Germany: hardly launched, the new “ELENA” workers’ database sparks off controversy

e ever made in Germany was launched on January 1. In accordance with the “Law on the ELENA process” of March 28, 2009, all businesses have to give a central organization, once a month, a series of data about their employees (amount of wages, duration of the contract…). This centralized database is aimed at facilitating and quickening requests for social provisions as of 2012. However, its implementation immediately sparked off controversy. Indeed, unions and the federal representative for the p