WACKER does a lot to help employees successfully integrate their careers and private lives. Our modern work-time systems are extremely flexible and offer considerable individual leeway. We have a wide range of flexi-time models, including a self-regulated system based on trust. Wherever possible, we offer both full-time and part-time jobs, even for shift workers in continuously operating plants. WACKER also enables individual employees to work from home (an option that may be combined with part-time work), and authorizes unpaid leave for urgent private business.
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Part-time employees, Domestic Group |
790 |
755 |
749 |
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Female |
632 |
602 |
610 |
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158 |
153 |
139 |
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Percentage of part-time employees, Domestic Group |
6.5 |
6.5 |
6.6 |
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Semi-retired employees |
892 |
911 |
841 |
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Thereof in non-active phase of semi-retirement |
359 |
456 |
513 |
Another key aspect of WACKER’s HR policy focuses on balancing family life with work. The varied range of work-time models reflects the circumstances specific to men and women at particular stages in their lives. In 2008, WACKER was one of the first companies to sign a joint declaration on Germany’s Family as a Success Factor business network – which has its origins in an initiative launched by the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs and the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce. Acting as a platform for companies and associations, the network is committed to a family-oriented management approach. In the declaration, WACKER is committed to heeding the needs of employees with family obligations and to offering suitable support – with childcare, for example, and the return to work after parental leave.
At many of its locations, WACKER promotes childcare services for its employees. Kindergarten and after-school care facilities are available in the Wöhler-Kinderhaus, located very close to the Burghausen site. WACKER puts its Munich-based employees in contact with local preschool facilities. These employees can also use, free of charge, the services of pme Familienservice GmbH, which arranges childcare and vacation programs for school kids. In 2008, WACKER’s Siltronic subsidiary signed a collaborative agreement with a local Freiberg day-care center, which offers Siltronic a fixed number of preschool places and, if required, extended opening times.
Since 2007, WACKER employees based at any German site receive free advice about nursing care and specific illnesses. Employees can contact pme Familienservice GmbH not only if they fall ill or need long-term nursing care, but also if they want advice about arranging care for a close relative.