On 12 July, leaders at Audi’s central works council presented a company agreement on ‘mobile working’. The agreement is set to apply to the automaker’s 60,000 staff from October 2016 and it draws largely on an existing agreement treating laptop and smartphone use. It has been designed to add another pillar to Audi’s already comprehensive policy that addresses work life balance. Employees’ rights surrounding mobile work lie at the heart of the agreement. Michaela Schnellhardt, Audi spokesperson for HR spoke to Planet Labor on the topic.
A global agreement. On 12 July, Thomas Sigi, head of Audi HR and Peter Mosch, President of the automaker’s central works council (WC) presented a new company agreement on ‘mobile working’. Michaela Schnellhardt, Audi HR spokesperson explained, “this agreement takes all parties in the company into account and it institutes the right to mobile working in Audi.
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