STATUS AND DEFINITION
OF NON-TARIFF EMPLOYEES
Information from the IG BCE.
Definition of non-tariff employees
compared with employees who are
covered by collective agreements and
executive staff.
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STATUS AND DEFINITION
OF NON-TARIFF EMPLOYEES
Information from the IG BCE.
Definition of non-tariff employees compared with employees
who are covered by collective agreements and executive staff.
1. Exemption from collective agreement
2. Differentiation from executive staff
The question of whether the status of non-tariff employee
is legally accurate fundamentally depends on the applicable
collective agreement. Most collective agreements contain
provisions which define the status of tariff and non-tariff
employees.
As regards working conditions, the question of differentiation from
“executives” always has to be considered. As a general rule, non-tariff
staff have the status of employee. This means they are covered by
the legislation which protects employees, such as the legal standards
on occupational health and safety, working hours, holiday leave and
continued payment of salary in case of sickness. These statutory
regulations do not apply to executive staff. The definition of execu­
tive staff is specified in Section 5 Betriebsverfassungsgesetz.
The collective agreement for the chemicals industry, for
example, specifies the following criteria:
The collective agreement does not apply to employees . . .
1.Remit
. . . “whose remit entails higher requirements than those
demanded of the highest employee group covered by
the collective agreement and” . . .
2. Pay and working conditions
. . . “whose pay and general working conditions when
considered as a whole exceed the minimum provisions
specified in the collective agreement and” . . .
3. Non-tariff employment contract
. . . “have an individual employment contract which
is outside the scope of validity of the collective agree­
ment” . . .
4. Co-determination of works council
Executive staff are persons who, under their employment contract
and by their status in the company or establishment,
. . . “have been deemed exempt from the collective
agreement with the approval of the works council
pursuant to Sections 99 ff. Betriebsverfassungsgesetz
(German Industrial Relations Act)”
1.are entitled on their own responsibility to engage and dismiss
employees on behalf of the establishment or one of its depart­
ments; or
This example refers only to companies which apply the
area-wide collective agreement for the chemicals industry.
Other collective agreements for different areas or individual
companies usually contain similar provisions for the definition
of non-tariff employees, although these may differ in some
individual details.
This means that non-tariff employees should first examine
the applicable collective agreements, as they may in fact be
covered by the provisions of these agreements and are there­
fore only “pseudo” non-tariff employees.
2.are endowed with general authority or full power of representation and the latter is also important in relation to the employer; or
3.regularly carry out other duties which are important for the
­existence and development of the company or an establishment
and the fulfilment of which requires particular experience and
knowledge if, in doing so, they either essentially make decisions on
their own responsibility or substantially influence these decisions;
this may also be the case with stipulated procedures, particularly
those based on legal provisions, plans or guidelines and when
­cooperating with other executive staff.
A non-tariff employee is therefore an employee who is neither
­covered by the scope of the applicable collective agreement nor a
member of the executive staff.
The employee’s status can be established in declaratory proceedings
before a court of law. However, it is usually simpler in the course of
the next works council elections to contact the election committee,
which can establish the status of executive staff or employee. In case
of doubt, this decision would have to be challenged by the employer.
This saves the employee the process of open confrontation.
Exemption from the collective agreement depends on grading by
the works council pursuant to Section 99 Betriebsverfassungsgesetz.
This normally takes place in the course of recruitment or transfers.
However, employees are also entitled to have their allocation to a
tariff group checked at any other time, i.e. to verify whether they
are entitled to belong to one of the groups covered by the collective
agreement. This can only succeed if the employee is a member of the
trade union which has signed the collective agreement concerned.
In recent years, the once desirable status of non-tariff employee has
increasingly deteriorated into an instrument for imposing additional
working hours without additional pay – even if in most cases the
employment contract would not actually be exempt from the collec­
tive agreement (cf. above).
Many non-tariff employees could already legitimately demand allo­
cation to the highest tariff group, inclusive of the resulting regular
working hours and all other benefits of the collective agreement. This
would rapidly improve working conditions in the non-tariff sector.
Collective agreements therefore also protect the working conditions
for non-tariff employees.
We can help – but we need you to help us achieve sensible working
time models and pay regulations in the non-tariff sector.
United we stand.
Further information for non-tariff employees is available
in the special flyers such as
Working hours for non-tariff
employees
WORKING HOURS FOR
NON-TARIFF EMPLOYEES
Working time regulations for nontariff employees – potential forms
and legal restrictions.
Information from the IG BCE.
Working hours for non-tariff
employees.
Remuneration of
non-tariff employees
Remuneration of non-tariff
employees – potential
forms and legal rights.
REMUNERATION
OF
NON-TARIFF EMPL
OYEE
S
Information from
the IG BCE.
Remuneration of
non-tariff
employees – poten
tial forms and
legal rights.
STATUS AND DEFINITION OF NON-TARIFF EMPLOYEES
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