Saarland Chamber of Labor

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The Chamber of Labor in Saarland (AK Saarland) is a public body to represent the interests of the Saarland workforce in business and politics. On June 30, 1951 , the Saarland Landtag passed the law on the Saarland Chamber of Labor, which defines all the tasks of the chamber. The Chamber of Labor is financed from membership fees that employers pay directly from gross wages .

Members of the Chamber of Labor

AK members are all employees employed in Saarland, including cross-border commuters who commute from France to Saarland, for example , to work here, as well as job seekers . All members, with the exception of those employed in vocational training and job seekers, pay 0.15 percent of their gross monthly wages as membership fees. The maximum amount from which the contribution is to be calculated is 100 percent of the applicable income threshold for pension insurance . In recent years, the average membership fee has usually been between 3 and 4 euros per month.

Services of the Chamber of Labor

The Saarland Chamber of Labor is a service provider. It offers information, advice and education to its members and does research for their interests. Their offer ranges from personal consultation to written information in the form of leaflets, brochures and newspapers that appear several times a year to a constantly growing online offer.

consultation

The main focus of the Chamber of Labor's services is advising its members. You can get free advice by phone, over the Internet or in a personal conversation. Since 2002, the Chamber of Labor's advice has been located in its own building, the House of Advice, at Triererstraße 22 in Saarbrücken. The Chamber of Labor's specialist advisors provide information on issues relating to labor and social law, income tax, and education and training.

The consumer advice center , with which the Chamber of Labor has concluded a cooperation agreement, is also located in the House of Advice . The Chamber of Labor also offers its members the opportunity to seek advice on consumer protection, environmental and financial issues. AK members only need to pay half of the consultation fees (maximum 15 euros) to the consumer advice center. The Chamber of Labor pays the other part of the consulting costs.

Together with the German Trade Union Federation Saar , the Chamber of Labor also set up the advice center for socially compatible technology design BEST eV, which is located in the main building of the Chamber of Labor in Fritz-Dobisch-Strasse in Saarbrücken. BEST supports the design of work and technology in companies through advice, training and specialist information. The focus is on advising the employee representatives in the company, particularly when it comes to the use of new technologies.

education

The Chamber of Labor has had its own training center in Kirkel since 1956, the Kirkel Education Center (BZK). Both employees and their representatives, works councils and staff councils are trained here. In the meantime, the BZK also serves as a conference and meeting location and as a cultural center. The ergonomics center of the work chamber is also located here.

As early as 2000, the Chamber of Labor started a nationwide education campaign with the initiative Arbeiter ans netz . It started with Internet introductory courses, which have since been offered nationwide in Saarland. Starting in 2005 , the employee-to-network offer was sustainably expanded to include courses on the electronic preparation of tax returns using the free ELSTER program. Saarland employees have been able to work with Arbeiter -ans-netz since autumn 2006 - for sure! you also learn what risks exist in the network and what you can do about them.

The Chamber of Labor can also support, promote and establish institutions in the interests of the Saarland workforce. In this role, she is involved in other educational institutions such as the Academy for Work and Social Affairs of the Saarland (AfAS), the Academy for Operations and Management (ABU), the Saarland Professional Promotion Agency (BFW) and the Saarland Administration and Business Academy (VWA) .

Analyzes and reports for politics and trade unions

The Chamber of Labor is legally obliged to submit its report to the Saarland government by 30 June at the latest . He comprehensively analyzes the economic, ecological, social and cultural situation of the workforce in Saarland and suggests measures to improve their situation. The Chamber of Labor works closely with commissioned research institutes as well as university and technical college institutions, whose scientific analyzes and findings play an important role in providing political advice and advising the trade unions .

