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The Federal Cabinet has today adopted the Bundestag Protection Law. The aim is to extend the subcontractors liability which has been working for years in the meat industry and construction to the parcel sector. The new regulation will ensure the correct payment of social security contributions in the future.The Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Hubertus HeilThe development in parts of the package industry has not been acceptable for some time. Working people are exploited often people from Central and Eastern Europe who speak very little German. We are putting a stop to this bad practice with the Parcel Merchandise Protection Act by getting the subcontracting liability for social security contributions to the parcel industry as well.A nationwide crackdown on customs in February 2019 revealed that every sixth verified employment relationship in the industry tended to be critical. Background of the development is the long-lasting growth of the online trade with which also the parcel branch also CEP branch courier express and parcel services has become more important.Meanwhile the parcel services have begun to hand over part of their orders to subcontractors for capacity reasons. Among other things it comes to black money social benefits and social security fraud at the expense of employees. At the same time the aim of the Parcel Merchandise Protection Act is to protect honest companies from unfair competition.The subcontractor liability also general contractor liability ensures Who accepts an order and hands it on to a subcontractor is responsible for the payable social security contributions. If the subcontractor does not submit any contributions and if they are not to be collected from him after inspections the main contractor will be present.
