PIN AG, first private company in the postal sector in Germany, currently in bankruptcy reorganization proceeding, finally decided to apply the new legal minimum wage which came into effect on January 1, 2008. TNT Post, second private company in the postal sector, and subsidiary of the Dutch giant, squarely refuses and wants to go to court. The Verdi and UNI unions threaten with an international day of action. (Ref. 080065)
“Pin does not want to practice social dumping”, declared, at the beginning of the week, Horst Piepenburg, the administrative receiver who now decides of the PIN AG’s future. The company, mostly owned by the press editor Axel Sringer Verlag (ASV), is the first private actor in the postal sector to accept to apply minimum wage between 8 and 9.8 gross euros an hour defined by law and negotiated at the end of 2007 between the Deutsche Post AG and the services’ union Verdi. This decision is partly l
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