Barbara Dürk
Barbara Dürk (28 February 1949,
Life
Barbara Dürk was born in Freiburg im Breisgau and spent her childhood in the
After training as a locksmith, Dürk attended the Academy of Labour at the University of Frankfurt am Main (today: European Academy of Labour). She then worked in the ÖTV-Hesse as trade union secretary for women and environmental protection. At ÖTV, she initiated a campaign to improve the status of typical women's occupations in the public sector. According to some of her fellow campaigners, she did "pioneering work in women's politics" in this context.[4] At the same time, she published alongside other non-lawyers on the concept of equal work, e.g. in 1990 with Wenn das Brunnenmädchen im Heilbad den Hahn zudreht, which preceded the later legal discourse.[5] Additional focal points of her work were the development of alternatives to privatisation, especially for women's jobs, as well as women's interests in the modernisation of public services.[6] She was committed to the implementation of more flexible working time models to enable women in particular to better reconcile working life and family.[7]
From 1993, Dürk worked as a management consultant. Together with Karin Kraus, she founded the "Büro für neue Zeitpraxis" institute to further develop
In collaboration with the trade unionist Renate Sternatz, Barbara Dürk dealt with the practical implementation of the Leistungsentgelts collective agreement for the public service, which was introduced across the board in 2005. Dürk and Sternatz described for employees, staff councils and company management how performance pay - remuneration based on performance and not on time - can be linked to target agreements and used for the benefit of all those involved.[10] From 2010 to 2012, Dürk and Renate Sternatz carried out a pilot project on demographic change in Germany. This was implemented in a number of municipalities in Germany. Together with employees from various areas of work, she developed models for age-appropriate work.
Dürk died on 20 April 2014.[11]
References
- ^ Vgl. Beschreibung des Aktenbestands Deutscher Frauenrat – Rundschreiben, Pressemitteilungen im Archiv der deutschen Frauenbewegung, online.
- ISSN 0720-0404
- ^ "Beschluss vom 16. November 1993 - 1 BvR 258/86". www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de. Bundesverfassungsgericht. 16 November 1993. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
- ^ Heike Gumpert; Elke Möller; Barbara Stiegler. "Aufwertung macht Geschichte. Die Kampagne der Gewerkschaft ÖTV zur Aufwertung von Frauenarbeit (1990–2001). Ein Beitrag zur aktuellen Diskussion" (PDF). www.fes.de. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. p. 15. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
- ISBN 978-3-86618-787-0
- ISBN 3-89404-369-5
- ^ Barbara Dürk, Karin Kraus (October 2000), "Arbeitszeitgestaltung im Interesse von Frauen", Der Personalrat, no. 10
- ^ Barbara Dürk, Karin Kraus (July 1999), "Das Projekt "Neue Zeitpraxis" zieht nach zwei Jahren Bilanz", Der Personalrat, no. 7/1999
- ^ ""Am Ende will kaum einer zurück"", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, no. 28.11.2001, July 1999
- ^ Barbara Dürk, Renate Sternatz (2007), "Leistungsentgelt – Stichwort: Zielvereinbarungen", Der Personalrat, vol. 24, no. 10, pp. 418–442
- ^ Beate Herzog, Karin Kraus (2014). "Andenken an Barbara Dürk (1949–2014)" (PDF). zeitpolitik.de. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zeitpolitik (DGfZP). p. 25. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-02-23. Retrieved 2019-02-27.