End of the year 2014 at FISCHER Licht & Metall

Mühlhausen. At the company meeting on Friday, the chairwoman of the works council of FISCHER Licht & Metall, Manuela Fuchs, congratulated the employees celebrating their anniversaries. 18 employees celebrated a round company anniversary in 2014. At the evening Christmas party in the Spitalstadl in Freystadt, Managing Director Stephan K. Fischer presented certificates and gifts and thanked the jubilarians for their work - first and foremost Oswald Kornprobst, who is taking "retirement at 63" after 50 years with the company, as well as the "40-year-olds" Reiner Kreußel and Günter Koschorrek. With Purchasing Manager Josef Mederer and Technical Manager Roland Plank, two members of the management were also among the honorees this time.

Since the end of 2013, the company has grown from 191 to 210 employees today, including the eight trainees who started an apprenticeship at FISCHER this year. The year 2014 was not always easy from the works council's point of view, said the works council chairwoman, thanking the management for the objective cooperation. Manuela Fuchs emphasized that it had been possible to agree on a gradual increase in annual leave, depending on length of service.

"I also have an anniversary," emphasized Stephan K. Fischer, who has been managing the company for ten years. "2014 was a turbulent year," the CEO noted. "There is brutal competition in the automotive industry," he said. Specifically in relation to VW, he said, this also affected his company. FISCHER no longer produces large series, but only smaller quantities for the industry - "manufactory production," he called it. "The craft is the area with the greatest potential," Stephan K. Fischer said. What drives the company forward, he said, is the development of new products. "The employees have done great things," he praised the employees of the company, where people from ten nations work.

On January 1, 2015, a new industrial safety regulation will come into force. Uwe Rossow, an expert responsible for occupational safety at FISCHER, called on all employees to be more proactive in solving safety problems, such as transporting large pylons. He also urged more discipline in waste separation. This would save costs and could even bring in money, he said. Oliver Berner, trade union secretary of IG Metall in Regensburg, then gave a brief outlook on the 2015 round of collective bargaining, in which the aim is to achieve wage increases and new regulations on partial retirement.

Honored were: Oswald Kornprobst (50 years with the company), Reiner Kreußel and Günter Koschorrek (40 years), Josef Rucker and Eugen Kellner (35 years), Josef Mederer (30 years), Norbert Dimmling, Marlene Ziegelschmidt, Edgar Riek, Andreas Langer, Christian Fuchs and Roland Plank (25 years), Ngoc Qui Nguyen (20 years), Michael Heller, Thomas Staudigl and Wolfgang Thumann (15 years) and Ulrike Hofbeck and Claudia Schmidt (10 years). - Not all of them were present at the celebration in the evening.