Non-Academic Staff Council

The Non-Academic Staff Council represents the interests of all technical and administrative staff members at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences.  If you would like to contact us, please send an e-mail to PRTUV@hochschule-rhein-waal.de. To contact a single member, please see that member’s profile for all relevant contact information. We look forward to your message!

Office Staff Council

Duties and Responsibilities

The Non-Academic Staff Council represents the interests of pay-scale employees, civil servants and other non-academic or research staff members employed by the university; it does not represent professors, research staff or part-time employees.

In order to effectively fulfill its duties and responsibilities as a representative body, the Non-Academic Staff Council has rights of co-determination, participation and consultation in accordance with the Employee Representation Act of North Rhine-Westphalia (Landesvertretungsgesetz - NRW LPVG NW).

In the spirit of effective and trustful cooperation, the most important duties and responsibilities of the Non-Academic Staff Council include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Monitoring the prevailing laws, regulations, collective wage agreements, service agreements etc. which grant legal rights to employees,
• Receiving employees’ suggestions or complaints and forwarding them to the appropriate contact point,
• Exercising its rights of co-determination, participation, consultation, information inter alia in specific areas relating to employee rights and working conditions, including: collective bargaining (e.g. hiring and grouping); personnel transfer; termination; changes to work contracts; planning, development or changes to the workstation or work organisation; defining the contents and scope of work; changes to job specifications or standard working times; preventing unsafe working conditions and workplace accidents; health promotion and addiction prevention; data protection.