000 German employees: they are safe from layoffs until December 31, 2016. After relatively quick negotiations, the carmaker’s management and central WC agreed, on October 5th, on the renewal of the broad lines of the “Employment Pact” signed in 2004, which expires at the end of the year. In return, Daimler may keep using agency workers. (Ref. 110596)
A pact signed for
future employees as well. Dieter Zetsche, chairman of Daimer’s
board, and Erich Klemm, leader of the central WC, rejoiced