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07/25/2022 | Campus-Meldung

Prof. Wolfgang Schroeder appointed to Labor Council

Federal Minister of Labor Hubertus Heil has appointed six new experts to the Council of the Working World. In the future, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schroeder, a political scientist from Kassel, will also work together with the current members of the Council on the Working World Report for the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs.

Portrait photo Prof. Wolfgang Schroeder.Image: David Ausserhofer (WZB).
Portrait photo Prof. Wolfgang Schroeder.

The Working Environment Council is intended to provide orientation and recommendations for action on changes in the working environment, to highlight processes of change in companies and their impact on employees and working conditions, and thus to encourage greater public discussion of the topic of "work". In 2021, the Council presented its first Working Environment Report on this subject. At its last meeting on June 15, 2022, the Council began work on the next report. The report is to be handed over to Federal Minister Heil in spring 2023.

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schroeder is now also a member of the Working Environment Council. He has been Professor of the Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany at the University of Kassel since 2006. From 2003 to 2006, he was head of the Social Policy Department at the Executive Board of IG Metall, and in 2005 he was also a Visiting Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. From 2009 to 2014, he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Women and Family of the State of Brandenburg. He focuses on the transformation of labor relations (employee vs. employer organizations) and the structural change of the welfare state. Wolfgang Schroeder's numerous memberships and honorary activities include membership of the SPD's Commission on Fundamental Values and serving as an advisor to research projects of the Hans Böckler Foundation.

Other members appointed to the Council of the Working World include labor market economist Prof. Dr. Melanie Arntz, works council chair Alexandra Friedrich, founder and entrepreneur Anna Kaiser, former Group HR manager Franz Donner and labor scientist Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sascha Stowasser. A further appointment is to be made at the suggestion of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations for the retired Council member Dr. Bettina Volkens.

To the Council of the Working World: https://www.arbeitswelt-portal.de/arbeitsweltbericht/der-rat-der-arbeitswelt