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BASF establishes new service centre in Berlin
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The world's largest chemicals Group BASF will centralise the administrative activities of its European locations in Berlin at what it calls a Shared Service Centre, and in so doing will create between 500 and 600 new jobs.
In future, the Centre will provide services for the Group's Financial and Accounting Divisions, as well as standardised personnel services that are currently dealt with in more than 100 European BASF companies. The corresponding jobs will be lost there.This means that Berlin has seen off the competition from cities such as Bratislava in Slovakia or Krakow in Poland, which BASF had also examined as alternatives. According to Hans Christian Hansen, the head of personnel at BASF, although no cost optimum had been achieved with the Berlin location, the decision was justifiable.
Eggert Voscherau, deputy Board Chairman of BASF added that "we don't have to squeeze everything out of the last penny", when the plans for the Service Centre in Berlin were unveiled. BASF is not receiving any subsidies for the Centre BASF.
"We consciously chose the German location, because this is where we found an economical and flexible solution", Hansen concluded. He calculated that EUR20 million could be saved annually. The investment sum for the new Centre is between EUR50 million and EUR60 million.
The world's largest BASF site in Ludwigshafen will not be incorporated into the Service Centre in Berlin. Since the beginning of the year, Ludwigshafen has had its own Service Centre dealing with personnel matters.
According to Hansen, the collective agreement concluded with the Mining, Chemicals and Energy Union (IGBCE) makes BASF internationally competitive in terms of the services at the Berlin location. The "customised" collective agreement for the Service Centre above all regulates the payment.
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