On 11 May 2001, a first works council [1] was elected at the Berlin office of Germany's flagship multimedia design agency Pixelpark AG, which is a subsidiary of the German-based media corporation Bertelsmann. The new works council, consisting of nine members, has been elected for a five-year period
In a third round of talks on 22 May 2001, the Unified Service Sector Union (Vereinigte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft, ver.di) (DE0104220F [1]) and the Employers' Association for Private Banking (Arbeitgeberverband des privaten Bankgewerbes) concluded a new collective agreement for the 470,000
On 5 April 2001, the Federation of Gay Managers (Völkinger Kreis (VK) – Bundesverband Gay Manager [1]) awarded its "Max Spohr Prize" to the automobile manufacturer Ford Deutschland, in recognition of the company's good "diversity management". [1] http://www.vk-online.de
On 25 April 2001, the German government presented a report entitled /Living conditions in Germany – the first governmental report on poverty and wealth/ (Lebenslagen in Deutschland – Der erste Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht der Bundesregierung [1]). In presenting this report, the government fulfilled
On 24 April 2001, the newly-created Unified Service Sector Union (Vereinigte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft, ver.di) (DE0104220F [1]) concluded an agreement with the temporary employment agency Randstad Deutschland GmbH on pay increases for about 21,000 of the latter's employees working in various
During winter 2000, the IG Metall metalworkers' trade union launched a "debate on the future" (Zukunftsdebatte [1]), aimed at developing new perspectives and strategies for the union. It is foreseen that the debate will last for two years and that its outcomes will be translated into practice at the
On 24 March 2001, the newly created Unified Service Sector Union (Vereinigte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft, Ver.di) and Lufthansa AG concluded new collective agreements for the airline company's 55,000 cabin and ground staff. In January 2001, the German White-Collar Workers' Union (Deutsche
On 19-21 March 2001, five trade unions merged to create the Unified Service Sector Union (Vereinigte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft, ver.di) at a founding congress [1] held in Berlin. The unions involved were: [1] http://www.verdi-net.de/kongress/index.php3
On 26 January 2001, the German parliament (Bundestag) approved a new pension scheme, covering the arrangements relating to the future level of state pensions and the amount of state pension contributions. This represented decisive progress for the government's pension reform, which has been a
Since the most recent general election in September 1998, the German federal government has been composed of a "red-green" coalition comprising the Social Democratic Party (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, SPD) and Alliance 90/The Greens (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen). The coalition parties were