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Retirement Scheme for Civil Servants: Civil Servants Pension
12.08.2010, 10:32 | vor 653 Tagen  
Civil servants receive a retirement pay in form of a civil servants pension. The civil servants pension is often called „Ruhegehalt“or „Beamtenversorgung” (retirement pay)

Piece Work: Definition and Regulations
02.08.2010, 10:38 | vor 663 Tagen  
Piece work is defined as work paid for according to the quantity produces. The output is usually measured by the number of pieces produced. For this reason piece work is mainly found in manufacturing settings. Piece work is paid on the basis of a piece rate

How to Make a Great Presentation
30.07.2010, 16:14 | vor 665 Tagen  
How to make a great presentation? What you should know about preparing, structure, media

Marketing with Google AdWords
19.07.2010, 14:10 | vor 676 Tagen  
Marketing with AdWords is a form of marketing products or services over the Internet. About the benefits, why online-marketing is worthwile problems with marketing with Google AdWords, alternatives and procedure

Direct Insurance for Employees
28.06.2010, 17:29 | vor 697 Tagen  
The direct insurance for employees is one form of a company pension scheme. Suf-forms can be private pension, cash-value life, unit-linked life insurance. About contributions, tax, payments of direct insurance

Elterngeld: The Family Allowance in Germany
22.06.2010, 10:15 | vor 704 Tagen  
Elterngeld or family allowance in Germany is paid to parents with children born after January 1st, 2007. How much you get, calculator, tax, claiming, benefits, how to claim familiy allowance

Vacation Pay
17.06.2010, 08:46 | vor 709 Tagen  
Vacation pay is a special payment from the employer. There is no compulsion for employee vacation pay by law. But vacation payment can arise due to collective agreements, company agreement, employment contract or repeated business practise. Labour law, amounts

Part Time Work: Reduced Working Hours
15.06.2010, 09:47 | vor 711 Tagen  
Part time work is to perform on a job with working hours being less than in normal jobs. There are different schemes of part time work and regulations on remuneration, vacation, pension, parental leave, work accident, dismissal, side-line jobs, unemployment

Critical Facility: Ability to give and receive criticism
08.06.2010, 08:25 | vor 718 Tagen  
Critical facility is the ability to give and receive criticism. This ability is essential for relationships. It comprise independet judging, pointing out defects to others, receiving and reflecting upon criticism and using it for a change of one's behaviour

Employee-like Self-Employed
03.06.2010, 08:59 | vor 723 Tagen  
A employee-like self-employed is somebody who is exerting a self-employing occupation, is working permanenty for one client and is not employing employees with social insurance. How to compare false self-employment and employee-like self-employed

Board of Directors
02.06.2010, 08:57 | vor 724 Tagen  
Board of Directors or Directors Board is characterized by role, composition, election, remuneration and liability. These are regulated by special acts in Germany. Board of directors are necessary for corporations, associations, GmbHs of 500 employees or more

Company Health Insurance Fund
01.06.2010, 07:15 | vor 725 Tagen  
Company health insurance funds are part of the social insurance and subject to the regulations for statutory health insurances. The insured are apprentices, university students, singles, couples, families, unemployed and even self-employed

Lock-Out
31.05.2010, 10:39 | vor 726 Tagen  
Lock-out and strike are means of labour dispute. The lockout ia an employer-side defensive measure. About requirements, forms, consequences, social insurance and lockout. How to act as an employee and a member of a labour union in case of a lock-out

Repeated Business Practise
30.05.2010, 10:20 | vor 727 Tagen  
Repeated business practise applies when the employer repeatedly displayss certain behaviour, so that the employee can conclude from it that the employer will behave the same in the future, the activity is performed voluntarily. Definition, examples and tips

Student Job
25.05.2010, 10:33 | vor 732 Tagen  
Student graduate jobs are used by students during their semester breaks oa as a side-line job during their studies. About special regualations, kinds and forms of student jobs, tax and social insurance. To what student job is entitled

Vacation Job
05.05.2010, 09:54 | vor 752 Tagen  
A vacation job is a legal fixed-term employment of a school student. A job is legal under certain circumstances. Ever the employer must ensure special conditions. About types of work, social insurance, tax and detailed regulations. Get tips

