The working time dialogue in trialogue format

The working time dialog in trialog format

With the Green Paper "Arbeiten 4.0 - Arbeit weiter denken" (Work 4.0 - Thinking Work Ahead), the German Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS) has provided impetus for a discussion process on the future design of work. Against the backdrop of technological innovations as well as demographic and cultural changes, which are accompanied by new demands on the organization of work, ways of designing an innovative working time policy are to be discussed.

To mark the occasion, the BMAS commissioned the Berlin Governance Platform to hold two trialogue events to which social partners, representatives of civil society and academia were invited. The results of the two trialogue events were incorporated into the White Paper on Working 4.0, which was published in fall 2016.

The results of the working time dialog that have found their way into the White Paper on Working 4.0. include the following broadly supported findings and proposals:

1. a change in the corporate and management culture is necessary for innovative working time organization.

2. there is a need for research on the health burdens of knowledge work and on the multiple burdens of work and family.

3. there is a need for a social dialogue on and promotion of models for individual working time over the course of a person's life, for example in the form of a long-term employment account that takes better account of time requirements over the course of a person's life.

4. the return from part-time to full-time work should be legally secured.

5. there is great potential in the establishment of experimental spaces on rest periods and maximum daily working hours, flanked, if possible, by existing tripartite platforms in their implementation.

1st Trialogue: Challenges and Opportunities of Innovative Working Time Design | July 8, 2016

The goal of this trialogue was the direct exchange of relevant social stakeholder groups on the challenges and opportunities of an innovative organization of working time that takes into account the interests of employees, companies and existing social interests. In the course of the argumentative exchange between the stakeholder groups, basic consensuses, lines of compromise and differences regarding options for working time and location were identified.

Furthermore, the trialogue identified design options as well as steps and strategies for the implementation of time policy innovations by companies and politics with the support of organized civil society.

2nd Trialogue: Flexible, but self-determined? Ways to new flexibility compromises in working time | August 30, 2016

The discussion of the second trialogue was based on the results of the first trialogue on working time. Basic problems and practical obstacles, requirements and opportunities of flexible working time organization were collected and systematized in the discussion in order to jointly arrive at viable and practicable solutions.

The trialogue identified scope for experimenting with the short-term flexibility needs of companies and the protection of employees against the blurring of boundaries and excessive demands. In addition, opportunities for a life course orientation in the organization of working time and for the expansion of the principle of elective working time were discussed.

DURATION

2016

FUNDER

Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS)

CONTACT

Prof. Dr. Gesine Schwan

PUBLICATION

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