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Nahles is to become the new head of the Federal Employment Agency

2022-01-25T19:34:25.823Z


Nahles is to become the new head of the Federal Employment Agency Created: 2022-01-25Updated: 2022-01-25, 8:24 p.m Andrea Nahles is to succeed Detlef Scheele. © Thomas Frey/dpa Coping with the pandemic, shortage of skilled workers, structural change: there is a lot to do for the Federal Employment Agency. At the top there is a change - there is a comeback. Berlin/Nuremberg - The former SPD lea


Nahles is to become the new head of the Federal Employment Agency

Created: 2022-01-25Updated: 2022-01-25, 8:24 p.m

Andrea Nahles is to succeed Detlef Scheele.

© Thomas Frey/dpa

Coping with the pandemic, shortage of skilled workers, structural change: there is a lot to do for the Federal Employment Agency.

At the top there is a change - there is a comeback.

Berlin/Nuremberg - The former SPD leader and Minister of Labor Andrea Nahles is to become the new head of the Federal Employment Agency.

Employees and employers of the self-governing authority presented the cornerstones of a personnel package on Tuesday.

A decision by the board of directors is still pending.

The federal government still has to agree.

Nahles, who is currently President of the Federal Post and Telecommunications Agency, would return to a larger stage.

CEO Scheele resigns

As the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA) and the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) announced on Tuesday, Nahles is to become chairwoman of the board of directors of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the suggestion of the employees.

She would thus become Detlef Scheele's successor.

The 65-year-old - also an SPD man and former Hamburg Senator for Social Affairs - has been BA boss since 2017 and will soon be retiring.

The BA board is to grow from three to four members.

The employers suggested Katrin Krömer and Vanessa Ahuja as new board members.

To date, Krömer has been the head of human resources and management development at Deutsche Bahn AG, while Ahuja is head of department at the Federal Ministry of Labor.

She is considered a proven BA expert and already sits on the board of directors for the public sector.

All three new board members have yet to be elected by the board.

Daniel Terzenbach, who has been part of the management for almost three years, completes the board.

Employers initially against Nahles

Nahles (51) resigned as party and faction leader in 2019 after an SPD debacle in the European elections and internal pressure.

Previously, she was Federal Minister of Labor from 2013 to 2017.

However, her expertise was initially questioned by the employers.

The trade union side, on the other hand, considers Nahles to be a profound expert on the subject.

In addition to Scheele, BA board member Christiane Schönefeld is also retiring.

Employers and trade unions announced that the aim of the social partners when filling the appointments for the future board of directors was to mutually set up a team that is prepared for the extraordinary challenges.

"Epochal Challenges"

According to employers and trade unions, the Federal Employment Agency will have to shoulder enormous, “even downright epochal challenges” in the coming years. They mentioned the management and consequences of the corona pandemic in the processing of short-time work benefits, the implementation of the coalition agreement and the management of structural change, transformation and the shortage of skilled workers. Business associations are warning of an intensification of the shortage of skilled workers in the coming years.

In addition, all of this also occupies the BA itself as an employer, according to the BDA and DGB: “Budget consolidation, personnel management and digitization of the administration will also make additional demands on the future board.” The federal agency has had record expenditures in the past two years, mainly because of expensive short-time work.

The two bloated budgets with a volume of 61 and 58 billion euros completely ate up a reserve of almost 27 billion euros.

From this year on, the Nuremberg authorities are hoping for more normal spending of 38 billion euros.

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CEO Scheele had always asserted that short-time work was expensive - but the alternative would have been an increase in unemployment.

This would have been significantly more expensive and the consequences for those affected would have been significantly more serious.

Corona crisis has cost 52 billion euros so far

CFO Schönefeld recently told the German Press Agency that the federal agency would need a long time to build up a reserve to fight off the crisis after the pandemic years.

According to previous calculations, the Corona crisis alone cost the Federal Agency around 52 billion euros.

In addition to overcoming the pandemic, the BA will have other tasks.

The traffic light coalition wants the federal agency to play a stronger role in qualification and related advice, as stated in the coalition agreement.

In addition, with a qualification allowance based on short-time work benefits, the BA can enable companies undergoing structural change to retain their employees through qualification and to secure skilled workers.

Furthermore, a reform of the Hartz IV legislation is planned, which would have to be implemented by the federal agency.

The BA, headquartered in Nuremberg, is the largest German authority with around 100,000 employees.

dpa

Source: merkur

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