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Note 10. Personnel expenses

The following table shows the composition of personnel expenses:

Personnel expenses
EUR '000

 

2021

2020

Wages and salaries

351,119

264,3811

Expenses for severance payments and gratuity

5,253

7,1951

Retirement benefit expenses

8,224

7,3421

Statutory social security expenses

81,313

69,405

Other employee-related costs

6,708

5,287

Total

452,617

353,609

1)

Reclassification of capitalized borrowing costs, net interest from defined benefit plans and commitment fees from EBIT/EBITDA to the financial result (see note 2).

In the 2021 financial year, government grants of EUR 245 thousand (2020: EUR 13,288 thousand) in connection with short-term work assistance of Austria related to COVID-19 were offset against personnel expenses and recognized in profit or loss. The main condition for short-time working assistance is the temporary reduction of working hours of certain employees. In the 2021 financial year, the Lenzing Group utilized such grants from January to March (2020: May to December).

The number of employees in the Lenzing Group is as follows:

Number of employees (headcount)

 

2021

2020

Average

7,614

7,156

As at 31/12

7,958

7,358

The following table shows the number of employees in Lenzing AG and the Austrian subsidiaries of the Lenzing Group:

Average number of employees in Austria (headcount)

 

2021

2020

Hourly workers

1,912

1,896

Salaried employees

1,514

1,423

Total

3,426

3,319

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