Personnel Transfer

In 1999, institutional partners participating in the coalition for jobs, training and competitiveness in the German Land of Northrine-Westphalia came up with the concept of "transfer agencies" as a new way of preserving jobs and avoiding unemployment.

In the context of structural change and economic development, enterprises are regularly undergoing restructuring processes that result in loss of jobs and personnel adjustment. Transfer agencies are seen as an important instrument to avoid unemployment, to shape personnel adjustment processes in a socially compatible way and to preserve and improve the competitiveness of the enterprises. They have been designed with the objective to integrate personnel policies, labour market policies and economic promotion through an efficient combination of interventions and though close cooperation of experts and stakeholders on the enterprise, regional or branch level.

To date, a catalogue of objectives, quality and decision criteria for personnel transfer as an employment promotion instrument is being elaborated. According to it, the objective of personnel transfer is: to support staff threatened or concerned by unavoidable operational dismissal in their endeavours to get into new gainful employment safeguarding their livelihood (relevant conceptual documents may be downloaded here.

This includes activities such as:

• supporting access to new jobs

• organising professional qualification

• advising and counselling employed personnel and entrepreneurs

• supporting start-ups

The enterprises, the Federal Labour Agency and the Ministry in Northrine-Westphalia are contributing to the funding.

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