Take part in Franz & Wach's big summer competition and win gift vouchers worth up to 150 euros! We are launching a big summer competition on our social media channels. For this purpose, drinking bottles with the inscription "Here I am right!" are currently being distributed to customers and employees. Participation is very simple: Position the bottle on your [...]
Collective wage increase in temporary staffing as of April 1
Collectively agreed wages in temporary employment will rise on April 1. This also increases the number of cases in which temporary workers earn more than permanent employees. The next collective wage increase in temporary staffing takes effect at the beginning of the month. As a result, the minimum wage in temporary employment will rise to 13 euros per hour, one euro above the currently applicable statutory minimum wage. Across all pay groups [...]
Nominated for the Grand Prix of Medium-Sized Businesses
For the third time in a row Franz & Wach is nominated for the "Mittelstands-Oskar" of the Oskar-Patzelt-Foundation We received a joyful mail from the jury of the "Großer Preis des Mittelstandes" these days: After 2021 and 2022, we were nominated again this year for the award, which is also often referred to as the "Oscar for medium-sized businesses". Managing Director Andreas Nusko [...]
The completed shell of our corporate headquarters will soon be much more than a modern office building. It expresses our management principle architecturally. It was just six months ago that we celebrated the groundbreaking ceremony for the new company headquarters. We already knew then that great things were to come, and now the shell of the building already makes it visible that Franz & [...]
The extension of the maximum period of temporary employment in the metal and electrical industry to 48 months is about to be concluded. Following the agreement between IG Metall and the employers' association Gesamtmetall, the official decision is now pending as part of negotiations on industry surcharges. The agreement makes it clear that IG Metall also understands the benefits of the extended maximum period of temporary employment [...]
Management model: Unlimited vacation and free time management
A year ago, Franz & Wach introduced the groundbreaking rule that every employee is free to decide how to allocate his or her time. What was the result? You can imagine how big our eyes got when we learned about the introduction of trust-based working hours. From then on, every employee was basically free to decide when and how [...]