Balance between family

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Balance between family professional
lifeCompany kindergarten Why, what for?
Seminar on gender aspects of company
restructuring

• Manuela Martin, Works Council
• SOLVAY GmbH

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SOLVAY INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE in more than 50
countries with more than 400 sites and approx.
29,000 employeesSales EUR 8.6 billion in 2005
Europe 56
Asia-Pacific7
The Americas34
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MAJOR MARKETS
Pharma Chemicals
Plastics
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Deficits in Child Care in Germany
Opening and day-care hours The list of deficits
from parents point of view
Opening hours not long or flexible enough
Too few offers in emergency situations
Too few full-day child care offers
All in all, corresponding to needs
Upper bar Agreement of working single
parents Lower bar Agreement in total
Surveyed 1,001 mothers and fathers with children
between 0 and 10 years old in household
March 2005
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Employees by age Hanover site
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Female Employees With Small Children

• Comparison Plants in BE, DE, FR, NL
• in Hanover
• Higher proportion of women (gt 50)
• Lower employment rate
• Longer maternity leave
• Hardly any full-time work

Disadvantages in the conciliation of Professional
Private Life
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Initiative of the works council

• Need from the employees
• Create a group with employees
• Design a strategy
• Diskussion with management

No
After ten years o.k.
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Implementation

• 1st Quarter 2003
• Survey of need
• Conception/search for suitable operator
• Financing
• Construction application
• 2nd Quarter 2003
• Contract with operator
• Negotiations with authorities
• 3rd Quarter 2003
• Conversion activities (preparation of building
  and grounds)
• Plant agreement
• 4th Quarter 2003
• Conversion activities/Fixtures and furnishings
• Operation permit
• OPENING (12.12.2003)

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SolKids Child Day Care Center

• Open since December 2003
• A mixed age group
• For 25 3 children (Pilot project of
  place-sharing)
• For children from 1-6 years
• Opening hours 730 1730
• Flexible care hours
• Closed 10 days /year
• Support in emergency situation
• Booking of additional hours

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Advantages for Parents

• Fast return from maternity leave possible
• Care hours are adapted to the working hours
• No double travel times (workplace and
  kindergarten)
• In case of emergency, immediately close to child
• Flexible booking of hours
• Inner peace, less stress
• Parent networks

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Extension 2006

• Expansion into childrens house (opened March
  2006)
• Opening of the extended inside and outside areas
• With two groups since 1 March 2006
• 15 Nursery places (1 3 years old)
• 21 3 places (2 6 years old)
• 5 Governesses 3 Child-care nurses

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Integration in the Company

• SolKids Committee
• questions of the Child Day-Care Center
• 2 Works Council and 2 company representatives
  Acceptance procedure and issuing of places
• Contributions, pedagogical concept
• Company Agreement, Care Ordinance

• Parents Committee

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Family-Conscious Personnel Policy

• Solvay offers
• Flexitime regulations without
• core times
• Part-time agreements
• Tele-workplaces
• Combined Tele/Office workplaces
• Child day care centers near the
• company