Child Labour in Germany
04.05.2010, 06:42 | vor 753 Tagen  
Child Labour refers to any employment of a minor-agend person. In Germany any regular employment is legal when a person has left the age of compulsory fulltime school attendance. When child labour is granted, about the exceptions and what to know in detail

Juveniles Occupational Health and Safety
03.05.2010, 07:20 | vor 754 Tagen  
Juveniles occupational health and safety is regulated by an special act. The purpose it to protect young people. For whom it applies, about the compulsory, the constraints on the kind of work and about penalties

Trade Control, also Occupational Health and Safety Authority
02.05.2010, 16:57 | vor 754 Tagen  
Trade control is done by trade supervisory center in Germany. It's also called Occuptational Health and Safety Authority. About remit, legal basis permits, rights and obligations

Home Trading
14.04.2010, 08:36 | vor 773 Tagen  
Home trading is characterised by working self-employed, running a trade business, working in an own facility, for one or several clients, earing entrepreneurial risk, employing up to 2 workers. Work traders have to pay trade tax, they get minimum remuneration

Trade: Definition, Register, Unregister
13.04.2010, 07:26 | vor 774 Tagen  
The definition of trade is: Any activity that is planned an is performed profit-making, except agriculture, forestry and liberal professions. By that definition, traders include craftsmen, producers of goods, marketers, restaurant proprietors, hoteliers

Homework: Doing Home Work Business
12.04.2010, 10:02 | vor 775 Tagen  
Home work, out work or off-site employee is economically dependent on one single client, can schedule his work to his taste, as well as decides on the extent of his work (no employer’s managerial authority) and whose workplace is within his own residence

Trade Tax in Germany
09.04.2010, 08:48 | vor 778 Tagen  
Municipalities charge each trader a trade tax proportional to the trade’s earnings. Each municipality has an own levy rate which multiplies with the base tax amount. The municipalities use the trade tax, along with the land tax, to finance their expenses

Interim Management: Temporary Employment of Managers
08.04.2010, 12:29 | vor 779 Tagen  
Interim Management ist the temporary employment of highly qualified generalists or specialists. For adefined period of time, or until a certain defined event, the interim manager adopts management tasks with operative measures and result responsibility

Employee: Definition, Rights and Obligations
07.04.2010, 08:45 | vor 780 Tagen  
By definition, an employee is someone who is obliged by a civil law contract to work in service of another person in personal dependency. Who counts as an employee, who is not counting, about rights and obligations of an employee, characteristics

Organizationally Independent Unit
06.04.2010, 20:37 | vor 780 Tagen  
Employers are allowed to found organizationally independent units to render major staff related changes in a socially responsible way. Such independent units are supported financially by the federal labour agency. This unit can be subsidiary to the company, or

Absorption Company
01.04.2010, 15:35 | vor 785 Tagen  
When a company must file for bankruptcy, an absorption company can be founded in order to keep the business running. It is founded in collaboration by the debtors and the creditors, partially with governmental participation. The absorption company takes over

Employment Company: Temp Work Organization for Dismissed
31.03.2010, 11:11 | vor 787 Tagen  
One way to alleviate dismissal consequences such as unemployment, for the dismissed, is to react to impending mass dismissal or bankruptcy by founding an employment company (Beschäftigungsgesellschaft) as a temporary solution. About purpose and more

Trade Union: Functions, Membership
30.03.2010, 11:38 | vor 788 Tagen  
The trade union is an organization that cares for the interests of its members, the employees. It acts opposing the employers, that is, company directors, respectively stock owners. About functions, services, representation, organizational form, membership

Transfer Company: Re-Employment Support for Dismissed
30.03.2010, 11:26 | vor 788 Tagen  
A transfer company is run on governmental financing, partially, and an institutionalized support for the employees in finding their next job soon. About features, services, mandates, financing, effects on unemployment benefits, advantages and disadvantages

Educational Bonus Benefit
29.03.2010, 08:24 | vor 789 Tagen  
German Federal government supports further education measures for private persons by an educational bonus benefit (Bildungsprämie) which is supposed to motivate individuals themselves to finance their further education. Who is entitled, prerequisites, prodedur

Work-Related Travel Cost Refund, a Standard Amount for Everyday Routes
25.03.2010, 19:17 | vor 792 Tagen  
In Germany, for one’s daily travelling to work, one can get a tax reduction by a fixed sum per kilometer of the optimal way to work, as income-related expenses – no matter what one’s real costs are, or what one’s actual way to get there is. Conditions

