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FEARING THE WORST

Do people fear the companies they work for? To some degree, yes. When your job is your only life-line, marginalized by six degrees of separation morality stands elsewhere. That type of shit will get make crosshairs stand up, professionally speaking. It’s ok to fear loosing your job. Just separate the company juxtapositions from your actual…

A need for change?

German workers may take such extensive levels of representation for granted but the models used in the country are not typical of other rich economies — plenty of British and American observers have cast envious glances towards the German system over the years. Watch video 01:49 ThyssenKrupp employees protest merger plans To what extent the…

The right to co-determination

While law does not dictate that a works council must be established by a company, workers in any private company with more than five employees are entitled to have one. The size of the council depends on the size of the company (e.g. 51-100 employees, a seven-person council). Read more: Germany faces huge shortage of…

Representing workers, the German way

Most German workers are familiar with the concepts of ‘works councils’ and ‘co-determination,’ but what are they? This week in Bonn, a conference of these uniquely German worker representative systems takes place. German Works Councils Day — it’s probably not going to set the pulses racing in the way that say, Valentine’s Day, Halloween or…