” said Stiedl, calling for more company controls and sanctions.