Social Telephone Tariff, or Reduced Telephone Charges
23.03.2010, 08:49 | vor 795 Tagen  
Besides exemption from broadcasting- and television fees, one can also get exempt from part of one’s telephone costs, on application with Deutsche Telekom. They provide the so-called social tariff for recipients of social welfare benefit, Hartz IV benefit

ELENA, Electronic Remuneration Certification, or Job Card
22.03.2010, 19:00 | vor 795 Tagen  
ELENA, the electronic remuneration certification is an easier way for employees to certify their remuneration amounts. Certificates are required when you apply for certain benefits. The introducing of the ELENA method is supposed to unite the employer’s

Foreign Assignment – Social Insurance
11.03.2010, 08:39 | vor 807 Tagen  
Employees with their usual place of residence and workplace in Germany are obliged to be social-insured. This applies as well if a employee is seconded abroad for a limited duration. What you should know about social insurance during a foreign assignment

Foreign Assignment - Tax
08.03.2010, 07:53 | vor 810 Tagen  
When an employee is delegated abroad, tax conditions may change, respectively the wage tax. There are detailed tax treaties in Germany, so-called Doppelbesteuerungsabkommen. What you should know to act right and to avoid special tax payment

Foreign Assignment – Chance or Risk?
08.03.2010, 07:30 | vor 810 Tagen  
Foreign assignment happens when a company sends executives or specialists to work abroad. These persons are also called expatriates. It's a chance and a risk. Reasons, kinds and regulations of a foreign assignment. Tips about your contract, your living

“Me” Brand or Successful Self-Marketing
02.03.2010, 14:45 | vor 815 Tagen  
We like products when they are packed neatly, and the same goes for prominent personages. What do you do for being seen on the job market?

Performance Review
01.03.2010, 15:37 | vor 816 Tagen  
A performance review or performance appraisal can be asked for during the emplyment. It is useful on some occasions. About the reasons, employer's motives, requirements, structure of a performance review. Tips for handling this kind of certificate

Cancellation Agreement: Dismissal by Mutual Agreement
25.02.2010, 08:47 | vor 821 Tagen  
A cancellation agreement is a dismissal by mutual agreement. In this case there are no cancellation periods and no dismissal protection. About the motives for cancellation agreements, subjects, consequences and when it is invalid. Tips and more

Child Benefit
18.01.2010, 17:13 | vor 858 Tagen  
German citizens are entitled to receive child benefit. It is granted for every child from birth until completion of its 18th year. More about how to claim, entitlement, duration, amount, income, income reduction and payment of child benefit

Exemption from Radio and TV Charges (Broadcasting Charges)
08.01.2010, 07:50 | vor 869 Tagen  
Exemption from radio and TV fees is possible for receivers of social welfare benefit and Hartz IV, but also for receivers of education-support benefit, severely disabled. What you need to justify your entitlement, how you apply and where you get the forms

Hartz IV: Additional Income
07.01.2010, 10:11 | vor 870 Tagen  
Additional income you can receive also if you already get Hartz IV benefits. But as sson as additional income exceeds a certain exempt amount, the unemployment benefit II will be reduced. Additional income in detail and calculation examples

Hartz IV Additional Child Benefit
07.01.2010, 09:40 | vor 870 Tagen  
The additional child benefit is paid to support low-earner parents such that they do not require any other Hartz IV benefits. What to know about the criteria, the amount and the calculation of the Hartz 4 additional child benefit

Hartz IV: Health Insurance, Life Insurance and Others
21.12.2009, 18:16 | vor 886 Tagen  
Receiver of Hartz IV benefits get health insurance, nursing care insurance and pension insurance paid. Benefits of the life insurance count as utilizable assets. But some special insurances as riester pension or company pension don't count as utilizable

Hartz IV: Rent and Heating Costs
16.12.2009, 09:48 | vor 892 Tagen  
When you receive Hartz IV benefit, your rent and heating costs are paid by the labour agency. The costs have to be appropriate. About the criteria, the appropriate size of a place, when moving can or cann not be enforced and other conditions

Hartz IV Additional Demand
13.12.2009, 08:24 | vor 895 Tagen  
Receivers of hartz 4 can get benefits for additional demands. Entitled to additional demand benefits are people in exceptional situations. Especiall pregnant women, lone parents, disabled and persons who require above-average-cost nutrition can ask for

