Würth pays employees 4000 euros inflation bonus - "Not just nice words"
Created: 12/23/2022, 3:27 p.m
By: Patricia Huber
Around 7000 employees at the screw manufacturer Würth can be particularly happy this year.
You get a whopping extra payment.
Künzelsau – With the third relief package, the federal government introduced the inflation premium.
This allows companies to pay their employees a tax-free bonus of 3,000 euros.
The problem: In view of the high energy prices, many companies cannot afford to pay their employees so generously.
Würth: 4,000 euros for each employee
With a well-known traditional German company, however, things are different.
The screw manufacturer Würth will help its employees with a bonus.
In an interview with the Handelsblatt
, Reinhold Würth, head of the family business, says
that every employee is "first and foremost given a lot of recognition, respect and gratitude" via the traditional Christmas letter.
There is also a bonus: "Every employee at Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG, i.e. the parent company, receives the 3000 euros tax-free inflation adjustment and has also already received a special payment of 1000 euros net.
Our employees are happy when you not only say nice words, but also pay something," Würth told the newspaper.
Around 7000 people work in the parent company.
Reinhold Würth pays his employees a whopping inflation bonus.
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Würth bought paintings for 20 million euros
But Würth does not only invest a lot of money in its employees.
In the
Handelsblatt
interview, he also revealed that he bought the "Self-Portrait Yellow-Rose" by the artist Max Beckmann for 20 million euros.
After this auction, the auction house announced: "It is the highest price that has ever been achieved in Germany for a work of art at an auction, and the second highest price worldwide for a self-portrait of the artist."
But Würth does not want to claim the valuable work of art for itself.
"Sooner or later it will appear in our exhibitions, so everyone can look at it for free," he told
Handelsblatt
.
When asked how many works of art Würth now has, the billionaire said: "We are moving towards 20,000."
(ph / dpa)
