It is now commonplace in Germany for many companies to hire foreign staff. There are entire sectors in which Eastern European employees are very popular. They are seen as particularly favourable among many, but this is not always right or good. Above all, it is important to find fair working conditions for temporary workers and appropriate measures have been introduced here.
Why are statutory minimum standards for wages and working conditions important?
It is important that Temporary workers have a living wage. This is why minimum wages are set. This enables workers to cover their living costs. Care should be taken to review the minimum wages regularly. It is also important that they are adjusted to the current cost of living.
Working hours need to be limited. Rest periods are important. It protects the health and well-being of employees. It is important to enforce working time guidelines and breaks. This is just as important as ensuring occupational health and safety measures. Setting up preventive healthcare is also important. It protects the health of employees and minimises accidents at work.
Regular inspections are important here. Training is also important to raise awareness of safety risks. It also ensures that safety standards are met.
How can the integration and support of temporary workers be improved?
It is important to set up support measures. They serve to integrate temporary workers into the world of work and the local community and to promote this. There are also cultural orientation programmes that help to improve understanding between employers and employees. Language courses also help to better integrate employees by simply understanding each other better. Furthermore it is also important to give employees the opportunity for a career in the long term. They should also be able to gain qualifications. To this end, you set up access to training and qualification programmes.
Also think about the well-being of the temporary workers at the Employee leasing think. Simple things like finding accommodation, where you support your employees, can help here. But integration into the local community is also crucial.
Why should workers' rights be strengthened?
It is also important to protect the interests of temporary workers. Unfortunately, this is very often forgotten. But it's also about things like collective agreements and co-determination rights. This gives temporary workers fair working conditions, which should be guaranteed in the same way as for local employees. By promoting trade union organisation and solidarity among temporary workers, they will strengthen their negotiating position and stand up for their rights together.
It is helpful here if workers are informed about trade unions and training courses and events are also organised. This strengthens workers' rights.
Furthermore, protection against discrimination and exploitation in the workplace is of crucial importance. Clear legislation is needed here. This must then be consistently enforced. Pay particular attention to anti-discrimination guidelines and measures.
We as professionals at your side
For more than 30 years we have specialised in Temporary work and Subcontractors from Eastern Europe. We are not only committed to fair working conditions, we live them.
We will only provide you with staff who have the relevant certificates and who also speak very good German. Our staff know the job and are quickly available.
As we take our mission very seriously, we work with the workers to take care of their documentation, all legal matters and also provide transport to and from the site, food and accommodation.
We want you as a customer to be satisfied, but we also want the interests of our employees to be safeguarded.
