Federal Chemical Employers' Association

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The Federal Employers' Association for Chemistry e. V. (BAVC) represents the interests of German chemical employers. The seat of the association is Wiesbaden. Kai Beckmann has been President since June 2017 .

The association is the collective bargaining and socio-political umbrella organization of the chemical and pharmaceutical industry as well as large parts of the rubber and plastics processing industry. It represents the interests of its 10 regional member associations with 1,900 companies and 580,000 employees towards trade unions, politics and the public. It was founded in 1949. He is a member of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA).

tasks and goals

The main tasks of the association are the conclusion of collective agreements at the federal level, the coordination of the chemical wage policy, the further development of personnel and social policy and the representation of chemical employers towards the state and society. The association primarily represents the interests of chemical companies vis-à-vis the trade unions. Mainly collective bargaining takes place with the industrial union mining, chemistry, energy . The BAVC has concluded numerous social partner agreements with the latter, including the “Code of Ethics” for responsible action in the social market economy . The BAVC has a federal structure.

Members

Its direct members are the ten independent regional chemical employers' associations:

  • Baden-Württemberg Chemical Employers' Association V.
  • Association of the Bavarian Chemical Industry V.
  • Employers' Association of Chemistry and Related Industries for the State of Hessen V.
  • Employers' Association for the Chemical Industry in Northern Germany V.
  • Employers' Association Nordostchemie e. V.
  • State Committee of the Employers' Associations of the Chemical Industry of North Rhine-Westphalia e. V.
  • Employers' Association of Chemistry Rhineland-Palatinate V. based in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , around 130 members with 69,000 employees. Together with the German Chemical Industry Association Rheinland-Pfalz the Community Chemieverbände Rhineland-Palatinate .
  • Employers' Association of the Chemical Industry Saarland e. V.
  • Employers' association of the chemical industry in the Lower Weser region
  • State committee of employers' associations in the chemical industry in Westphalia

Social partnership in the chemical industry

The collective bargaining parties of the chemical industry in Germany have several common institutions, including:

  • Chemical social partner network
  • Chemistry Foundation Social Partner Academy
  • So.WIN - the social partner workshop for innovation and sustainability
  • Chemical Industry Support Association

literature

  • Margret Suckale (Ed.): Chemistry digital - Working world 4.0. Frankfurter Societäts-Medien GmbH, Frankfurt am Main 2016.
  • Hans Paul Frey (Ed.): Preserving - Changing - Shaping. Collective Bargaining Policy and Labor Law in Times of Globalization. Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Wolfgang Goos . Dr. Curt Haefner Verlag, Heidelberg 2009.
  • Walther Müller-Jentsch : Employers' Associations and Social Partnership in the Chemical Industry . In: Wolfgang Schröder / Bernhard Wessels (eds.): Handbook of employers and business associations in Germany . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, pp. 395–417.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ info@bavc.de: The BAVC - BAVC. Retrieved April 4, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Responsible action in the social market economy (PDF; 81 kB)
  3. ^ Members of the Rhineland-Palatinate Chemical Associations on the community website (accessed on May 19, 2016).
  4. ↑ info@bavc.de: Social partner workshop for innovation and sustainability: New joint establishment of the chemical social partners - BAVC. Retrieved May 26, 2017 .
  5. ↑ info@bavc.de: Chemical employers' training campaign starts' Discover elementary diversity '- BAVC. Retrieved May 26, 2017 .