The protection of our employees is our top priority
Whistleblower system
Our Code of Conduct – our Values
Rieker Corporate Culture
Fabrics
Fabrics are at the heart of what we do. It’s all about access: to the right quality, in the required quantity, at the right price. These are the critical parameters for making sure that you can offer your customers what they want, when they want to buy.
That’s why we made building the right fabric supplier relationships a core competence of ours early on. We treat these partnerships like family so that we can maintain updated physical and digital fabric libraries ahead of every season at all our office locations for you.
They enable us to accurately plan and determine product quality and price early on, in the design phase, before physical sampling. That means:
– Accelerated time to market for you
– Considerably less waste
– Sustainable organic products from the get-go
40 core assembly facilities
50+ fabric mills
10 accessories suppliers
I. How can I submit my hint?
You can submit your hint
-
by email: meldestelle-karl-rieker@zkkh.de
-
by phone: +49 170/57 14 441
-
by mail: Lawyer Mr. Hans-Peter Huber, c/o zkkh, Berliner Straße 157, 10715 Berlin or
-
personally after prior arrangement by phone in Berlin bei c/o zkkh, Berliner Straße 157, 10715 Berlin oder auch in Stuttgart c/o zkkh, Königstraße 21, 70173 Stuttgart
The contact details of the permanent representative are as follows:
Rechtsanwalt Dr. Alexander Kubik,
c/o zkkh, Königstraße 21, 70173 Stuttgart,
E-Mail: meldestelle-karl-rieker@zkkh.de
Mobil: + 49 178 7790 357
Although not required by law, the review and evaluation of anonymous information is ensured. However, due to the lack of the possibility of queries, there are limits to the possibility of clarification.
II. Who can report something?
All employees, but also third parties, for example if they are in professional contact with Karl Rieker GmbH & Co KG as business partners.
III. What kind of information can I provide?
We take your report seriously. Please note that only reports of violations within the meaning of the HinSchG that are related to professional activities can be processed. The internal reporting office is not responsible for reports of solely private misconduct. If the legally required connection is not given, the legal protection for the whistleblower does not apply.
IV. What happens to my report?
We will process your report in accordance with the Whistleblower Protection Act. You will receive a confirmation of receipt from us within 7 days of receiving your report. At the same time, your report will be reviewed internally and, if it falls within the scope of the Act, will then be processed further. In the course of further processing, we will contact you and determine the historical facts. In the next step, we will check whether and which follow-up measures are recommended and should be implemented in order to remedy any infringement.
It is important to us to fully record the possible violation reported by you. It is very important to us to maintain contact with you throughout the rest of the process.
V. How am I protected? What can happen to me?
As a whistleblower within the meaning of the Whistleblower Protection Act, you are fully protected against reprisals in a professional context. On the one hand, the law prohibits all reactions to a report that (would) cause you unjustified professional disadvantages. For example, you may not be denied a promotion or even dismissed based on your report. Under the provisions of the HinSchG, it is assumed that any disadvantages you suffer in your job following a report constitute reprisals against you if you invoke this connection. In any proceedings before the labor court, your employer must then prove that your disadvantage was sufficiently justified and unrelated to your notification. This is known as a reversal of the burden of proof. You are also entitled to compensation in the event of unjustified discrimination.
It is important to note that you are only protected if you have made your report within the meaning of the law, i.e. both your actions and your report fall within the scope of the HinSchG.
Important: According to § 8 of the HinSchG, we are obliged to treat your identity confidentially. As long as you refuse, we will not disclose your name to anyone.
VI. What happens to the person affected by the tip-off?
They are also protected. The presumption of innocence applies to them as it does to every accused person. No one affected by a tip-off may be stigmatized.
VII. What is an internal reporting office?
An internal reporting office (Section 12 (1) HinSchG) is used to report violations that an employee of Karl Rieker GmbH & Co. KG has learned during his or her professional activities or in the run-up to a professional activity and can report or disclose these to the reporting offices provided for under this Act.
Karl Rieker GmbH & Co. KG assures a broad scope of application of the term “employee” and in this way also enables external parties who have a professional relationship with Karl Rieker GmbH & Co.KG Information from former employees or business partners is also possible.
VIII. Are there any other reporting offices?
Yes, the Federal Office of Justice is one of the external reporting offices. Other external reporting offices have been set up, for example at the Federal Office for Financial Services and the Federal Cartel Office. The respective federal states can also set up external reporting offices.
