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More money, more employees?
The district is considering paying allowances in the future.
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The district wants to address the issue of allowances.
The background is that it is becoming increasingly difficult for the district office to find employees.
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen – wonderful mountains, beautiful lakes, many leisure activities: the district is attractive.
Unfortunately, life here is also very expensive.
So expensive that many people orient themselves away from here when choosing a job.
Added to this is demographic change, with large cohorts retiring and small cohorts unable to fill the gap.
When it comes to recruiting skilled workers, it is important for employers to be as attractive as possible.
The district committee therefore now also addressed the question of what monetary incentive systems could be created in order to continue to find enough staff for the district office in the future.
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Half of the workforce will retire in the next 15 years
Human resources manager Jürgen Huber showed the current situation.
Looking at the age structure, 50 percent of the workforce would leave the company due to age in the next 15 years.
It is already becoming increasingly difficult to fill vacancies.
“We still manage to do it, but it often takes a long time.” This puts a strain on the employees who work in the understaffed area.
“We have to think about personnel management,” said Huber.
To date, the district has not made use of financial incentive systems
We're already trying a few things.
They work with career changers, offer opportunities for further qualification and home office, have entered into company health management and, last but not least, have childcare places in-house.
“But the question is whether that is enough.” The district has not yet made use of financial incentive systems such as labor market or skilled worker allowances or travel subsidies.
In principle he could do that.
“We have to think about whether we want to take the money into our hands,” said Huber.
The issue of affordable housing should also be examined
The district committee members did not have to decide yet.
The only thing that was unanimously decided was a general mandate for the administration to look into the issue in more detail.
At one of the next meetings, suggestions will be made as to which incentives could actually make sense.
“Absolutely sensible and necessary,” said Klaus Barthel (SPD).
In his view, it would also be important to create affordable housing for employees.
District Administrator Josef Niedermaier (FW) replied that this would not be feasible for a district administration.
Barthel nevertheless asked that the topic be included in the examination.