Trenkwalder
Trenkwalder International AG is a staffing company headquartered in the Lower Austrian market town of Brunn am Gebirge.
History
The name of the company goes back to the company's founder, Richard Trenkwalder. In March 1985, Richard Trenkwalder started as a sole trader with a technical office in Lower Austria Schwadorf. During his stay abroad, he learned that in Holland, England and Scandinavia established business " provision of personnel " know. In Austria, this industry was still relatively unknown at this time.
In 1988, Trenkwalder the license for the supply of temporary workers. The foundation stone for later Trenkwalder Personal Services GmbH and Trenkwalder International AG was laid. The company grew and became in a few years the largest supplier of temporary workers in Austria. Opened in 1992, Trenkwalder its first foreign branch in Slovakia. In 1999, the market entry in Germany, Hungary, in 2000 in Italy and the Czech Republic, in 2001 in Slovenia, in 2003 in Croatia, in 2005 in Poland, Romania, Serbia, 2006 in Liechtenstein, Switzerland, 2007 Market entry in Turkey, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Bosnia - Herzegovina, Macedonia and Albania in 2008, Greece.
Were received in 2007 from the Trenkwalder Personal AG services Trenkwalder International AG and Trenkwalder Personal Services GmbH forth. In 2011, the Group has about 70,000 employees generated sales of 1 billion euros. Trenkwalder has more than 300 locations in Austria, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Albania, Liechtenstein and Switzerland on the market.
End of April 2011 was the Droege International Group known from Dusseldorf to have acquired a majority stake of Trenkwalder International AG. Richard Trenkwalder withdrew from operations. As a minority owner remains the Trenkwalder Foundation. Trenkwalder 2011 was awarded by the Federal Government with the prize in the competition "Germany's Best Employer". The competition is conducted annually by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, the New Quality of Work Initiative, the Handelsblatt, the staff magazine and the University of Cologne.
Criticism
In the criticism Trenkwalder came in Germany, where it provides temporary workers for the German branch of Amazon. The ARD on February 13, 2013 broadcast reportage Committed! Temporary workers on Amazon reported of up to 5,000 people, who were recruited as seasonal workers from many European countries on the employment agencies. According to the report authors Diana Löbl and Peter Onneken workers were - in groups traveled in buses - sometimes only informed of their locations in Germany that she would receive as initially agreed temporary contracts of the firm Trenkwalder and less pay. The contracts were written in German language, immediate termination and departure was possible within 24 hours. The around twelve percent decreased in the payslips hourly wages were justified by the temporary employment agency with deductions for payments in kind ( food and lodging ), but these are not shown separately on the invoices. The authors of the report, Diana and Peter Löbl Onneken could know that only an administrative review of the payroll can materialize a possible suspicion of social security fraud pursuant to § 266a StGB.
According to the ARD temporary workers were monitored in rented " self-catering accommodation " and hotels by scary " security guards " HESS. You were right hurtful to the " privacy " of separate workers can penetrate. According to Osthessen -news.de there have been repeated incidents such as fights, thefts and even a rape in the past without the use of wax protection personnel under foreign contract workers. The operators of hostels who thereupon sought dialogue with the police to find a solution to better protect temporary workers. The police had, however, declared that it could intervene only after notification of acts of violence. Therefore, a security company has been committed to the " numerous connections to the right-wing scene " after having representation of ARD. The business model of Amazon.com, the "at least 20 percent of German online commerce and in the same order the book market " dominant, based specifically "on intimidation and mistrust. "
Federal Labour Minister Ursula von der Leyen called for on February 16 because of these incidents in 2013 and warned the Enlightenment responsible for this temp agency before a withdrawal of its license under the AÜG.
The President of the Federal Employers' Association of Personnel Service (BAP ) Enkerts distanced himself in a press release from the reported practices. "We will not allow it, that the image of our industry is so corrupt"
In a current hour on 20 February 2013, the German Parliament, the operations have been criticized by all parties. The employment agency have found obvious irregularities in the temporary work agency ( = Trenkwalder ). The opposition criticized the action of Amazon and the other companies involved, as well as the general trends in the labor market, such as for example in the temporary work. Contrast, the CDU / CSU and the FDP rejected a general crackdown on the entire temporary staffing industry.
Trenkwalder stated that the examination of the duty had not led to a complaint and the examination of the Federal Employment Agency has not confirmed the allegations against the company. This representation was contradicted by the Federal Employment Agency explicitly. It decides on the consequences of the violations of law in administrative proceedings.
The co-author of the documentation from the February 13, 2013 Diana Loebl said on February 27, 2013, the talk show Anne Will, that the described conditions for many people from countries would not be called into question with even more difficult economic situation, as they were happy ever money to earn. Moreover, this fear would have to be sent to the other in opposition to the prevailing practices of one day home. The accommodation in the holiday development Kirchheim Marine Park is still one of the better, other time workers were housed, for example, with 11 people in a 3-room apartment, for which they each 250, - would pay € rent. Paul Schobel, a priest and chaplain of the Young Christian Workers operating said, this only millimeters of states in a labor camp distant states are the expression of a capitalism without borders, 'll exploited in the labor and thus employment and exploited so as it gets.