Germany: Erwin Hymer Group’s innovative and award-winning AI agreement

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An article by Thomas Schnee

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12 December 2025 à 11h18

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Fed up with negotiating separate agreements for each new artificial intelligence (AI) tool, the social partners at Erwin Hymer Group (8,900 employees) have instead secured a broad, overarching pact that makes human safeguards the priority. The management of the German recreational vehicle manufacturer, which initiated the talks, had to grant substantial concessions, but the company’s roadmap for deploying AI is now firmly in place.

An article by Thomas Schnee

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12 December 2025 à 11h18

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Erwin Hymer Group (EHG), the European market leader in motorhomes and caravans, which joined the American THOR group in 2019, finalised a framework agreement on AI in spring 2025, applicable to all its employees and German subsidiaries. This innovative text earned the company’s central works council a prestigious award in the country of codetermination in November 2025: the works council award in the AI category. For Professor Wolfgang Däubler, an internationally renowned expert in labour law a

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Thomas Schnee Correspondent in Germany
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As a Berlin correspondent for the French and Swiss press since the late 1990s, I cover a wide range of economic, political and social issues, with a particular focus on the German business and labour market. My areas of interest include co-determination, digitalisation, demographics and ESG/DEI policies.

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