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Staff meeting in Bremen: cancellation of classes causes heated debates!
On September 3, 2025, a staff meeting for teachers will take place in Bremen to discuss critical topics such as canceled lessons and recording working hours.
Staff meeting in Bremen: cancellation of classes causes heated debates!
On September 3, 2025, from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., a staff meeting for all employees at Bremen schools, in mobile services and at the regional advice and support centers (ReBUZ) will take place in Hall 7 on the Bremer Bürgerweide. This meeting will address a major topic: the organization of working hours for teachers. Among other things, a 41-hour week, target hour cuts and the abolition of age reductions are on the agenda buten and within reported.
The staff meeting is already causing a stir: some schools in Bremen have canceled classes for this reason, which is not going down well in the school community. The Bremen Central Parents' Advisory Board (ZEB) is critical of the closures and the loss of emergency care at primary schools. The parent representatives demand that such meetings should take place at a later date in the future in order to avoid the cancellation of lessons and to provide the children with appropriate care. The education authority itself is keeping a low profile and states that the impact on teaching is currently unknown.
Discussion about working time recording
The background to the current unrest lies in the discussion about recording working hours for teachers. On July 15, 2025, the staff council lodged an appeal against a decision by the Bremen Administrative Court. It's about the court's decision from May 2025, which repealed the Senate's right to make final decisions regarding a co-determination procedure for recording working hours in schools Bremen staff council communicates.
A pilot project to digitally record teachers' working hours is scheduled to start in Bremen next year. In the preparation phase, which lasts until July 2026, the necessary legal, organizational and technical foundations will be created. Six schools will take part. From August 2026, teachers will be asked to document their working hours for a whole year using iPads and a special app. Education Senator Sascha Aulepp (SPD) sees this as more than just a project: She hopes that other federal states will join in and emphasizes that a solution must be found that takes into account both the interests of the students and those of the teachers deutsches-schulportal.de reported.
Shaping the future
The focus of the discussion is the challenge of making the working conditions for teachers fair while at the same time meeting the requirements of a modern education system. The education authority is planning discussions with the staff council to clarify future regulations for meetings. It will be exciting to see how the discussion about working hours and thus the framework conditions for teachers will develop.
Meanwhile, parents and students have to cope with the temporary absence of teachers and the resulting losses in teaching. Reliable emergency care for the children should be guaranteed, even if only to a limited extent. But many schools are unable to offer this service, further fueling parents' worries.
The coming weeks will show how the discussion about teachers' working hours and the resulting meetings in Bremen continues and what steps will be taken to overcome the challenges in the education sector.