Abolishing status differences between employees. By giving satisfaction to a retired worker from Ford Deutschland, the BAG’s ruling (Ref. 3 AZR 216/09) clearly established equal treatment regarding corporate supplementary pension between different categories of employees. Officially, in Germany, the difference between “blue-collar workers” (mostly manual jobs) and “white-collar" workers (mostly “cerebral” jobs) was repealed in 2001, when the reform of the “Works Constitution Act” (Betriebverfassungsgesetz) was enforced. The latter determines rules regarding employees in German businesses. However, many collective and company agreements have yet to include this change and there is still unequal treatment, whether it is justified or not, between the two categories. The plaintiff, who demanded the same supplementary pension as his white-collar colleagues, obtained satisfaction. The judges added that equal treatment meant increasing pensions, not decreasing them.
rporate supplementary pension between different categories of employees. Officially, in Germany, the difference between “blue-collar workers” (mostly manual jobs) and “white-collar” workers (mostly “cerebral” jobs) was repealed in 2001, when the reform of the “Works Constitution Act” (Betriebverfassungsgesetz) was enforced. The latter determines rules regarding employees in German businesses. However, many collective and company agreements have yet to include this change and there is still uneq
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