Further information on the external reporting offices and the procedure can be found under the following link. Reference is made to the information provided there:
https://www.bundesjustizamt.de/DE/MeldestelledesBundes/MeldestelledesBundes_node.html
You have the right to choose. You can submit your report directly to an external reporting office instead of the internal reporting office.
However, as an independent ombudsperson with expertise, we hope that you will place your trust in us. This is because the statutory confidentiality requirement (§ 8 HinSchG) obliges us to ensure the confidentiality of your identity. We can also recommend follow-up measures to the management of Karl Rieker GmbH & Co KG and initiate them if necessary. In addition, we know the company from regular information meetings and are very likely to work faster than any authority.
The availability of the external reporting offices:
https://www.bundesjustizamt.de/DE/MeldestelledesBundes/MeldestelledesBundes_node.html
https://www.bafin.de/DE/DieBaFin/Hinweisgeberstelle/hinweisgeberstelle_node.html
https://www.bundeskartellamt.de/DE/Kartellverbot/Hinweise_auf_Verstoesse/Hinweise_node.html;jsessionid=A055955C22CF1ACC77F6851F4E9BE2B7.2_cid509
IX. Who are we?
We are an independent and competent legal reporting office with relevant expertise from Karl Rieker GmbH & Co.
I, lawyer Hans-Peter Huber (c/o zkkh), am the ombudsperson appointed by Karl Rieker GmbH & Co KG. My permanent representative is the lawyer Dr. Alexander Kubik, (c/o zkkh), Königstraße 21, 70173 Stuttgart.
Since 1980, after completing my legal training with the second state examination, I have been continuously entrusted with a wide range of different legal issues. I spent my first three years in the Bavarian Ministry of Justice supervising the public prosecutor's office in the field of terrorism and espionage. I then worked in Munich as a public prosecutor and subsequently as a judge at Munich Regional Court. This work was followed by a secondment to Bonn, the German capital at the time, to represent the interests of the Free State of Bavaria in the Federal Council. On my return to Munich, I took over as head of the Press and Public Relations Department at the Ministry.
After German reunification, I was asked to make my professional knowledge available for the development of the judiciary in the new federal states, so in 1989 I took on the role of the first head of department in the newly founded Ministry of Justice of the Free State of Thuringia. In 1992, I left the civil service and began work as chief editor of the largest German legal publishing house, C.H.BECK, in Munich. In 2000, I followed a call from the auditing company KPMG and took over the position of Chief Legal Counsel of this company in Berlin as a partner. In this role, I was responsible for all legal issues in the area of international cooperation, but also within Germany. Since 2011 I have been working as a freelance lawyer and partner in the law firm zkkh, Zebisch Kiesel Kubik, Huber with offices in Stuttgart and Berlin.
Dr. Alexander Kubik is also a partner in the law firm zkkh. He started working as a lawyer immediately after his second professional examination and focuses on commercial criminal law issues.
X. Further information
Under the link https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/hinschg/BJNR08C0B0023.html
you will find the current Whistleblower Protection Act.U L Hinweisgeberschutzgesetz.
We connect the world of fiber.
Responsible. Capable. On time.
E-mail: meldestelle-karl-rieker@zkkh.de,
Mobile: +49 170/57 14 441
Mail: Lawyer Mr. Hans-Peter Huber, c/o zkkh, Berliner Straße 157, 10715 Berlin or
personally after prior arrangement by phone in Berlin bei c/o zkkh, Berliner Straße 157, 10715 Berlin
Permanent Representative:
Rechtsanwalt Dr. Alexander Kubik,
c/o zkkh, Königstraße 21, 70173 Stuttgart,
E-Mail: meldestelle-karl-rieker@zkkh.de
Mobil: + 49 178 7790 357
You have a hint for us?
Fabrics
Fabrics are at the heart of what we do. It’s all about access: to the right quality, in the required quantity, at the right price. These are the critical parameters for making sure that you can offer your customers what they want, when they want to buy. That’s why we made building the right fabric supplier relationships a core competence of ours early on. We treat these partnerships like family so that we can maintain updated physical and digital fabric libraries ahead of every season at all our office locations for you.
They enable us to accurately plan and determine product quality and price early on, in the design phase, before physical sampling. That means:
-
Accelerated time to market for you
-
Considerably less waste
-
Sustainable organic products from the get-go
40
core assembly facilities
50+
fabric mills
10
accessories suppliers
Our production quality knows no compromises
First things first – sustainably produced, high-quality garments, are very much a reality when you work with us. How we get there has a lot to do with the rigorous quality management systems we have put in place everywhere we operate.