The INFO Institute (Institute for Organizational Development and Corporate Policy ) emerged from the cooperation between the Chamber of Labor and the Saarland University of Applied Sciences (HTW) in the mid-1990s . The INFO-Institut advises on questions of profitability, strategy development, restructuring, organization and human resource management. The institute, which is jointly supported by the Chamber of Labor, the HTW and the state, has its research focus on regional labor market policy.

research

The focus is on application-oriented social science research in the interests of employees. The independent ISO institute (Institute for Social Research and Social Economy) emerged from the social research center of the Chamber of Labor in 1969 , and its research results and analyzes are included annually in the Chamber of Labor report to the Saarland government.

In addition to the ISO institute , the AK facilities INFO-Institut and BEST eV should be mentioned, which are repeatedly involved in research projects on behalf of the Chamber of Labor.

Together with the Saarland University and the DGB, the Chamber of Labor also maintains the cooperation center for work and science. One of the main tasks of the cooperation center is the development, support and supervision of work-oriented research projects.

Documentation center

The AK Documentation Center consists of a library and an archive. Both serve primarily to provide information within the chamber, but are also accessible to the public. The library's collection focuses on regional studies in the Saarland, economic and social history, workers' and trade union history and advisory literature (especially social and labor law). It is a reference library with over 46,000 items in the catalog. The archive stores documents from the Chamber of Labor, but also stocks from Saarland trade unions and the estates of trade unionists. The documentation center is registered under ISIL DE-2077.

Internet

On the Chamber of Labor's homepage you will find statements and press releases from the Chamber, up-to-date information on events and seminars as well as numerous online advisory services. The website www.in-4mation.de operated by the Chamber of Labor is aimed specifically at young people, their parents and teachers. The focus of the site is on providing information on the legal situation of trainees, schoolchildren and students as well as tips on school, study and work. Here you can also read or download the youth magazine of the Chamber of Labor in4mation, which appears twice a year . The further education database Saar has been on the Internet offer of the Chamber of Labor since 2005 . It provides information about the further training offers from over 200 training providers from all over Saarland and its direct neighbors. The website also gives access to the supraregional search engine of InfoWeb Further Education and to the large databases for e-learning and distance learning of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) and the Central Office for Distance Learning (ZFU).

Legal form and structure of the Chamber of Labor

The Saarland Chamber of Labor was founded in 1951 as a public corporation . All tasks are specified in the law on the Saarland Chamber of Labor.

The meeting of representatives

The representative assembly of the Saarland Chamber of Labor has 42 members who are elected by the Saarland state parliament for six years.

To simplify matters, the AK representative assembly is a kind of parliament that “determines the guidelines for the implementation of the statutory tasks of the Saarland Chamber of Labor and monitors the implementation of the resolutions.” The representatives assembly “decides on all questions that are of fundamental importance ...” the main tasks in the law on the Saarland Chamber of Labor.

The board of directors

The board of directors is elected from among the representatives' assembly. A two-thirds majority is required for the election of the chairman and his deputy, and a simple majority for the assessor.

The board of directors oversees the management of the general manager. It also decides on the affairs of the Chamber of Labor that are not assigned to the Assembly of Representatives or the General Manager by law or the statutes. The board prepares the deliberations of the representative assembly and monitors the execution of the resolutions. He orders and calls the manager.

Managing directors

The management of the Chamber of Labor consists of the general manager and the managing director. The general manager is elected by the representative assembly for eight years. The managing director is appointed and dismissed by the board of directors.

The general manager represents the Chamber of Labor together with the chairman of the board or, if he is unable to do so, with his deputy to the outside world. In doing so, they are bound by the resolutions of the representative assembly and the board of directors.

Departments, staff units and committees

The Chamber of Labor is divided into six departments. In addition, there are staff units that report directly to the management or the board of directors. Each department is assigned a committee that is elected by the representative assembly. The committees can submit motions to the board of directors or the meeting of representatives and report to them on the work within the departments.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ More information and online catalog at: http://www.arbeitskammer.de/online-dienste/online-recherche-im-ak-dokuzentrum.html