1. Please coordinate with your HR contact person to ensure that your Friend's assignment with the staffing agency is terminated in a legally clean manner:

• Check whether the employee leasing contract must be terminated before the end of the contract. Observe notice periods if necessary.
• Does a transfer fee have to be paid to the personnel service provider?
  If so, please obtain approval for the transfer fee from BL & Controlling.

2. Is the Friend interested in permanent employment?

3. The Hiring Manager makes the staffing request and obtains the necessary approvals from GF/BL:

• The Hiring Manager fills out the template and sends it to the responsible supervisor (AL, BL). Please consider the salary structure of your team when determining the salary!
• The responsible department head or division manager reviews the request and obtains approval from the management.
• Please note: At PB Germany the request has to be additionally approved by GL, so please send the approved request to HR Controlling to initiate the process.

4. In the last instance, the internalization of the Friend must be presented to the Personnel Committee:

• Please coordinate with your HR supervisor in a timely manner to obtain the PC date and template
• Please note a lead time of at least 2 months

Once all approvals have been received and the modalities of the ANÜ contract have been clarified, the HR support team initiates the following:

• Introduction contract creation
• Contacting the Friend
• Termination of the ANÜ contract with the personnel service provider (Attention: the Friend must also give notice to his employer (personnel service provider)