DGAP-Media / 07.09.2016 / 09:09 NORMA Group assists its employees with nursing relatives Maintal, Germany, September 7, 2016 - NORMA Group, a global market leader in engineered joining technology, has signed the Charta Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Pflege (Charter on Reconciling Work and Care). On September 6, 2016, the Hessian Minister of Social Affairs and Integration, Stefan Grüttner, handed over the instrument of accession at the Frankfurt Haus der Wirtschaft. "We are pleased that NORMA Group offers its employees help in reconciling their professions with caring for relatives," said Stefan Grüttner in welcoming NORMA Group as a new member. The Hessian initiative involving politics and business is unique in Germany. Some 130 companies that are committed to a nursing-sensitive personnel policy have already signed the Charter. "The employers thus send a clear signal that they want to contribute to eliminating the taboo surrounding care and communicate openly on the topic inside their companies," Minister Grüttner said. "By signing the Charter, we acknowledge that caregivers assume a special responsibility. As an employer, we want to offer our employees support in dealing with this particular situation and are thus also responding to changing demands that accompany demographic change. This is the only way we will be able to attract professionals that our company needs and employ them over the long term," said Werner Deggim, CEO of NORMA Group. Several employees of NORMA Group were trained to become Company Care Guides. They are there to assist colleagues who care for family members as contacts. Advice is given confidentially, quickly and in an informal manner. The Care Guides provide an overview of the most important steps in caring for others and provide addresses of the relevant contact points both inside and outside the company. "Beruf und Pflege vereinbaren" (Reconciling Work and Care) is an initiative of the Hessian Ministry of Social Affairs and Integration, the AOK - The health insurance company in Hesse, berufundfamilie Service GmbH and the Training Institute of the Hessian Economy. Its goal is for the relatives of those in need of care in Hesse to better reconcile work and care. Among other aspects, company Care Guides are trained. The initiative is supported by the Hessian Ministry of Social Affairs and Integration and the European Social Fund. Additional information on the company is available on www.normagroup.com. Press photos are available from our platform on www.normagroup.com/images. Contact NORMA Group SE Daphne Recker Group Communications E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +49 (0)6181 - 6102 743 About NORMA Group NORMA Group is a global market leader in engineered joining technology. The company manufactures a wide range of innovative connecting solutions and water management technology offering more than 35,000 products to customers in 100 countries with around 6,500 employees. NORMA Group helps its customers and business partners to react to global challenges such as climate change and increasing scarcity of resources. NORMA Group joining products can be found in vehicles and trains, ships and aircraft, buildings and water management as well as in applications for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. The company generated sales of around EUR 890 million in 2015. NORMA Group operates a global network of 22 production facilities as well as numerous sales and distribution sites across Europe, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific. NORMA Group has its headquarters in Maintal, Germany. NORMA Group SE is listed on the German stock exchange (Prime Standard) and included in the MDAX index. End of Media Release --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: NORMA Group SE Key word(s): Enterprise 07.09.2016 Dissemination of a Press Release, transmitted by DGAP - a service of EQS Group AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. The DGAP Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Archive at www.dgap.de --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Company: NORMA Group SE Edisonstr. 4 63477 Maintal Germany Phone: +49 6181 6102 741 Fax: +49 6181 6102 7641 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.normagroup.com ISIN: DE000A1H8BV3 WKN: A1H8BV Indices: MDAX Listed: Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange End of News DGAP Media --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 499583 07.09.2016