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EnBW increases weekly working hours: 38 hours in focus from 2026!
EnBW is increasing weekly working hours to 38 hours, while a new collective agreement in the energy industry will bring more pay for 17,000 employees.
EnBW increases weekly working hours: 38 hours in focus from 2026!
From 2026, EnBW will return to weekly working hours of 38 hours, thus ending a special path taken in 2011, which included a temporary reduction to 36 hours. This decision was considered necessary by Colette Rückert-Hennen, EnBW's human resources director, in order to deploy employees to convert the energy system. EnBW, which employs around 30,400 people and supplies around 5.5 million customers, is facing a changing market and is planning massive gross investments of up to 50 billion euros in the climate-neutral transformation of the energy system from 2024 to 2030.
The investments should flow particularly into networks, renewable energies and hydrogen technologies. At the same time, protection against dismissal for employees will continue until the end of 2030. An important aspect of this change is the newly negotiated tariff regulations in the Baden-Württemberg energy industry, which provide for an adjustment of collective wages by 3.73 percent.
New collective agreement and salary increases
As part of a new collective agreement that applies to EnBW and around 20 other companies in the private energy industry in Baden-Württemberg, a wage increase of 2.1 percent was agreed retroactively from the beginning of March for the first 14 months. For the following 10 months, employees will receive an additional salary increase of 1.6 percent as well as a one-off payment of between 350 and 700 euros. These agreements affect around 17,000 employees who had to fight hard for better conditions under the pressure of warning strikes on Monday morning.
The Verdi union had previously demanded a salary increase of 5 percent over a period of one year, but the result of the new collective agreement was described by the employers' association as acceptable for both sides. The collective agreement runs for two years and thus ensures that employees can continue to benefit from stable income conditions in the coming years.