Company collective agreement

The company collective agreement (BKV) has been concluded annually in the GDR since 1951 on the basis of the works plan between the works manager and the works union management (BGL) in all companies that have their own works union organizations.

The BKV should contribute to fulfilling the planned tasks and to outbid them in a targeted manner as well as improving the working and living conditions of the employees. The contract was supposed to ensure "in unity with the operational plans and competition decisions the direct participation of the working people in the management and planning of the enterprise and the development of their creative initiatives".

The BKV had to comply with the legal requirements. Definitions that violated this were legally ineffective. The BKV had to include specific, billable and time-bound obligations of the operations manager and the BGL as well as labor regulations in accordance with the Labor Code (AGB) and other legal provisions in the following areas:

Development and promotion of initiatives in "socialist competition" (i.e. prerequisites for the elaboration and implementation of the competition decisions taking into account the requirements of intensification , forms and methods of competition management such as the budget book , fair of the masters of tomorrow and performance comparisons, neo-movement , accountability of the manager and the BGL).

Implementation of the " socialist performance principle " for wages and premiums ( classification , use of the wage fund , use of the resources of the premium fund )

Improvement of the material working conditions of the employees and the content of the work ( working conditions , occupational safety , health protection )

Protection and development of health and social care of employees (uniform regulation labor and social issues related to rationalization measures, site inspection , rush hour , workers care , occupational health care , care of employees Operating recreational facilities , child care )

Promotion of the "all-round education of the working people" ( education and training , vocational training , adult education, qualification , "schools of socialist work")

"Development of intellectual, cultural and sporting life" ( cultural and educational plan , cultural and sports facilities, leisure and recreational sports, company festivals )

Women's advancement plan (participation in management and planning, training and further education, working conditions, health care)

Use of the resources of the cultural and social fund and the company's performance fund to develop the working and living conditions of employees (working and living conditions, cultural and social fund, performance fund)

The BKV contained all annually recurring obligations and stipulations, see above

Regulations for the participation of employees in the development of the plans and BKV ( five-year plan , annual economic plan , "socialist competition")

Principles for organizing and holding performance comparisons

Principles and regulations for working with the budget book

Regulations for the award and confirmation of the defense of the honorary title of collective of socialist work

The principles and procedures for use of the premium funds ( single payment order , year-end premium , premiums forms , shift work)

Regulations to improve working and living conditions (rationalization, social care )

Regulations on honoring and caring for employees (one-time support, veteran care , conscripts)

List of work-related additional vacation (vacation, vacation list )

List of aggravation Additionally ( operation list , difficulties)

The elaboration of the BKV was to be organized by the operations manager together with the BGL and linked to the plan discussion (§§ 28 ff. AGB; resolution of the Council of Ministers and the Federal Executive of the FDGB on the guideline for working with the BKV of 23 May 1985 in GBl . I, 1985 No. 14 p. 173).

After a "comprehensive discussion", the BKV had to be presented to the union members 'meeting or the shop stewards' meeting for consultation and decision-making. The operations manager and BGL should ensure regular information in the general meetings of the trade union groups and, in connection with reporting on the fulfillment of the plan and the competition results, give a "comprehensive account" of the implementation of the BKV at the trade union members' meeting or shop steward's meeting twice a year.

On request , the works manager and the senior staff had to report to the responsible company union management about the fulfillment of their obligations .

In the departments of large VEB , departmental collective agreements could be drawn up on the basis of the breakdown of the operational plans and the BKV. Collective agreements could also be set up in the state organs and institutions. If private companies initially existed, these could include company agreements .