
Steffen Kampeter, Chief Executive Officer
Employers implement their respective protective measures professionally and consistently . Since the Corona pandemic, safety and health in the workplace have become one of the most important factors for the business viability of companies.


Issue 4/23:
Dare more sustainability & social progress
Instead of more sustainability and social progress, bureaucracy and control madness are being promoted, warns BDA Chief Executive Steffen Kampeter in the Viewpoint of the current issue. School quality urgently needs to be improved. This is the topic of the week. There is also a guest article by Ingrid Hofmann that is well worth reading: She calls for more appreciation for companies.

Mission
The BDA ensures that the social partnership anchored in the Basic Law succeeds and that fair working conditions are guaranteed in our country.

Vision
Our goal is to operate in such a way that future generations can also find sufficient employment and create prosperity.

Values
The social market economy underlies our actions and is based on freedom, responsibility, subsidiarity and solidarity.

The Voice of German Business in Brussels
Strong employer organisations
Members of the BDA are 14 interdisciplinary regional associations and 48 federal umbrella associations of employers from the fields of industry, trade, finance, transport, crafts, services and agriculture. Around 1 million companies with approx. 30.5 million employees are affiliated to them directly or indirectly via their member associations.
Federal top-level associations
National Associations