After two rulings at the federal Labour Court rendered in 1993 and 2002 by virtue of the principle of equal treatment among workers, Opel negotiated with its EWC a retroactive payment of an supplementary company pension to several thousands of pensioners. In German companies, there are many "lapses" and late payments concerning supplementary pensions. (Ref. 080002)
A ruling rendered by the federal Labour Court in 1993 had granted equal pension rights to blue-collar workers (Arbeiter) and white-collar workers (Angestellte) privileged until then. “The 1993 ruling did not specify that it also included supplementary company pensions. So we didn’t do anything”, explained an Opel spokesman to e-europnews. Another ruling by the same court in 2002 finally forced Opel, five years later, to revaluate the pension of almost 20.000 of these former blue-collar workers,
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