Own workforce

HHLA’s own workforce includes the following groups of people: white-collar and technical employees, blue-collar personnel, trainees, salaried employees not subject to any collective wage agreement, management staff, working students and temporary staff who have an active employment contract with HHLA or one of its consolidated companies at the end of the reporting period. The term does not include Executive Board members, managing directors, undergraduate students or interns. External employees are also considered members of the company’s own workforce. At HHLA, these include: temporary agency workers (legal definitions vary from country to country), employees of the general port operations company at the Hamburg terminals (in accordance with the Hamburg General Port Operations Act (GHB Act)) and self-employed individuals who worked at HHLA during the reporting period.