Basics of staff council work for staff council members

Basics of staff council work

• Principles of trusting cooperation between the department, staff council and trade unions.
• Explanation of specific and undefined definitions.
• Get an overview of the structure of the BPersVG and learn how to deal with commentary literature and case law.
• Get to know the electoral principles of staff representation at a glance.

Provision of the Staff Council

• Honorary office and entitlement to time off.
• Right to unhindered performance of duties as a staff council, protection against transfer, secondment and dismissal.
• Rights and obligations as a staff council, in particular the duty of confidentiality and the prohibition of recourse to external bodies.
• Breach of duty and its consequences.

Management and business requirements

Cooperation and meetings of the Staff Council

• Invitation and setting of the agenda.
• Adoption of resolutions and quorum as well as adoption of resolutions by electronic means.
• Get to know the minutes of meetings and their requirements.
• Summoning of members and proper representation of substitute members.
• Bias.
• Meeting via video and telephone conference.
• Consequences of formal errors in the invitation and passing of resolutions.
• Division of labor, the board's right to information and the use of representatives and committees.

Involvement of staff representatives

• The staff council's right to information.
• Involvement facts distinguish between co-determination, participation and consultation.
• Participation in terminations.
• Get to know co-determination in social, organizational and personnel matters as well as the co-determination procedure.
• Formation of deadlines.
• Initiative motions.
• Negotiation and agreement of service agreements.

Procedure in the event of non-agreement

Staff meeting