Full-time equivalent

An RTD (English: "Full time equivalent " ) is a figure that comes in personnel management for the application. As German terms are full-time equivalent ( FTE ), full employment unit ( VBE) (especially in the GDR ), full-time worker, full-time employee, full- force, but also man-day (s) or gender-neutral person day (s ) or staff capacity ( s) ( MAK) in use. The term full-time equivalent is prevalent in the public sector, otherwise dominated the anglicism RTD.

RTD expresses the value, the full-time labor force ( full-time → 100 % level of employment) within a comparable time frame renders (day, week, month, year ). A worker who is contractually obliged to eight hours of working time, therefore, provides eight hours in a day, a week, 40 hours etc. work performance.

A team of workers is often of human resources with different levels of employment together (see also: part-time work ). To express the temporal performance of the team, the comparative value RTD enforcement. Two people with 50 % degree of employment arising job performance of 1 FTE.

The term RTD thus forms an established and standardized benchmark ( for example, an indicator for benchmarking).

In the university context, the value of the entire FTE academic staff and the number of students summarizes and serves as a parameter on the basis of contract negotiations will be conducted.

In Germany, according to the Public Disclosure Act ( PublG ) for large companies the obligation to make the average number of workers. Paragraph 1 No. 3 PublG this is the twelfth of the sum of the numbers of staff employed at the end of each month for their workers, including vocational training and employment of employed workers abroad.