On March 21, the Deutsche Bahn's social partners signed an agreement on the procedures for informing and consulting the group's employees. The text defines the modalities for the restructuring and operating of the EWC of Deutsche Bahn AG, taking account of the evolutions of Directive 2009/38 on European works councils, and of the recent arrival of 40,000 employees from the Arriva British group, which the DB bought in 2010. Until now, Arriva had a EWC governed by British law. To facilitate the integration of Arriva's employee representation system, independent expert committees will be created especially for Arriva, and for DB Schenker Rail and DB Schenker Logistics (DB bought Schenker in 2002). They will be sort of like auxiliary EWCs. The new EWC will be set up some time in October 2012. Michael Bartl, secretary and attorney of DB's EWC, is explaining this agreement to Planet Labor. (Ref. 120405)
Take account of European and regulatory evolutions. Like other major rail companies in Europe, Deutsche Bahn is working to extend its activities outside of national borders, at European level. Until now, the two high points of this expansion are the purchase of Schenker AG (German) and its 96,000 employees in 2002, and the purchase of Arriva (UK) and its 40,000 employees in 2010 (Brussels agreed in return for the sale of Arriva Deutschland to Trenitalia). With Schenker, DB was able to become
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