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This training is held in German.
Today, modern remuneration design means much more than just optimizing salaries. In addition to traditional tax- and social security-free benefits, flexible working models, company car arrangements and home office options are becoming increasingly important. This training provides a practical insight into how innovative benefit concepts can be implemented in a legally compliant, transparent and financially attractive manner. You will learn how to check third-party benefits for tax and social security compliance. At the same time, you will learn about the role of works councils in the co-design of such remuneration systems and how they can make competent use of their co-determination rights. The aim is to provide payroll accountants, HR managers, managing directors and works council members with tools to sustainably strengthen employee motivation, employer attractiveness and long-term staff retention.
For works council members, this training fulfills the requirements of a necessary further training course in accordance with Section 37 (6) BetrVG.
Contents
Principles of remuneration design
- Wage tax and social security.
- Flat-rate taxation of wage types.
- Cash salary conversion: possibilities and limits.
- Minimum wage, collective bargaining requirements and their impact on benefits.
- Co-determination rights of the works council with regard to remuneration and benefits.
Strategic pay optimization
- Goals and advantages of attractive benefit concepts.
- Effects of optimized remuneration components on social security benefits.
- Disadvantage compensation for reduced gross income.
- Legally compliant implementation by means of call information.
- Role and participation rights of the works council in the introduction of new remuneration systems.
Monetary and non-monetary optimization building blocks
Mobility and travel
- Company car regulations (classic and electric vehicles).
- Company bicycles and e-bikes.
- Job tickets and mobility budget.
- Tax treatment of travel expenses and additional meal expenses.
- Co-determination of the works council in mobility offers and travel expense regulations.
Health, family and social affairs
- Company pension plans and pension models.
- Workplace health management and health promotion.
- Childcare and family allowances.
- Company catering, canteen, meal vouchers.
- Vacation allowances and employer loans.
- Involvement of the works council in social benefits and subsidies.
Benefits in kind and allowances
- Electronic devices (smartphones, tablets) for private use.
- Use of the €50 non-cash benefit exemption limit and discount allowance.
- Work clothing, work equipment and other benefits in kind.
- Information obligation and participation rights of the works council in the case of benefits in kind.
Non-taxable benefits
- Special gifts for special occasions.
- Parking space, parking lot and garage rental.
- Vehicle advertising on private vehicles.
Innovative, flexible and social benefits
- Flexible working hours and flexitime models.
- Home office and mobile working: Legal framework and practical implementation.
- Modern workplace design (quiet zones, fitness rooms, leisure facilities such as table football, billiards, etc.).
- Attractive additional benefits as instruments of the employer brand.
- Design options and co-determination of the works council in flexible working models.
Learning environment
In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.
Your benefit
After this training
- you will have a comprehensive overview of innovative and proven benefit concepts that you can implement directly in the company.
- you will have in-depth specialist knowledge of the correct implementation and mapping of benefits in Payroll Accounting accounting in terms of tax and social security law.
- you understand the effects of pay optimization on tax, social security and co-determination rights.
- you will be able to implement flexible working models, remuneration components and additional benefits with legal certainty and in compliance with works council rights.
- you know attractive benefits that you can use to motivate and retain employees in the long term.
- you can competently advise colleagues, managers and works council members and thus actively contribute to the design of co-determined remuneration and benefit models.
For works council members, this training fulfills the requirements of required further training in accordance with Section 37 (6) BetrVG.
Methods
You can expect a varied mix of practical presentations, concrete examples and illustrative case studies from payroll accounting practice. We will show you specifically how different benefit concepts affect you in terms of tax, social security law and co-determination. You will also learn how to independently check the tax and social security compliance of benefits from third-party providers and how to take into account the co-determination rights of the works council. Valuable work aids, checklists and the active exchange of experience between payroll accountants, HR managers and works council members round off the training .
Recommended for
- employees from HR departments and Payroll Accounting who want to expand their knowledge of modern benefits and remuneration concepts.
- Specialists and managers from Human Resources and Payroll Accounting who want to play an active role in shaping innovative remuneration systems.
- Members of works councils and staff representatives who want to deepen their knowledge of benefit concepts in order to represent employees competently and exercise their co-determination rights in the best possible way.
- employees from tax offices and data centers who want to account for benefits for clients in a legally compliant manner and advise them accordingly.
- Owners, managing directors and decision-makers who want to sustainably increase employee loyalty and employer attractiveness through attractive benefit systems.
Seminar evaluation for "More than gross: Attracting employees & strengthening employer brands with benefits"
4.6 from 5
with 51 ratings
training content:
4.5
Content comprehensibility:
4.6
Practical relevance:
4.6
Trainer expertise:
4.9
Participant orientation:
4.8
Method variety:
4.3
Start dates and details
24.02.2026
Live-Online
Booking number:
33401
€ 740,- plus VAT.
€ 880.60 incl. VAT.
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1 day
Limited number of participants
Tuesday, 24.02.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Booking number:
33401
€ 740,- plus VAT.
€ 880.60 incl. VAT.
Details
1 day
Limited number of participants
Booking number:
33401
€ 740,- plus VAT.
€ 880.60 incl. VAT.
Details
1 day
Limited number of participants
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