On 29 May 2002, the Unified Service Sector Union (Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft, ver.di) and the Employers' Association for the Printing and Media Industries (Bundesverband Druck und Medien, BVDM) reached a deal on a new collective agreement covering some 220,000 employees in the printing
On 25 April 2002, approximately, 37,000 female high-school students aged 11 to 15 participated in Germany's second 'Girls' Day'. The initiative is based on a US scheme entitled 'Take our daughters to work day' and seeks to support the interest of young females in working life in general and in high
On 6 May 2002, the German metalworkers' trade union IG Metall called some 50,000 workers out in strike in Baden-Württemberg, the union's 'flagship' district in the south-west of Germany. The strike came after negotiations over a new sector-wide collective agreement for the metalworking industry had
On 21 March 2002, the German-based construction company Philipp Holzmann AG filed for bankruptcy protection in court. The collapse of Germany's second-largest construction company came after several leading banks, among others Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Bank, Commerzbank and HypoVereinsbank, failed to
The current German federal government is a'red-Green' coalition comprising the Social Democratic Party (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, SPD) and Alliance 90/The Greens (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), which came to power after the last general election in September 1998. In 2001, there were four
In January 2002, the Unified Service Sector Union (Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft, ver.di) announced a new plan to support sex industry workers. While it has been estimated that some 400,000 prostitutes work in Germany, offering their services a total of 1.2 million times a day, trade union
On 14 January 2002, the Unified Service Sector Union (Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft, ver.di) and the Employers' Association for the Travel Agencies and Tourism Industry (Arbeitgebervereiningung im Deutschen Reisebüro und Reiseveranstalterverband, DRV-Tarifgemeinschaft) concluded new
On 24 January 2002, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued a judgment which largely upholds the German Law on the Posting of Employees (Arbeitnehmer-Entsendegesetz). Based on this law, provisions of certain collective agreements in the building industry can also be applied to foreign workers and
In a report on occupational safety and health (/Bericht über den Stand von Sicherheit und Gesundheit bei der Arbeit und über das Unfall- und Berufskrankheitengeschehen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Jahr 2000/) issued in January 2002, the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs presented
According to a study published in December 2001, based on data provided by the establishment panel of the Institute for Employment Research (Institut for Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung, IAB), the decline of collective bargaining coverage (DE9712140F [1]) continued in 2000 (Tarifverträge – nein