Introduction Company profile <strong>and</strong> strategyService portfolio Communication <strong>and</strong> social responsibilityRemuneration <strong>and</strong> codeterminationPersonnel costs <strong>and</strong> social benefitsOur employees are remunerated according to theirqualifications <strong>and</strong> their performance. In 2011, the averagesalary of a Flughafen München GmbH employeewas €41,868 – significantly more than the nationwideaverage in the transport <strong>and</strong> logistics industry. Thisfigure includes all pay-scale <strong>and</strong> managerial employees,as well as part-time <strong>and</strong> marginally employedstaff.The FMG Group’s overall HR expense in 2011 totaled€308.1 million, of which Flughafen München GmbHaccounted for €212.9 million. The latter figure comprises€168.5 million in wages, salaries, <strong>and</strong> travel <strong>and</strong>meal subsidies, plus €44.4 million in social securitylevies <strong>and</strong> retirement <strong>and</strong> support provisions.In addition to their monthly wages <strong>and</strong> salaries, allFlug hafen München GmbH employees – full <strong>and</strong> parttime– receive pay-scale <strong>and</strong> non-pay-scale supplementarybenefits, such as annual bonuses, a profitshare, a company pension, <strong>and</strong> subsidies for meals<strong>and</strong> travel.A culture of codeterminationUnder the provisions of the Works Constitution Act, aGerman law governing industrial relations in corporations,Flughafen München GmbH’s workforce enjoysa variety of codetermination rights.The works council currently comprises 27 members<strong>and</strong> is re-elected every four years. Its task is to representthe interests of FMG employees <strong>and</strong> to overseethe fulfillment of collective pay-scale agreements,statutory regulations <strong>and</strong> requirements, <strong>and</strong> internalcompany agreements. The latter include agreementscovering corporate health management, addiction pre -vention, the integration of people with disabilities (orequivalent status), corporate integration management,<strong>and</strong> a variety of working time models. The companyis required to notify the works council in detail <strong>and</strong> ingood time about any intended structural changes soas to enable optimum solutions to be found, both forthe company <strong>and</strong> for employees.A voice for traineesThe company has a youth <strong>and</strong> trainee council whoserole is to represent the interests of young people <strong>and</strong>vocational trainees. Executive management is requiredto involve the council in connection with anyissues pertaining to young employees <strong>and</strong> trainees.The council is represented on the works council,where it has a veto right on youth issues to allow de -cisions to be deferred pending further discussion. Itis re-elected once every two years <strong>and</strong> currently comprisesseven members. Employees aged 25 years <strong>and</strong>under can st<strong>and</strong> for election, <strong>and</strong> anyone currently invocational training is entitled to vote.Opportunities for involvementAt FMG, we encourage our people not just to take ona role in statutory <strong>and</strong> company bodies like the workscouncil, the supervisory board, the youth <strong>and</strong> traineecouncil, the council for employees with disabilities,<strong>and</strong> the industrial health <strong>and</strong> safety council, but alsoto actively support other bodies <strong>and</strong> initiatives.There is plenty of scope for involvement – in everythingfrom our careers <strong>and</strong> family project, the women’sworking group at FMG <strong>and</strong> the company sportsclub to the company health management workinggroup, the company’s ideas management workinggroup <strong>and</strong> volunteering initiatives like FlughafenvereinMünchen e.V.90
Workforce <strong>and</strong> work environmentP Human resources strategyP Training <strong>and</strong> HR developmentP DiversityP Work-life balance <strong>and</strong> health protectionq Remuneration <strong>and</strong> codeterminationEnvironmental <strong>and</strong> climate protectionFinancial reviewSustainable developmentProtecting jobsTo comply with a 1996 EU directive requiring that thirdpartyground services providers be allowed to operateat airports in the European Union, we had to admit acompeting operator to Munich Airport. Because thisoperator paid its employees lower wages <strong>and</strong> wasthus able to charge lower rates than Flughafen MünchenGmbH for ground h<strong>and</strong>ling services, we facedthe risk of having to shed jobs in this sector at sometime in the future.Our first step to counter this risk was to form a newFMG subsidiary, MUC Ground Services (MGS). However,to secure the renewal of ground h<strong>and</strong>ling contractswith carriers – including Lufthansa, our biggestcustomer – management had to ask the workforce tomake sacrifices on more than one occasion in recentyears, both in terms of pay <strong>and</strong> the way their work wasorganized. In July 2011, AeroGround, a wholly ownedFMG subsidiary, began providing ground h<strong>and</strong>lingser vices at Munich Airport. This company employsformer FMG workers (under the same contracts) <strong>and</strong>former MGS workers.Working closely with the labor unions <strong>and</strong> the workscouncil, we have managed to find solutions that willenable us to secure jobs in this segment at least until2016. These solutions include collective labor agreements,special working time arrangements aimed ateasing the burden on employees, <strong>and</strong> greater use ofpart-time workers to support the core workforce atpeak times. All this has enabled the FMG Group toprotect jobs in ground h<strong>and</strong>ling while continuing tooffer airlines <strong>and</strong> their passengers a reliable service.Now, though, parts of the European Commission <strong>and</strong>a small number of airlines are calling for the marketto be opened up still further. This is something thatFMG, its works council, <strong>and</strong> policymakers in Berlin<strong>and</strong> Brussels all firmly reject. An additional groundh<strong>and</strong>ling operator at Munich Airport would make itimpossible for AeroGround to break even, a situationthat would clearly have negative consequences forthe workforce <strong>and</strong> for job security.91