Wiener Linien wants to hire about 900 employees this year. This is partly due to a large retirement wave by the baby boom generation, which will ensure 600 retirements this year. On the other hand, they want to offer employees more flexible working hours. Pilot testing for a four-day week would start in the fall!
Alexandra Reinagl, General Manager of Wiener Linien, announced that special attention should be paid to the proportion of women when recruiting new employees. When it comes to driving services, for example, it is still about ten percent behind. However, there will be no women’s quota in this area because it cannot be met.
Break through language barriers
“On the other hand, we are also considering how we can make our working conditions even more attractive, so that we can also appeal to people who do not speak the German language,” Reinagl told APA. Among other things, the Wiener Linien want to bring German language skills to the required level with tutoring among colleagues. “Often the technical understanding and the will is there, but not the language skills,” explains the director of Wiener Linien.
Four-day week without pay cuts
In terms of working hours, they want to be more flexible in the future. In a pilot project, a four-day working week will start in the autumn. In concrete terms, this means a distribution of 37.5 hours per week over four days. As a result, there are no salary cuts for employees.
Due to the division of tasks in the administration, this concept is much simpler than with the driver’s service, because “you can’t imagine that the four-day working week is so classic,” explains the director. Yet they will be pilots in all areas. A total of 300 employees are planned for the pilot project.
Source: Krone
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