Employees

You can also apply for your company ID number by submitting a PDF form to the German Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit).

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Registering employees in the social security system
If you are hiring employees, you must register them in the social security system at the beginning of employment.
 This registration covers:
• health insurance,
• long-term care insurance,
• old-age pension insurance, and
• unemployment insurance.
You can find information related to these topics in the Hessen Info Service (Verwaltungsportal Hessen).

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Is your company planning to provide trainee positions, and do you want to find out about necessary requirements? The German Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit) website outlines all the important details about the requirements, different types of training and selection of candidates.

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If you are an employer (lessor) and want to lease your employees as manpower to third parties during the course of their employment, you need to have permission to do so. You can find information related to these topics in the Hessen Info Service (Hessen-Finder).

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The regulation that covers work permits for foreign employees (Arbeitsgenehmigungsverordnung - ArGV) regulates the conditions for work permits and working rights.

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Support for professional development
The German Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit) website provides information about the qualification of employees and prerequisites for receiving grants and benefits in the professional development field.

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The GESUNDHEITSFÖRDERUNG (PROMOTING HEALTH) infoline provides answers to questions concerning the areas in which promoting health can bring benefits, the problems that it can solve and the tools that are available to promote health at work.

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Sozialnetz Hessen (the Hessen Social Network) provides a wide range of information and advisory services about different topics, such as mobbing and burn-outs, employee reintegration management, occupational health and safety, maternity leave, youth employment protection, to name but a few.

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The Federal Ministry of Health (Bundesministerium für Gesundheit) website dedicated to promoting health in the workplace provides best-practice examples, overviews of different projects and a guide to the first steps for introducing health-promoting initiatives in the workplace.

This information portal, run by the German Employment Agency, lists all the officially recognised vocational professions in Germany. It contains a wealth of information, including short job descriptions and job scopes, common job titles, basic legal principals and further reading.

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The Federal Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs (Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales – BMAS) provides employers with useful information about the labour market, labour legislation and occupational health and safety, as well as issues such as insurance and financial security.

The Federal Institute for Occupational Health and Safety (Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin – BAuA) carries out research and development in the field of occupational health and safety. It encourages knowledge-sharing, provides policy advice and carries out public administrative tasks in the fields of hazardous substance legislation, product safety and the health data archives.

sv.net provides free, GKV-certified products and services to help employers manually prepare and digitally transfer such items as social security declarations, contribution statements, applications to receive social benefits, etc. to the German social security/benefits system and bodies such as professional retirement institutions, for example.

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KURSNET is a portal for professional training and development, run by the German Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit). You can look for available training corresponding to your job, or training offered in your area, and filter your findings.

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The professional development information system, Weiterbildungs-Informations-System, provides details of current vocational training opportunities. it also provides a seminar search machine, a catalogue of trainers and much more.

(website only available in German)