Human Resources committee  Yes indeed, you put your finger on an important problem. The system is not that perfect yet. We still have a dropout rate of about 25%. Every fourth apprentice doesn't finish. That's pretty high. That has to do with what my colleague just mentioned, the fact that we have an unsat

Human Resources committee  We are not talking about a program as such. It's not a program that has a beginning and an end. Our system is part of our education system in Germany. It's part and parcel of the whole education system. In Germany it's based on federal law, and it's guaranteed.

Human Resources committee  Maybe I can add that the trainees and apprentices who leave the lower or higher secondary school and start an apprenticeship have to go to school. They have one or two years left before they are allowed to leave school. We have a legal basis for that. They have to continue voca

Human Resources committee  Maybe I can add that it is no longer the case that if you do not have a school-leaving exam that you will have to become an apprentice. The system is so well recognized now and so valued that even people who have the highest school leaving exam choose this vocational training to

Human Resources committee  If I understood your question correctly, you were also asking about the different levels. At the national level, in the main committee, the trade unions are represented, but they are also represented at the local level. The trade unions participate at all levels. That goes back t