Germany: programme to prepare SMEs to the new demographic deal

The federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS) launched, assisted by the European Social Fund, an advice offer to help SMEs in the ten Länder of former western Germany to adapt their personnel management to the demographic challenge. By September 2008, more than 2.100 companies will have been visited by one of the 300 "demographic advisors" trained to enforce this programme, entitled "Rebequa". (Ref. 080097)
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Help SMEs plan personnel flow according to the age or the skills rate of the regional workforce, propose qualification offer adapted to their aged workers or even prepare intergenerational know-how transfer in time, are some of the main goals of the Rebequa programme recently launched by the BMAS.

At first, the programme took on to train 300 regional “demographic advisors” which will advise more than 2.100 companies in western Germany. “These advisors are already working experts, either self-emp

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