Short information for applications as academic employees (in German)
Please note the requirement to apply for works council participation!
According to the Staff Representation Act of the State of Brandenburg, the Works Council for Academic and Artistic Staff can only represent you upon your explicit request in the form of a Works Council Participation Application. You can find the form at the following link: Application Works Council Representation.
Please attach this application to your employment documents or submit it at any time during your employment or upon its extension.
Booklet: Information on concluding employment contracts at the UP (in German)
Hiring and thus concluding an employment contract are among those administrative processes that consume time and effort for everyone involved. The works council for academic and artistic staff directly oversees many of these hiring processes within the scope of its co-determination rights under the Staff Representation Act for the State of Brandenburg (PersVG Bbg), or at least provides advice when colleagues contact us personally.
It is important for the employees being hired that the recruitment process is transparent, complies with legal and collective bargaining regulations, and leads to a reliable outcome. Our consulting practice has shown that fundamental questions are repeated, and inexperience with processes at the University of Potsdam can lead to confusion and conflict. This has prompted us to compile some of our answers: Information on concluding employment contracts at the UP.
Wir hoffen, dass die Broschüre dazu beitragen wird, das Informationsdefizit zu verringern, das speziell beim Thema „Berücksichtigung von förderlichen Zeiten“ bei den Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern besteht.
We hope that this brochure will help to reduce the information deficit that exists among employees, especially regarding the topic of “taking into account beneficial working periods” (Berücksichtigung förderlicher Zeiten).