In our labs we conduct extensive tests such as fiber composition checks, fabric weight checks, dry to wet rubbing tests, home laundry tests, and pH value checks. We’re also on the factory floor every day, checking tolerances, seam slippage, along with all other inline and end line inspections – all the way to the packaging of your garments. Every piece that’s on its way to you from us has our blessing.
1,800
annual inline inspections
360
annual final inspections
Our quality knows no compromises
First things first – sustainably produced, high-quality garments, are very much a reality when you work with us. How we get there has a lot to do with the rigorous quality management systems we have put in place everywhere we operate.
In our labs we conduct extensive tests such as fiber composition checks, fabric weight checks, dry to wet rubbing tests, home laundry tests, and pH value checks. We’re also on the factory floor every day, checking tolerances, seam slippage, along with all other inline and end line inspections – all the way to the packaging of your garments.
Every piece that’s on its way to you from us has our blessing.
Annual inspections
1,800
inline inspections
360
final inspections
We connect the world of fiber.
Responsible. Capable. On time.
A whistleblower protection law has been in force in Germany since summer 2023. It is based on a requirement of the European Union and was controversial for a long time.
However, this criticism mainly concerned the high organizational effort that the legislator had written into the draft law in its penchant for bureaucratic perfectionism.
This was a pity, because a good whistleblowing system can very well help a company to avoid dangerous situations or at least recognize them at an early stage before major damage has occurred, damage that can also quickly threaten its economic existence.
Worldwide experience with such systems for reporting suspicious behavior clearly shows a positive effect when both the position of the whistleblower is protected and the employee affected by the report can trust that the presumption of innocence applies to them and that decisions will only be made after an objective and comprehensive clarification of the matter.
Let us now introduce our Karl Rieker GmbH & Co. KG whistleblower system, for which the ombudsman system that has proven itself for SMEs was chosen. I have been appointed as the ombudsman for this and you can contact me with any information.
Welcome to the website of the internal registration office of Karl Rieker GmbH & Co.KG
I. How can I submit my hint?
You can submit your hint
-
by email: meldestelle-karl-rieker@zkkh.de
-
by phone: +49 170/57 14 441
-
by mail: Lawyer Mr. Hans-Peter Huber, c/o zkkh, Berliner Straße 157, 10715 Berlin or
-
personally after prior arrangement by phone in Berlin bei c/o zkkh, Berliner Straße 157, 10715 Berlin oder auch in Stuttgart c/o zkkh, Königstraße 21, 70173 Stuttgart
The contact details of the permanent representative are as follows:
Rechtsanwalt Dr. Alexander Kubik,
c/o zkkh, Königstraße 21, 70173 Stuttgart,
E-Mail: meldestelle-karl-rieker@zkkh.de
Mobil: + 49 178 7790 357
Although not required by law, the review and evaluation of anonymous information is ensured. However, due to the lack of the possibility of queries, there are limits to the possibility of clarification.
II. Who can report something?
All employees, but also third parties, for example if they are in professional contact with Karl Rieker GmbH & Co KG as business partners.
III. What kind of information can I provide?
We take your report seriously. Please note that only reports of violations within the meaning of the HinSchG that are related to professional activities can be processed. The internal reporting office is not responsible for reports of solely private misconduct. If the legally required connection is not given, the legal protection for the whistleblower does not apply.
IV. What happens to my report?
We will process your report in accordance with the Whistleblower Protection Act. You will receive a confirmation of receipt from us within 7 days of receiving your report. At the same time, your report will be reviewed internally and, if it falls within the scope of the Act, will then be processed further. In the course of further processing, we will contact you and determine the historical facts. In the next step, we will check whether and which follow-up measures are recommended and should be implemented in order to remedy any infringement.
It is important to us to fully record the possible violation reported by you. It is very important to us to maintain contact with you throughout the rest of the process.
V. How am I protected? What can happen to me?
As a whistleblower within the meaning of the Whistleblower Protection Act, you are fully protected against reprisals in a professional context. On the one hand, the law prohibits all reactions to a report that (would) cause you unjustified professional disadvantages. For example, you may not be denied a promotion or even dismissed based on your report. Under the provisions of the HinSchG, it is assumed that any disadvantages you suffer in your job following a report constitute reprisals against you if you invoke this connection. In any proceedings before the labor court, your employer must then prove that your disadvantage was sufficiently justified and unrelated to your notification. This is known as a reversal of the burden of proof. You are also entitled to compensation in the event of unjustified discrimination.