Temporary Additional Benefit to Unemployment Benefit II
04.12.2009, 08:08 | vor 904 Tagen  
A temporary additional monthly benefit is paid to persons who did receive unemplyment benefit I and are now receiving unemployment benefit II. This benefit is limited for 2 years. Informations and tips about the preconditions and the height of this benefit

Hartz IV: Assets
03.12.2009, 09:56 | vor 905 Tagen  
One only receives unemployment benefit II or social money, if one is in need of support. In the determination of need of suppor status, all incomes and assets are taken into account. What counts as assets, what is not counted and what is to be subtracted

Hartz IV: Income
02.12.2009, 08:42 | vor 906 Tagen  
Unemployment benefit 2 and social money are only paid if one does not have enough income and assets to maintain a living. What counts as income, what is not counted as income, what is to be subtracted and how to calculate what you can earn besides ALG 2

Unemployment Benefit 2 (ALG II)
01.12.2009, 17:12 | vor 906 Tagen  
Arbeitslosengeld 2 or unemployment benefit 2 is financed by money from tax deduction. The amount granted depends on the need of the recipient. Main component is the regular benefit for daily needs. Entitled receiver has to fulfil some requirements. In detail

Social Money Benefit
30.11.2009, 09:35 | vor 908 Tagen  
Social money get employment-incapable persons. Also they live in a household-unit in need together with a recipient of unemployment benefit 2. Who is a recipient of social money, what are the component benefits, how to calculate the amount, income and assets

Social Welfare Benefit
27.11.2009, 08:17 | vor 911 Tagen  
The social welfare benefit in Germany serves the purpose of enabling the receivers to live a life in accordance with humen dignity. It is given to pesons who are not capable of gainful employment due to any working-inability or due to their age

Integration Agreement
26.11.2009, 10:28 | vor 912 Tagen  
The integration agreement is necessary for jobseekers. It is a contract between the receiver of unemployment benefit 2 and the responsible authority, mostly the ARGE or "Arbeitsagentur". Get informed about the content, when it is not obligatory and more

Household in Need, in Basic Living Security for Jobseekers
25.11.2009, 08:18 | vor 913 Tagen  
The "Bedarfsgemeinschaft" of Hartz IV is a houshold-unit. This community is important for the unemployment benefit 2. What counts as a household-unit, the criteria, obligations and entailed by rating "household-unit in need". Tips and more

Employees Liability
24.11.2009, 17:39 | vor 913 Tagen  
The issue of employees liability comes up when an employee causes a damage, and the damage is related to the employee's work. About the different cases of damages and their follow-up. What you can do as employer and employee

Multitasking
21.09.2009, 09:40 | vor 978 Tagen  
Multitasking at work describes the competency doing several things at the same time. But take care! Human beings can't do things simultaneously. They rotate between tasks constantly. Therefore errors happen, stress is coming up and increases working time

Outplacement, Newplacement and Executive Placement
17.09.2009, 20:29 | vor 981 Tagen  
Outplacement helps employees to find a new job after a dismissal caused by the employer. The outplacement agencies support in job seeking or starting a business. Their services comprise career coaching, further education, resume, assessment, advices

Online Job Portals, Job Searches, Employment and Career Sites
15.09.2009, 15:28 | vor 983 Tagen  
Meanwhile online job portals are often used to find interesting job offers. But there exist thousands of job portals. Therefore it's hard to find the right one. Here you get some tips how to go ahead, which ones to use

Employment Agency or Job Placement Agency
15.09.2009, 13:16 | vor 983 Tagen  
Besides the Federal Labour Agency private employment agencies support jobseekers and apprenticeship seekers. Tips about paying, tasks and employing an agent. How to be successful with the help of a job placement agency

Federal Labour Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit, or Arbeitsagentur, or Arbeitsamt)
10.09.2009, 15:03 | vor 988 Tagen  
The Federal Labour Agency in Germany with its local offices (Arbeitsagentur) renders services around the job market and apprenticeship market. It's financed by the social insurance contributions and by tax revenue. The services include job placement, benefits

