The DB’s personnel management is currently facing two challenges: demographic ageing (many people retiring) and the company’s international growth. At the end of 2011, DB CEO Rüdiger Grube announced that his company was about to recruit at least 70,000 people over the next ten years (see our dispatch No. 110514), after hiring nearly 11,000 in 2011. while the German labor market is becoming extremely competitive, especially on engineers and technical trades, Deutsche Bahn has been multiplying, since the beginning of the year, cooperation agreements on job search, employee takeover or training with German and foreign businesses and universities and, as it did on Monday, with the Federal Employment Agency.
addition to the agreements signed with 50 German universities, DB and its subsidiaries intend to work in much closer cooperation with European universities by 2014. In this context of expanding workforce, the collective bargaining round which started on Wednesday, July 11 with the GDL train drivers’ union should be more serene than in previous years. (Ref. 120463)
The DB’s personnel management is currently facing two challenges: demographic ageing (many people retiring) and the company’s int
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