Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to Germany as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
Germany: Online works council voting
No decision yet on the introduction of online works council voting …
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Germany: Declining interest in Internships from amongst students
A survey conducted by the consulting and market research company Trendence has found that interest in Internships has fallen from 72 …
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Germany: Environmental elements strengthened in Corporate Governance Code
Many companies are struggling to extend their existing corporate codes to meet the new requirements to take on board sustainability issues …
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Germany: New citizenship rules
With effect from December 2022, all foreigners formally living in Germany will be able to apply for citizenship after 5 years instead of 8 years …
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Germany: Tax-free bonus facility extended
Under its third package of inflation-relief measures, the government has announced that employers may pay out tax-free annual bonuses to each member of staff of up to €3,000 …
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Germany: Volkswagen settles strikes with hard-nosed pay concession
125,000 Employees in western German VW factories are set to receive pay rises totaling 8 …
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Germany: Inflation rate at +10.4% in October 2022
Consumer price changes reach post-reunification high …
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Germany: Representations rights on conversion to a European Company (SE)
The European Court of Justice has ruled that if a company converts from a stock corporation under German law to a European Company (SE), trade union representation on the Supervisory board must remain unaffected …
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Germany: Additional income limit in early retirement pensions to be scrapped
From 1st January 2023, the double earnings limit will be removed from those retiring before the standard state retirement age …
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Germany: Continued protection through representation for disabled persons
Does the disability representative on the representative committee (SBV) end because the number of disabled people employed falls below the 5-person threshold? A company in Cologne with employees on two sites informed the sole SBV representative at one site that the body there no longer existed and that remaining disabled employees were represented via the committee at the second worksite …
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Germany: Lufthansa reaches agreement with Cabin Crew union UFO
The deal, that will run until 31st December 2023, includes a flat rate rise of EUR 250 in basic monthly pay from 1st January 2023, followed by a further 2 …
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Germany: Disabled workers may not claim tax relief for taxi costs arising from their daily commute
The Federal Fiscal Court has determined that a disabled man’s taxi costs for travel to work could not be subject to tax relief at cost, but only at a rate as if he was travelling by his own vehicle …
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Germany: Pay agreement in the chemical and pharmaceuticals industry
The employer association BAVC has reached a deal with the IG BCE union for two 3 …
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Germany: Should staff councils be involved in the setting of fixed-term limits?
The Federal Labour Court (BAG) has recently been called upon to determine whether the duration of a fixed-term agreement is invalid if the staff council was not involved in setting its term …
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Germany: Decline in IAB barometer for September 2022
The IAB barometer measures trends in the labour market and is a composite of two predictive measures …
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