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© Handwerkskammer Frankfurt-Rhein-Main, Bockenheimer Landstr. 21, 60325 Frankfurt a. Main

The Skilled Crafts Sector

FICCI Global Skills Summit 2011

Heike Hoeher-Crohn Frankfurt Rhein Main Chamber of Skilled Crafts

15 September 2011Responsibilities of the German Chambers of Skilled Crafts in Vocational Education & Training - Conclusions for the Formation of SSCs in India

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8. The Skilled Crafts Sector


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The Skilled Crafts Sector

A wide-ranging field of economic activities in Germany:

• goods and services for private households and enterprises in all sectors

• independent economic sector separate from industry and commerce

• not defined by the number of employees or by turnover, but by belonging to one of the skilled craft trades as laid out in the Crafts Act


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Organisation of the German Skilled Crafts

Some facts and statistics* on

the skilled craft sector

962.000 skilled crafts enterprises

27 % of all German businesses

4.8 million employees in the skilled crafts sector

12 % of the total labour force

491 billion EURO (incl. VAT) turn-over

8 % of total gross value added

483.000 apprentices

30 % of all apprentices

74 % of all skilled crafts businesses have less then 10 employees

*according to ZDH published data


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The Crafts Act - “Handwerksordnung”

94 trades - 7 groups:

1. building and finishing (e.g. bricklayers, painters and lacquers)

2. metals and electricity (e.g. car mechatronics and electrical installers)

3. wood (e.g. joiners, parquetry layers)

4. clothing, textiles an leather (e.g. tailors, shoemakers, interior decorators)

5. foodstuffs (e.g. bakers, butchers, millers)

6. healthy, body care, chemicals and cleaning (e.g. opticians, hairdressers, building cleaners)

7. glass, paper, ceramics and others (e.g. glassers, printers, violin makers)


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The German Confederation of Skilled Crafts

German Confederation of Chambers of Skilled

Crafts Federal Level

Association of Skilled Crafts Confederations

Economic Institutions and other Stakeholders

15 Regional Chamber Associations

54 Chamber of Skilled Crafts

300 Local Councils of Skilled

Crafts

14 Federal State Skilled Crafts Representations

Federal State Level

District Level

Local Level

5462 Guilds of Skilled Crafts

962.000 Businesses

(all Annexes) with ca. 4,8 Mio.

Employees

36 National Skilled Crafts Confederations

14 Regional Confederations of Federal State Guilds

Associations

245 Federal State Guilds Associations

Membership

Surveillance of Legal Aspects


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9. Frankfurt Rhein-Main Chamber of Skilled Crafts


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Frankfurt Rhein-Main Chamber of Skilled Crafts:

Frankfurt

Technical-Training-Centre Frankfurt

Technical-Training-Centre Weiterstadt


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Frankfurt Rhein-Main Chamber of Skilled Crafts


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Handwerkskammer Rhein-Main

Chamber of Skilled Crafts Rhine-Main

30.000 Members/Enterprises 165.000 Employees

11.000 Apprentices 150 Guilds of Skilled crafts

Annual Turnover: 12,10 Billion EURO / 720 Billion Rupees

8 Local Councils of Skilled Crafts


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Structure of the self-governing chamber:

30,000 COMPANIES in the Rhein-Main region

22 employees44 employers

GENERAL ASSEMBLY: 66 members

BOARD

President(entrepreneur) VP VP

15 members

Director

200 staff

Vocational T

raining committ

ee

Further C

ommittees

elect every 5 years

elect every 5 yearselect

elect

More information in english (download):

http://www.hwk-rhein-main.de/de/6/uber-uns.html


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Service and Organisation

Commercial policy

Legal department

Inner administration

Finances

Public relations

Business management

Vocational Training Centres

The Chamber of Skilled Crafts:


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International Projects of the Chamber of Skilled Crafts Rhine-Main

Ethiopia

Italy

Vietnam

Morrocco

Turkey


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Contact 1:

Heike Hoeher-Crohn

Frankfurt-Rhein-Main Chamber of Skilled Crafts

Bockenheimer Landstr. 21

D-60325 Frankfurt am Main

+49 69 97172-204 (Tel.)

+49 69 97172-5204 (Fax)

[email protected]

www.hwk-rhein-main.de

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