Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to Germany as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
Germany: Act to promote transparency of pay structures
As previously reported, the Act to promote transparency of pay structures (Entgelttransparenzgesetz) came into force on July 6th 2017 …
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Germany: Index of collectively agreed earnings
Over the year to June 2017 the German index of collectively agreed earnings in industry and services rose by 3 …
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Germany: Overhaul of pension system
The German government is seeking to extend the popularity of company pensions to medium-sixed and smaller companies …
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Germany: New law allowing to extensively survey messenger services
The next time your computer system receives spyware the source could be legal – at least in Germany …
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Germany: Labour costs Q1 2017
Over the year to Q1 2017 hourly labour costs in Germany rose by 2 …
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Germany: Tesla Grhmann Automation
The company Grohmann Engineering was taken over by the US automaker Tesla last Autumn and renamed Tesla Grhmann Automation …
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Germany: Peer pressure
The online retailer Amazon has come up with a novel way to encourage their German workforce to turn up to work – peer pressure …
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Germany: Full face covering burqa and niqab
The lower house of the German federal parliament has given way to pressure from right wing populist parties by passing a ban on the wearing of the full face covering burqa and niqab by civil servants, judges and the military …
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Germany: Highway toll
The decision by the German government to start charging foreign drivers special tolls for driving on German roads is raising strong opposition from neighboring states …
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Germany: Transparency of remuneration act
Companies employing 200 or more people in Germany will soon have to comply with the Transparency of Remuneration Act …
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Germany: 2016 average gross hourly earnings gap
In 2016 the average gross hourly earnings of female employees in Germany were 21% lower than for male employees …
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Germany: Deutsche Bank bonus payment
Deutsche Bank has revealed that only 10% of its bankers and traders will receive a bonus payment this year – and that the payout will be spread over the next five years …
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Germany: Integration law
A new integration law has been passed by the Bavarian parliament aimed at dealing with the large influx of immigrants into the state …
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Germany: Target companies for DP checks
Data protection authorities in ten different German Lander (states) are currently undertaking a coordinated investigation into 500 large companies to determine how they handle data transfers to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA) …
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Germany: New labour leasing rules
The latest draft Employee Leasing Act (“AÜG”) currently before Germany’s lower house of parliament (Budesrat) requires all temporary workers to be employed directly by the lender …
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