Our employees should be able to integrate their careers and private lives. WACKER is dedicated to this aim. WACKER has a wide range of flextime models, even 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. In individual cases, WACKER enables employees to work from home (an option that may be combined with part-time work), and authorizes unpaid leave for urgent personal matters.

A key aspect of WACKER’s HR policy focuses on ensuring that our employees can balance family life with work. The variety of work-time models reflects the circumstances specific to men and women at particular stages in their lives. 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. In the declaration, WACKER commits itself to taking into account the needs of employees with family obligations and to offering suitable support.

We support childcare and the return to work after parental leave. One example is the return-to-work workshop at the Burghausen site. Day care and after-school care facilities are available at the Wöhler-Kinderhaus, located very close to the plant. A local day-care center offers a fixed number of day care slots to employees at the Siltronic site in Freiberg, Saxony. At the Munich site, pme Familienservice GmbH helps employees find kindergarten and preschool places.

At all its German sites, WACKER offers a service for family emergencies. Whether employees themselves or family members fall ill or need nursing care, advice can be obtained from pme Familienservice GmbH.