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NORDMETALL is the Employers’ Association of the Metal and Electrical Industries

NORDMETALL is a service provider for businesses in the metal and electrical industries in Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, North-West Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein. Our approximately 2670 members include mechanical engineers, shipyards, companies in the aerospace and automotive industries, steel producers and specialists in medical and electrical engineering. They employ around 130,000 people in the north of Germany.

We are in constant dialogue with all socially-relevant groups (employment agencies, pension funds, employers liability insurance associations and the Institute for the German Economy) and enables members to exchange information with each other.

Personal, fast, competent advice and information for businesses are of the highest order. They are guaranteed by our expert team of attorneys, engineers, business administration specialists, economists and our offices in Bremen, Bremerhaven, Emden, Hamburg, Kiel, Neubrandenburg, Oldenburg, Rostock, Schwerin and Wilhelmshaven. In order to be able to offer you comprehensive solutions, our specialists work closely on a cross-departmental basis.

You will benefit from the wide range of services of the NORDMETALL employers association and its extensive network.

What services are included in the membership fee?

Legal advice and representation in labor and social law and in the international deployment of personnel
An exclusive network with low-cost membership, with or without tariff commitment
Customized solutions by a 60-strong team of specialist lawyers, experts in labor market, education and collective bargaining policy, human resources, work organization and communication
Holistic, experienced on-site support at a fixed price
Modern, high-quality events, analog and digital, with relevant personalities
Participation in cultural highlights and social responsibility through the NORDMETALL Foundation
Labor science support, e.g. optimization of work organization, improvement of production systems, modernization of working time arrangements and new remuneration systems as well as company pension schemes and partial retirement schemes
Support for transformation processes, e.g. digital structural change
Occupational safety and health management
Securing skilled workers, marketing to young people, qualification of specialists and managers
Regular up-to-date information from these areas

Making the right decisions

Attorneys specialising in employment law advise and represent the companies competently in all areas of individual and collective employment law. NORDMETALL thus also helps to avoid expensive wrong decisions in matters of personnel and employment law.

Trust our competence

Advice on individual employment law and works council constitution law
Representation in all employment tribunal and social court proceedings
Employment law support for all types of operational change
Support in conciliation proceedings
Drafting and negotiation of employer/works council agreements
Specimen agreements/work resources

Securing future technical and management staff

Gaining and securing suitable technical and management staff now present many companies with increasing challenges. In order to guarantee their competitiveness and capacity for innovation, NORDMETALL and the NORDMETALL foundation are making a commitment in the form of a “learning curve” (from nurseries, primary education and vocational training to higher education and CPD).

Benefit from our training work

Supports pre-school, educational and academic training projects aimed at improving the conditions for training and study
Provides careers advice to promote targeted, appropriate career choices
Supports and promotes in-house training
Initiates work-related study models
Promotes innovative, ground-breaking approaches to research and exclusive networking with the member businesses
Initiates and promotes continuing professional development, offering affordable seminars
Represents members’ interests in training and employment market policy

Finding comprehensive solutions

One of the main tasks of NORDMETALL is to draft the conditions of employment and business for our members. Our collective agreements represent a contemporary reconciliation of general minimum requirements with individual corporate structural possibilities. The combination of these stipulations determines the employment conditions in the businesses. Our team, which consists of attorneys, engineers, business administration specialists and economists, is at your disposal for advice and will help you to produce and implement practical solutions in the fields of collective bargaining law, personnel policy and business management.

Make use of our knowledge

Implementation of industry-wide collective agreements, taking account of the legal and actual general conditions
Negotiation of company-specific supplementary collective agreements
Optimisation of personnel policy
Improvement of production systems
Advice on protecting jobs
Advice on occupational health
Introduction and implementation of new remuneration systems
Modernisation and improvement of the working time structure in the business
Quantitative and qualitative analysis of the change in demographics
Analysis of KPIs
Advice on matters arising from the support of collective bargaining law by social security legislation, particularly occupational pensions and pre-retirement part-time employment
Explanations, information and specimens for implementation of collective bargaining rules

Active at European and international level

In many cases, directives and other projects adopted at European and international level concern employment law, which affects not only international companies but also businesses domiciled in Germany.

Benefit from our knowledge and our network

Support in employment law matters with a European or international aspect, particularly regarding foreign secondments
Arranging European and international contacts, both with companies in other countries and with decision-makers in Brussels
Expressing the interests of our member businesses in respect of draft
directives or other projects at European level

Always in the know

The thread can easily be lost when countless regulations and updates in employment law, manpower studies and other fields have to be reconciled with competition-oriented management.

Stay up-to-date with us

Hands-on events, in-house training, working parties and networking for managers, HR managers, departmental managers, engineers and PR officers
Work resources, explanations, specimens
Fortnightly newsletter service ("NORDMETALL EXPRESS", responsively designed for your smart phone and tablet)
NORDMETALL website with exclusive password protected member content
Members magazine for managers: "STANDPUNKTE"
Monthly journal for your staff: "AKTIV im Norden"

And we also contribute our knowledge at exclusive personal meetings with our member businesses.

Finding a receptive public audience

Skilled media handling saves a lot of trouble and stress and creates a positive public image of the company. Practitioners support you with valuable tips and help prepare you for a public event. As the mouthpiece for business in Northern Germany, we publicly express businesses views on the economy, society and social policy.

Enhance your presence

Media training and preparation for public events
Advice for management on the specific targeting of various media
Image of businesses and entrepreneurs in our media
Public portrayal of employers points of view and commitment