Take account of the “phases of life.” The “Custom-made working and free time” agreement presented by Trumpf management on may 18th, signed with representatives from the WC and the IG-Metall, is definitely the best there is in terms of working time management in Germany. The system presented* is based on an idea that has been gaining ground for years: make working time more flexible to better coordinate the rhythms of the company and its employees. Of course, the aim is to create a less restrictive working framework, to increase the appeal of jobs and of the company, to limit stress, and to increase employees’ motivation and efficiency. “At national level, the average working contract in the industry is the 35-hour-week with about 6 weeks of paid annual leave combined with days off for deaths, diseases, births, weddings… This is basically what collective agreements include in the “events of life.” To this are added measures negotiated at company level introducing flexible working hours. This helps deal with daily arrivals and departures in a more flexible manner while answering employees’ need, sometimes, to go home earlier. All this is tough to combine with the current needs of a complex and heterogeneous world explained Trumpf personnel director Gerhard Rübling when presenting the new working time scheme. “It’s after regular surveys among our employees that we saw that there was a real need for flexible working time. The new system was negotiated with the WC and the IG-Metall within the framework of a clause derogating from sectoral collective agreements” Trumpf spokesman Claus Zemcke told Planet Labor. “The current agreement affects the 2,500 employees of our plants in the Stuttgart area but we’re bargaining with the IG-Metall to extend the agreement to our 4,000 German employees.” Present in almost 57 countries, Trumpf employs nearly 8,000 people, 1,100 in R&D alone. The 4,000 German employees are covered by an employment guarantee until 2016 and by a guarantee of 25 annual hours of continuous learning.
explained Trumpf personnel director Gerhard Rübling when presenting the new working time scheme. “It’s after regular surveys among our employees that we saw that there was a real need for flexible working time. The new system was negotiated with the WC and the IG-Metall within the framework of a clause derogating from sectoral collective agreements” Trumpf spokesman Claus Zemcke told Planet Labor. “The current agreement affects the 2,500 employees of our plants in the Stuttgart area but we’r
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