It is important to note that you are only protected if you have made your report within the meaning of the law, i.e. both your actions and your report fall within the scope of the HinSchG.
Important: According to § 8 of the HinSchG, we are obliged to treat your identity confidentially. As long as you refuse, we will not disclose your name to anyone.
VI. What happens to the person affected by the tip-off?
They are also protected. The presumption of innocence applies to them as it does to every accused person. No one affected by a tip-off may be stigmatized.
VII. What is an internal reporting office?
An internal reporting office (Section 12 (1) HinSchG) is used to report violations that an employee of Karl Rieker GmbH & Co. KG has learned during his or her professional activities or in the run-up to a professional activity and can report or disclose these to the reporting offices provided for under this Act.
Karl Rieker GmbH & Co. KG assures a broad scope of application of the term “employee” and in this way also enables external parties who have a professional relationship with Karl Rieker GmbH & Co.KG Information from former employees or business partners is also possible.
VIII. Are there any other reporting offices?
Yes, the Federal Office of Justice is one of the external reporting offices. Other external reporting offices have been set up, for example at the Federal Office for Financial Services and the Federal Cartel Office. The respective federal states can also set up external reporting offices.
Further information on the external reporting offices and the procedure can be found under the following link. Reference is made to the information provided there:
https://www.bundesjustizamt.de/DE/Meldestelledes
Bundes/MeldestelledesBundes_node.html
You have the right to choose. You can submit your report directly to an external reporting office instead of the internal reporting office.
However, as an independent ombudsperson with expertise, we hope that you will place your trust in us. This is because the statutory confidentiality requirement (§ 8 HinSchG) obliges us to ensure the confidentiality of your identity. We can also recommend follow-up measures to the management of Karl Rieker GmbH & Co KG and initiate them if necessary. In addition, we know the company from regular information meetings and are very likely to work faster than any authority.
The availability of the external reporting offices:
https://www.bundesjustizamt.de/DE/
MeldestelledesBundes/MeldestelledesBundes_node.html
https://www.bafin.de/DE/DieBaFin/
Hinweisgeberstelle/hinweisgeberstelle_node.html
https://www.bundeskartellamt.de/DE/
Kartellverbot/Hinweise_auf_Verstoesse/
Hinweise_node.html;jsessionid=
A055955C22CF1ACC77F6851F4E9BE2B7.2_cid509
IX. Who are we?
We are an independent and competent legal reporting office with relevant expertise from Karl Rieker GmbH & Co.
I, lawyer Hans-Peter Huber (c/o zkkh), am the ombudsperson appointed by Karl Rieker GmbH & Co KG. My permanent representative is the lawyer Dr. Alexander Kubik, (c/o zkkh), Königstraße 21, 70173 Stuttgart.
Since 1980, after completing my legal training with the second state examination, I have been continuously entrusted with a wide range of different legal issues. I spent my first three years in the Bavarian Ministry of Justice supervising the public prosecutor's office in the field of terrorism and espionage. I then worked in Munich as a public prosecutor and subsequently as a judge at Munich Regional Court. This work was followed by a secondment to Bonn, the German capital at the time, to represent the interests of the Free State of Bavaria in the Federal Council. On my return to Munich, I took over as head of the Press and Public Relations Department at the Ministry.
After German reunification, I was asked to make my professional knowledge available for the development of the judiciary in the new federal states, so in 1989 I took on the role of the first head of department in the newly founded Ministry of Justice of the Free State of Thuringia. In 1992, I left the civil service and began work as chief editor of the largest German legal publishing house, C.H.BECK, in Munich. In 2000, I followed a call from the auditing company KPMG and took over the position of Chief Legal Counsel of this company in Berlin as a partner. In this role, I was responsible for all legal issues in the area of international cooperation, but also within Germany. Since 2011 I have been working as a freelance lawyer and partner in the law firm zkkh, Zebisch Kiesel Kubik, Huber with offices in Stuttgart and Berlin.
Dr. Alexander Kubik is also a partner in the law firm zkkh. He started working as a lawyer immediately after his second professional examination and focuses on commercial criminal law issues.
X. Further information
Under the link https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/hinschg/BJNR08C0B0023.html
you will find the current Whistleblower Protection Act.U L Hinweisgeberschutzgesetz.