Bocholt model

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The Bocholt model is a special supplementary collective bargaining agreement (ETV) that was concluded in Bocholt in 2003 at Siemens AG with the service department (worldwide headquarters for the repair of mobile and cordless telephones). The fixed working time of 35 hours per week was converted into a flexible working time of 40 hours per week without wage compensation. In addition, Christmas and vacation pay have been cut , so that employees have wage losses of 20 to 30 percent.

This collective agreement came about because Siemens otherwise threatened to relocate the service area to Hungary.

In 2004, the model was transferred from the service area to the entire development and production in Bocholt and Kamp-Lintfort . At least now, the Bocholt model became known to the general public, in the professional world it was used as a name for extended working hours without wage compensation as early as 2003.

However, the Bocholt model could not prevent Siemens AG from handing over the mobile communications division (including the plant and development in Kamp-Lintfort) to the Taiwanese electronics group BenQ in October 2005 and from Bocholt development and production to the independent Siemens Home and Office Communication GmbH & Co . KG (short: SHC) outsourced. Since the work in Bocholt is (very) profitable, the Bocholt model should expire in mid-2006 at the request of IG Metall , but was extended until the end of 2006.

BenQ Europe filed for bankruptcy at the end of September 2006 and cut more than 1000 jobs by mid-November. On November 4, 2006, the ETV between BenQ and IG Metall was canceled due to the insolvency. The negotiations in Bocholt with Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices GmbH and Co. KG are still pending.