According to the German Federation of Trade Unions (DGB), Lower Saxony's universities need more money. The state must make more efforts to strengthen the university location and the universities themselves, said Mehrdad Payandeh, chairman of the DGB district Lower Saxony-Bremen-Saxony-Anhalt on Tuesday in Hanover. From the point of view of the DGB, one problem is the high percentage of temporary employees among the academic staff.
Hanover - In a survey among five universities in the state, 88 percent of the academic staff stated that they were employed on a fixed-term basis.
According to the DGB, this is nine percentage points more than the national average.
According to the information, 18 percent of those employed in technology and administration are employed on a temporary basis - two percentage points more than in the nationwide comparison.
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Around 1200 employees from five universities in the state took part in the survey - these were scientific employees as well as employees from technology and administration.
According to the report, academic staff in Lower Saxony work almost ten hours a week;
the average contractual weekly working time is 32.5 hours.
However, the report presented on Tuesday is based on data collected between September and November 2019.
Possible changes of the corona pandemic on the everyday work of employees have therefore not yet been recorded.
Payandeh said the workload had increased tremendously in the pandemic.
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