Employer and employee representatives are calling for a differentiated solution for training companies in the Altkreis Darmstadt
Darmstadt. The planned reorganization of the vocational school landscape by the science city of Darmstadt and the district of Darmstadt-Dieburg met with sharp criticism. The employer and employee representatives in the Vocational Training Committee (BBA) of the IHK Darmstadt Rhein Main Neckar are calling for a course correction. The background is the one -sided termination of the so -called old circle regulation, which has enabled training companies in the western district for decades to train their trainees to Darmstadt vocational schools.
In the future, according to current plans, around 350 trainees from 70 companies from the "Altkreis Darmstadt"-including places such as Weiterstadt, Griesheim or Pfungstadt- only be trained at the district administrator-Gruber School (LGS) in Dieburg , provided that the respective apprenticeship is offered there. According to the IHK, this would have serious consequences: trainees would have to raise an average of six additional shuttle days per year , companies lose over 750 productive working days annually , absenteeism increases, and the attractiveness of vocational training is falling as a whole.
Training quality and protection of skilled workers in danger
The representatives of the vocational training committee particularly criticize the lack of professional and local differentiation of the plans. In her view, a flat -rate movement to Dieburg is "economically, structurally and ecologically not portable". The environmental pollution caused by additional travel routes are also significant - according to the IHK, it corresponds to eight rounds of earth a year .
Companies would already be considering moving or giving up their apprenticeships. The first feedback of this kind was received by the IHK. Professions such as retailers or office management are particularly affected, where there are enough capacities at both school locations. The relocation also endangers the range of manual training courses in Darmstadt.
Demand: Moratorium and joint regional planning
The BBA calls for an immediate moratorium for the current plans as well as a differentiated view of the job profiles and places of origin of the trainees. The city and district would have to new guest student agreements that continue to enable people from the western district close to home.
In the long term, the Vocational Training Committee is in favor of coordinating vocational school planning. Only through jointly coordinated vocational school development plans of all school authorities in the region could a sustainable, specialized network of powerful locations. The aim is to combine specialist class protection, cost efficiency and high acceptance among companies and trainees.
The BBA of the IHK Darmstadt sees itself as a legally anchored body for quality assurance vocational training in southern Hesse. Employer and employee representatives ask the city and the district to take their responsibility towards dual training in the region seriously and to redesign the school regulations in the sense of the training companies.
