Staff Council from a departmental perspective - Central Germany

Structure of staff representation

• The concept of service as a connecting factor.
• Local staff council, district and main staff council, level representation.
• Organization of the Staff Council (Executive Board, chairpersons, committees).
• Cooperation with the trade union.

Meetings of the Staff Committee

• Number, duration and location of sessions.
• Participants.
• Permitted contents.
• Resolution of the Staff Committee.

General rights of staff representatives

• Leave of absence and leave of absence.
• Visiting employees at the workplace.
• Self-information by the Staff Council.
• Protection against dismissal and relocation.
• A fictitious retracing of professional development.
• Consultation of experts and other persons providing information.
• Material and personnel resources, costs of legal proceedings.

Training entitlement of the staff representatives

• Content and scope of the training entitlement.
• Decision of the Staff Council on secondment.
• Release decision of the department.
• General duties of the staff representatives
• The principle of trustful cooperation.
• Duty of peace.
• Duty of confidentiality.
• Deregistration and registration obligations.

Reaction of the department to breaches of duty

• Exclusion from the Staff Council and dissolution of the Staff Council.
• The "warning" under staff representation law.
• Appeal to the administrative court.

The decision-making process under staff representation law

• Responsibility, procedure, content.