Germany: Daimler’s temporarily unemployed staff still gets up to 97% of their salary

Thanks to a framework agreement (Manteltarifvertrag) signed with unions in 2005 and the "Pact for the Future 2012", the 40.000 employees of Daimler subject to partial unemployment measures keep receiving almost all their net wages and are safe from mass layoffs until December 31, 2011. (Ref. 090061)
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“The conditions in which Daimler’s employees will have to face a few
weeks or even a few months of unemployment are completely acceptable,
especially since they know there won’t be any dismissals at the end of the
road” Sabine Ernst, spokesman for Daimler AG’s WC, told Planet Labor.

40.000 employees partially unemployed. Since January 12, 2009 (see
our dispatch No. 080994
),
after forced Christmas holidays which lasted four weeks (instead of two
usually), several thousands of employees are subjec

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