Wouldn't it seem reasonable that it's better to give people better access to more jobs (through education or improving the environment for new business creation) than strong-arming existing employers?
The former assumes that the pie can be grown. The latter assume we're fighting over a limited pie, which actually winds up shrinking it.
Education in Germany is mostly free except a (unfortunate) selection process after 4th grade (most states). So people have access to education, and Germany made some great steps forward towards easy business creation (new limited company types, standard contracts, lower costs, ...) in the last 10 years [1].
So what's next?
[1] That said the common idea is in school and on television since around the 70s: The coolest guy is the one with the worst grades - every celebrity boosts how bad they were at school. And living on welfare has become a verb ("harzen") and is the live goal (perspective?) of many young people.
Universities are not free anymore in most states of Germany. And the selection after 4th grade is very much determined by the area you live in because you have to send your kids to the public school where you live.
Tuition was common for a while, but it isn't anymore. Lower Saxony is the only state where you still have to pay it and they're abolishing next year [1].
There is no such thing as "free" so when discussing these sorts of issues it would be much more illuminating to describe the mechanism of funding, as it relates to one alternative to another.
The former assumes that the pie can be grown. The latter assume we're fighting over a limited pie, which actually winds up shrinking it.