IG Metall, Germany’s largest and most influential trade union, announced on 27 May through its chair Christiane Benner that it was temporarily withdrawing the four-day week from its list of collective demands. Included for the first time in 2023 for negotiations in the steel industry, this demand has yet to prove successful. “The four-day week with full pay is no longer on the list of union demands,” Christiane Benner told the newspaper Bild Zeitung. This decision does not make the model any le
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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.