Company Integration Management (BEM)

If you have been unfit for work for more than six weeks without interruption or repeatedly within a year, your employer should, with your consent and involvement, determine with the relevant representative body, and in the case of severely disabled persons also with the representative body for severely disabled persons, how you can resume work without further disruption and what options exist to prevent future illnesses. The employer is obliged to provide comprehensive information in advance regarding the purpose of the BEM and the data it collects, processes and stores for this purpose. If your employer terminates your employment without carrying out or at least offering to carry out a BEM due to illness, you should inform the Termination must be checked. The Termination may be ineffective. The Termination is always the last resort (so-called ultima ratio). However, the purpose of the BEM is precisely to find out whether milder means can be used instead of the Termination are available.