Its important that workers know about their rights and share this knowledge between each other. Its good to read the informations below for yourself but its even better and more fun to do it together with someone else. So go grab a friend or co-workers and talk about workers rights!
Contractural duties of bosses
With your work contract there come alot of duties for bosses. Concerning work PAPERs the relevant duties of bosses are:
- providing in time all nessesary work papers
- payslips
- certificate of work
- papers for authorities
- Jobcenter / Arbeitsamt
- health insurance
- tax and revenue office
Below are steps that deal with missing PAPERs (payslip …) issues. If you are missing PAYMENT then here is how to claim it.
Common problems of workers regarding work papers
Some common cases where bosses fail to full their contractual duties:
- Dont know if you got paid right, because you dont have your payslips?
- Didnt get your sick pay or injury pay because the boss is not providing the nessesary information to you or the health insurance?
- Dont get social benefits because the boss is not giving you a certificate of work?
Whenever bosses dont provide the nessesary work papers they are violating the contract with their workers! When a workers contract is violated this workers is entitled to
- CLAIM your rights
- STOP your work (legally this is called “withholding” / “refusal”)
- #SueYourBoss!
Next steps to get your rights
Stop work and sueing sounds great, right?
Lets take the next steps to #SueYourBoss!
