The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf) got itself back into the news (Focus article I was reading this morning). Briefly, two stories which have little to do about the scandal.
1. The lawyer representing the former chief of the BamF branch in Bremen....had her lawyer do some talking in public yesterday. Oddly, she was put out on a complaint in 2017, but it had nothing to do with migrants....instead....a sexual assault.
Yes, one of the folks who worked in the BamF branch for BamF....wrote up allegations against the chief. The comment by the lawyer? This was lodged and created a snowball affect, but it was done by the employee to distract herself. This would suggest that the chief might have been investigating numbers and reports early on.
I'm curious about this, it does happen a good bit in US firms. Little else has been said over the atmosphere within the BamF office there in Bremen, and this might explain part of the issue.
2. The second note comes up from the headquarters of BamF and says that several hundred temporary employees are going to be let go. But the BamF folks readily admit....they have work, and really need the people.
The cause here? The German government (always in brilliant character) got all hyper and negative about fixed-term contracts (short-term beginner contracts). Evil.....absolutely evil.
So there is an official ban on extensions of fixed-term contracts (which is what they used to bring these personnel onboard. The BamF folks are limited to only 1,937 permanent employees. How many 'temps' exist? Oh my....3,200 folks.
What will happen? If you read the article, they are preparing termination notices to the 3,200 as they reach the maximum number of months, and will let them go. Then they will advertise the positions as open and go through the HR process to hire 'new' employees.
German law forbids chain contracts for non-permanent employees. Could this be fixed? Only if a new budget was written up and a fair amount of money deposited into the situation. Course, this would require both the CDU and SPD to work this out, and if you write something like this....it would affect ALL divisions of the German government and create an wave-affect.
While a bit amusing.....it is crappy the way that these folks will be handled and dismissed. If you go and bring up fixed-term contracts....it's one of those top forty topics for the SPD, Greens, and Linke Party folks. They hype the negative nature all the time. Companies like the deal because they aren't on the hook for dismissal costs.
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