Personnel Consulting, Head Hunters, Executive Management Search
09.09.2009, 14:28 | vor 989 Tagen  
Executive management searchers or personnel consultants act in demand of medium and large companies. They look and recruit special professionals or executives, engineers and IT staff. What to know when a head hunter calls you or when you contact one

Job Seeking
07.09.2009, 10:33 | vor 992 Tagen  
Job-seeking requires intensive preparation. Different ways can be successful: job ads, events, networking, companies websites, placement agents. Make a concept and handle the job seeking like a project. Here you get some tips

Job Placement by the Labour Agency and by Private Institutions
07.09.2009, 10:09 | vor 992 Tagen  
Job placement in Germany is done by Labour Agency and private institutions. They run different services and programs: profiling, training, support in application, temporary job placement, internships, minijobs or business startup

The Application Dossier
31.08.2009, 09:28 | vor 999 Tagen  
The application dossier contains application letter, curriculum vitae (CV), application photo, references, working certificates and listing of further education. All about the perfect application dossier to be invited to a job interview

Networking: Fruitful Connection Management
17.08.2009, 13:37 | vor 1012 Tagen  
Networking or connection management is important for your career, but also for freelancers and entrepreneurs. Professional networking has to be learned. About the different kinds of networks, chances, problems and how to behave especially in online networks

Working as a Freelancer
11.08.2009, 16:48 | vor 1018 Tagen  
Freelancers are highly qualified, work as self-employed, are hired on contracts for a certain period of time. Guide and tips for working as a freelancer or as "freier Mitarbeiter" in Germany. Differences to liberal profession or "freiberuflich"

The Curriculum Vitae (CV) – Obligatory in an Application
10.08.2009, 16:53 | vor 1019 Tagen  
Every application contains a curriculum vitae or resume. Samples, layout, tipps how to write a curriculum vitae in Germany

Letter of Reference, or Letter of Recommendation
03.08.2009, 16:14 | vor 1026 Tagen  
Meanwhile you need letters of reference for applying for a job or for the study programme of MBA. Also as a freelancer or self-employed they are useful to prove former activity. How to write a letter of reference or letter of recommendation, samples

The Employment Contract: Basis of the Employment Relationship
03.08.2009, 15:31 | vor 1026 Tagen  
In an employment contract, the rights and duties of the emplyment relationship are defined. There a different types of employment contract. The contract include statements about the kind of work performed, income, vacation, dismissal and working hours.

Applying for a Clearance Record Printout
03.08.2009, 15:01 | vor 1026 Tagen  
You can apply for a police clearance record (in German Führungszeugnis) with your local registration office. When you need it, what's about und how entries are deleted

Turnover Tax Special Audit
30.07.2009, 07:54 | vor 1031 Tagen  
The revenue can order a turnover tax special audit. It is executed within the business premises. It can be ordered at any time. About the possible inducements, the subjects and the procedure af an audit. Get some tipps to pass successfully this tax audit

Start into work – your first days at a new job
28.07.2009, 16:38 | vor 1032 Tagen  
After successful applying you start into work. Your daily business changes a lot. The first days at your new job are important giving a good impression and not risking to be cancelled

The Placing and Reading of Job Advertisements
27.07.2009, 06:27 | vor 1034 Tagen  
Job advertisments include lots of information. To be successful in your application you should read the adverts right. What to know about job advertisements in Germany

The Job Market – Current and Future
24.07.2009, 16:57 | vor 1036 Tagen  
The job market: Onlny knowledge about the different kinds of the labour market distinctions and the permanent analysis of the german job market can help to stay

Pre-employment examination, or works-doctor’s examination
23.07.2009, 13:32 | vor 1037 Tagen  
A pre-employment examination is done after applying for a job and before the employment contract is made. About goal and contents of an examination

Apprenticeship and Apprenticeship Programs
21.07.2009, 10:15 | vor 1040 Tagen  
Apprenticeship programs are defined in the German Vocational Training Act. Get information and tipps how to find the right aprenticeship in Germany

The Trade Representative
21.07.2009, 07:19 | vor 1040 Tagen  
Trade representative, sales agency or commercial agency: Kinds, contract, duties, commission and compensation, cancellation of trade representation

The Warning Letter as a Predecessor of the Dismissal
30.06.2009, 11:19 | vor 1061 Tagen  

50 plus: Job applications by older job hunters
30.06.2009, 09:19 | vor 1061 Tagen  

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