So a good advice would be to clarify any doubts if you have any as soon as they arise, either with a superior, colleague or with the client. The average working week is only 38 hours which is the shortest in Europe!
Since , there have been only a few years in which more people emigrated from than immigrated to Germany. Work on Sundays and public holidays is generally prohibited. There are exceptions available for workers in the service industry. However, work on Sundays has to be compensated for by corresponding time off within the next two weeks or eight weeks in the case of work on public holidays.
If you also have a regular job, you can have one single mini job besides, if the regular amount you earn with it per month does not exceed Euros. The minimum wage has been set at 8. Usually, the wages are higher in big cities but the cost of living in those cities is also on the higher side. This is average pay at which a student need not pay any taxes.
You can work up to 20 hours per week while studying. Today, 50 per cent of people worldwide live in urban areas, and it is expected that cities will grow rapidly all around the world.
These are now called 'informal settlements', where people live in overcrowded conditions with inadequate social support, often with no access to clean drinking water or organised sanitation and waste disposal systems. Large-scale movements of people into cities are nothing new. This is also pointed out in the encyclopaedia mentioned above. Ever since the 19th century, people have flooded into cities where industrialisation has taken place.
Germany has also experienced such periods of migration. After the Second World War, within just a few years, around 14 million people streamed westward from Germany's former eastern regions into the areas that would later form the Federal Republic of Germany. Many of the towns and cities they found there had been destroyed by the war. There was a lack of adequate living space even for the original inhabitants; then the millions arrived from the east.
At the time, German politicians did their utmost to integrate the immigrants. The state subsidised the construction of housing and new settlements, and municipal authorities planned and designed whole new districts.
For many people who had little enough to live on themselves, the close coexistence with the newcomers wasn't easy. Yet even so, the 'miracle' happened, and integration succeeded. That was nearly 70 years ago.
Today, there are different reasons why the people in emerging and developing countries are flooding into the cities.
Yet the same principle still holds: the key to their successful integration is planning. It requires political will to steer the unavoidable streams of people moving from rural areas not only to smaller cities but also to giant megacities, and to take steps to ensure they are appropriately housed. Wherever people are forced to live in slums or bidonvilles or favelas, that kind of political will is missing or in short supply. This is a problem local people must tackle for themselves, for example by voting different politicians into power, wherever possible.
At the same time, the orderly and planned development of new urban settlements often 'only' fails due to a lack of money or requisite know-how. In the large number of building programmes for social housing that were carried out in Europe and North America in the decades following World War II, there are many good examples of how to channel private capital into the construction of homes for poor and low-income tenants.
There is also a plentiful supply of knowledge about urban development, urban planning and municipal administration. It just needs to be tapped. Germany and the European Union are already giving financial and technical support to many countries for the development of their urban regions. In this respect, Germany's main focus is on smaller and medium-sized cities in Asia, although it also assists cities with several million inhabitants.
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