Workshop Council
A workshop council represents the interests of disabled people who are employed in the work area of recognized workshops for disabled people (WfbM).
As of January 1, 2018, a total of 294,243 disabled people within the meaning of Section 221 SGB IX were employed in one of the 736 WfbMs in the Federal Republic of Germany , including 264,895 in the work area.
Colloquially, the individual member of this body is also referred to as the workshop council.
Legal basis
The legal basis is the Workshop Participation Ordinance , which regulates the establishment, composition, tasks and election of the workshop council.
There are separate regulations for institutions of religious communities: the Diakonie participation regulation and the Caritas participation regulation. These must at least meet the requirements of the state regulations.
The workshop council is elected every four years by the disabled people in the working area of the workshop. The workshop councils form state working groups in the federal states, which have come together at the federal level to form the Werkstatträte Deutschland eV association.
State working groups
There are state working groups (LAG) of workshop councils (WR) in all 16 federal states.
- LAG WR Baden-Württemberg
- LAG WR Bavaria
- LAG WR Berlin
- LAG WR Brandenburg
- LAG WR Bremen
- LAG WR Hamburg
- LAG WR Hessen
- LAK WR Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- LAG WR Lower Saxony
- LAG WR North Rhine-Westphalia
- LAG WR Rhineland-Palatinate
- LAG WR Saarland
- LAG WR Schleswig-Holstein
- LAG WR Saxony
- LAG WR Saxony-Anhalt
- LAG WR Thuringia
Individual evidence
- ↑ People in workshops statistics of the BAG WfbM , January 22, 2019
- ↑ Diakonie-Werkstättenmitbeitungsverordnung (DWMV) of May 19, 2017
- ↑ Jürgen Groteschulte: New Caritas Workshop Participation Ordinance 2017. Accessed on March 11, 2019
- ↑ Workshop Councils Germany website accessed on March 11, 2019
- ↑ The members of workshop councils Germany web links to the state working communities of workshop councils in the federal states, accessed on March 11, 2019