Integration counselling Services

We want to get you into work!

We will tell you what you need to do to make your career start a success.

• We will be happy to provide you with comprehensive advice.
• We offer you vacancies.
• We provide you with broad support from the first day of the application process.
• We have a personal contact person for you.

Take advantage of the extensive counselling services offered by our integration consultants.

• Flyer - What I need to know when I start work
• Flyer - Cooperation plan and conciliation procedure

There is also plenty of room for your own initiative.

• We support you within the scope of the legal possibilities in finding and taking up an apprenticeship or job.

To help you with this and make it easier for you to reorient yourself, we have a wide range of different tools that allow us to provide you with personalised support.

Legal basis: § 16 SGB II in conjunction with § 44 Para. 1 SGB III

Jobseekers seeking training, jobseekers threatened by unemployment and unemployed persons can be supported from the placement budget in initiating or taking up employment subject to compulsory insurance if this is necessary for their professional integration. In particular, they should be supported in achieving the integration goals set out in the integration agreement. The support includes the assumption of reasonable costs if the employer does not or is unlikely to provide similar services. Reimbursable costs include, among other things

• Application costs
• Travelling expenses to the job interview
• Costs for separate household management
• Costs for relocation
• Travelling expenses to take up a job or training position
• Costs for work equipment
• Costs for certificates (e.g. health certificate, notarisations, certificate of good conduct, etc.)
• Other costs

Please discuss in detail with your integration counsellor whether and to what extent costs can be covered by the placement budget.

Legal basis: Section 16 para. 1 sentence 2 no. 2 SGB II in conjunction with Section 45 para. 1 sentence 1 nos. 1-5, para. 2 sentence 2 SGB III

The measures for your activation and professional integration are divided into three parts; the different types of measures can be combined.
Firstly, there is the option of carrying out measures with an agency. Secondly
, it is possible to carry out some of these measures directly with an employer.
Thirdly, a private employment agency can be engaged to find you employment that is subject to social insurance contributions.

Funding may be provided for participation in vocational integration measures that

• the introduction to the training and labour market,
• the identification, reduction or elimination of mediation obstacles,
• placement in employment subject to compulsory insurance,
• the introduction to self-employment or
• the stabilisation of employment

support.

The existence of your specific requirements and the precise selection of a suitable measure are examined individually for each customer. The aim of all integration services is to integrate you into the labour market as quickly and permanently as possible.

Funding through:

• the assumption of the costs of a measure (such as training course costs and travelling expenses) and the continued payment of citizen's allowance.

Legal basis: § 16 Para. 1 SGB II in conjunction with §§ 77-87 SGB III

When further training is necessary:

• to reintegrate you into the labour market if you are unemployed or
• to avert the threat of unemployment or
• because the lack of a vocational qualification makes integration into the labour market more difficult or
• in the case of part-time employment, in order to take up full-time employment

can be subsidised if the personal requirements are met.

In a consultation with your integration counsellor, it will be checked whether and, if so, which further training or qualification is suitable for you to support you in taking up employment.

Promotion:

Further training can be subsidised by covering the costs (including course costs and travel expenses and, if applicable, childcare costs).

Forms:

• Attendance/absence certificate

Legal basis: § 16b SGB II

Support in the form of an entry allowance may be considered when taking up employment subject to social insurance contributions for at least 15 hours per week or full-time self-employment. In addition to the other legal
requirements, support for taking up employment with an entry allowance depends on the specific conditions of the individual case.

Promotion:

In principle, the maximum amount is 50 per cent of the standard requirement; in addition, supplementary amounts can be granted that take into account members of the benefit community and/or the previous duration of unemployment.

Legal basis: § 16d SGB II

Work opportunities are publicly subsidised employment measures in which additional, non-competitive work is carried out in the public interest.

They serve this purpose,

• to promote social integration
• increase the chance of integration in the medium term
• maintain or restore employability.

Work opportunities give you and your integration advisor insights into your aptitudes and interests, and thus provide pointers for strategies for taking up employment.
Work opportunities are always considered secondary to placement in work or training, qualification and other integration instruments.
For the additional expenses incurred when working in a work opportunity, an additional expense allowance of one euro per hour worked is paid.

Supporting job opportunities

• ensuring order, cleanliness and safety,
• work in social institutions,
• the work of the cultural and leisure sector and
• of the sports sector.

Further information can be found here.