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Top politicians and top managers preach incessantly that our lives will change completely due to digitization, growing climate protection requirements and the changed way of dealing with one another in society.
The way we work too.
Products, work processes, entire professional groups will disappear and, at best, replaced.
So Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) thought a little more than a year ago that this transformation should be accompanied by a high-ranking expert committee that advises politicians on how to deal with the upcoming upheavals.
But now Heil first has to cope with the upheaval in his “Council of the Working World”.
Because there an open conflict has broken out that could lead to the breakup of the high-caliber committee.
The massive criticism of three women members of the composition of the council and its working methods, which openly duped the minister, has grown into an internal dispute.
Which is likely to annoy the Minister of Labor.
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Because this council could have grown into a body similar to that of the economy, just with a focus on the world of work.
The group is always well-attended: with entrepreneurs and managers, scientists and trade unionists, including ex-Ver.di boss Frank Bsirske.
The council is actually supposed to present a first work report shortly.
But now the work on it is overshadowed by a fire letter from three members to Minister Heil, which is available to WELT.
Janina Kugel, ex-HR director at Siemens, and the former Lufthansa Labor Director Bettina Volkens write in it: "Unfortunately, the advice has developed in a wrong direction from our point of view." They wanted to work in the long term, in principle, but it was now "increasingly possible." short-term political demands and very specific proposals for legal regulations ”.
"This development is increasingly polarizing the internal work of the council and, in our view, means that the committee is in danger of failing," said the managers in the letter, which was also signed by the economist Uschi Backes-Gellner.
You also complain that the composition of the council "from our perspective is not sufficiently balanced socio-politically".
The criticism is aimed directly at the minister.
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Apparently there has been resentment in the body for a long time.
Because turning to the minister critically was discussed.
However, of the twelve councilors only said three members wrote to Heil and that without consultation.
Which, in turn, angered the rest of the council.
There have been letters from at least five members expressing their anger at the actions of the three colleagues.
The tenor of the requests to speak corresponds to the appeal of the entrepreneur and former head of the Chamber of Crafts in Berlin, Stephan Schwarz: Please pull yourself together, not play games and finish the work you have started, the report.
Ex-Ver.di boss Bsirske summarized the position of several members in an email to all council members as follows: “We are dealing here with an initiative aimed at getting out.
Which one or the other may have been playing with for a long time when you think of statements by one of the signatories that they neither have the time nor the resources to familiarize themselves with all possible details. "
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Other council members report that the three signatories must have underestimated the effort involved in working for the council - because it is indeed huge.
And not all members always showed the necessary commitment and were adequately prepared.
Labor Minister Heil is now in an uncomfortable position.
According to Frank Bsirskes, he now has two options: "Either turn in front of the sender".
Or provide them with “the occasion and the legitimation for an apparently irreconcilable content-related differences to leave the council”.
Neither of these options would make Heil look good.
And that's why his ministry does not want to comment on the events on request.