So to explain this with a concrete example. For me it looks like this: I work as a forklift driver for a food company for frozen food. Who doesn't like fish fingers? We work from Monday to Friday from 6 a.m. to 2:06 p.m. We have a lot of work. We have at least 30 days' holiday a year (older colleagues have more). If we work overtime, we can have it paid out or accumulate it for compensatory time off. Some colleagues have accumulated several hundred hours. We get a cold storage allowance on top of our normal hourly wage. That means we get extra money when we work in the cold store. But since we work with closed forklifts, that's not bad. It's rare to have to get out now and then for something. At minus 29 degrees. We also have a menu every week when we order lunch. (Costs 3,20€), because our location is about 4 kilometres away from our production plant, it is brought to us by the external truck driver of our supplier, who works together with us. He has the job of driving the pallets from us to production. (Due to a lack of space, our colleagues cannot store a lot of goods in their cold store). We deliver up to 350 tonnes of raw fish every day.
Well that is a lot of work 😅 German efficiency I guess 🫢 But I like that you have the option to get extra work and get a bigger pay check . But I am curious 🧐 do you pay extra tax for the extra money .
@@drisreacts No, it's actually a completely normal working day. Our current record is around 160,000 tonnes a year. I think that's about 4 billion fish fingers. We are 7 forklift drivers. two forklifts unload the goods that come from the port, three forklifts store the goods. Since we don't have shelves, the goods can be stacked. 1.2 tonne pallets stacked up to five high. 45 pallets fit in one compartment. And the last two forklift drivers are responsible for shipping. At 6 o'clock in the morning, the first truck is there to be loaded. It takes about 20 minutes to load a truck with 22 pallets. Of course, we also pay more taxes. Since the gross salary is also used to calculate the contributions in the case of additional work. There is an income tax table that is drawn up every year and it states how much income tax, church tax and solidarity surcharge you have to pay for a gross salary. The social security contributions (statutory health insurance, statutory pension insurance, statutory unemployment insurance, statutory nursing care insurance) are calculated as a percentage of the gross salary. The employer and the employee pay the following percentages: From January 2023, the social insurance contributions will be 14.6 per cent for health insurance, 18.6 per cent for pension insurance, 3.05 per cent for long-term care insurance and 2.6 per cent for unemployment insurance. In most cases, the social security contributions are sometimes the highest, as the gross wage may change, but the percentages do not.
Don‘t forget that long maternity leave, which is also paid. If you become pregnant while working in Germany, you are legally entitled to fourteen weeks' maternity leave (at least six weeks before and eight weeks after childbirth). You are entitled to eighteen weeks' leave in the event of a premature birth, multiple births, or if your child is found to have a disability. Your salary is made up of 13 Euros a day plus the difference payed by the employer (normal statutory health insurance, meaning public health insurance).
Hello, Idi ! Long time no weight! It was boring without you. If we talk about video, then in Germany workers are better protected by law. In the USA, you have to work too much. But still, we have the longest vacation - 45 days, because it's hard work, and holidays are paid double. This is the best we have, and the rest is not very good. Thank you!
@@drisreactsWe hope too. We know that there is a lot of work, no need to apologize. I hope we all do well, especially our mutual friend! Good luck to you! And our work is very fun, some adventures!
Dris I like your reactions. Geetings from Germany! ♥
Glad you like them! I hope to see your comments in my feature videos to 😁😊
@@drisreacts You can count on me! ♥
So to explain this with a concrete example. For me it looks like this: I work as a forklift driver for a food company for frozen food. Who doesn't like fish fingers?
We work from Monday to Friday from 6 a.m. to 2:06 p.m. We have a lot of work.
We have at least 30 days' holiday a year (older colleagues have more).
If we work overtime, we can have it paid out or accumulate it for compensatory time off. Some colleagues have accumulated several hundred hours.
We get a cold storage allowance on top of our normal hourly wage. That means we get extra money when we work in the cold store. But since we work with closed forklifts, that's not bad. It's rare to have to get out now and then for something. At minus 29 degrees.
We also have a menu every week when we order lunch. (Costs 3,20€), because our location is about 4 kilometres away from our production plant, it is brought to us by the external truck driver of our supplier, who works together with us. He has the job of driving the pallets from us to production. (Due to a lack of space, our colleagues cannot store a lot of goods in their cold store).
We deliver up to 350 tonnes of raw fish every day.
Well that is a lot of work 😅
German efficiency I guess 🫢
But I like that you have the option to get extra work and get a bigger pay check .
But I am curious 🧐 do you pay extra tax for the extra money .
@@drisreacts No, it's actually a completely normal working day. Our current record is around 160,000 tonnes a year. I think that's about 4 billion fish fingers. We are 7 forklift drivers. two forklifts unload the goods that come from the port, three forklifts store the goods. Since we don't have shelves, the goods can be stacked. 1.2 tonne pallets stacked up to five high. 45 pallets fit in one compartment.
And the last two forklift drivers are responsible for shipping. At 6 o'clock in the morning, the first truck is there to be loaded. It takes about 20 minutes to load a truck with 22 pallets.
Of course, we also pay more taxes. Since the gross salary is also used to calculate the contributions in the case of additional work.
There is an income tax table that is drawn up every year and it states how much income tax, church tax and solidarity surcharge you have to pay for a gross salary.
The social security contributions (statutory health insurance, statutory pension insurance, statutory unemployment insurance, statutory nursing care insurance) are calculated as a percentage of the gross salary. The employer and the employee pay the following percentages: From January 2023, the social insurance contributions will be 14.6 per cent for health insurance, 18.6 per cent for pension insurance, 3.05 per cent for long-term care insurance and 2.6 per cent for unemployment insurance.
In most cases, the social security contributions are sometimes the highest, as the gross wage may change, but the percentages do not.
Don‘t forget that long maternity leave, which is also paid. If you become pregnant while working in Germany, you are legally entitled to fourteen weeks' maternity leave (at least six weeks before and eight weeks after childbirth). You are entitled to eighteen weeks' leave in the event of a premature birth, multiple births, or if your child is found to have a disability. Your salary is made up of 13 Euros a day plus the difference payed by the employer (normal statutory health insurance, meaning public health insurance).
Hello, Idi ! Long time no weight! It was boring without you. If we talk about video, then in Germany workers are better protected by law. In the USA, you have to work too much. But still, we have the longest vacation - 45 days, because it's hard work, and holidays are paid double. This is the best we have, and the rest is not very good. Thank you!
I am sorry for my absence.
Well 45 days and double pay is not bad but I hope it gets better for all of us
@@drisreactsWe hope too. We know that there is a lot of work, no need to apologize. I hope we all do well, especially our mutual friend! Good luck to you! And our work is very fun, some adventures!