Around 9,500 employees in the state will retire within the next 15 years. This gap is only partially compensated for by subsequent generations. Frequent staff changes also demand the offices in the country. “Instruments for overcoming the challenges are in place, but there is room for improvement,” explained LRH director Friedrich Pammer. It is not possible to assess whether additional incentives to the country’s salary system such as parental leave or flexible working hours are sufficient to remain competitive on the labor market.
Internal job exchange not very successful
Another key success factor is how quickly gaps in staffing positions – currently an average of 63 calendar days – can be closed. In the case of the state, a distinction is made between an internal replacement procedure and an external admission procedure, for each of which a separate department is responsible. This often complicates the successive processes. 40 percent of the internal job exchange procedures remained without applicants; In the other procedures, the quota was two applications, according to the LRH. More flexibility and the choice of the process that promises the greatest chance of success would be required.
OVP club chairman Christian Drfel saw demographic change as a challenge and the LRH report as a good stimulus. As a result of the pandemic, the process of strategic alignment for the coming years in the personnel department has been postponed until next year. Findings from the report would be incorporated strategically.
More and more young people are giving up
FSG personnel representative Renate Heitz (SP) saw a need for action – in view of the increasing number of employees leaving – plus 80 percent from 2016 to 2020. “We will question the exact reasons for this in the control committee,” she said in a press release. The statistics show that the number has risen since LH Thomas Stelzer (VP) took over the personnel department, according to Heitz, most of all among younger people between 30 and 40 years of age. That would further aggravate the personnel gap due to the pending retirement.
Source From: Nachrichten
