On July 4th, Deutsche Post and the Verdi union have launched negotiations which will spread over seven meetings in order to develop a new working time system updating part-time early retirement (Altersteilzeit). While the Deutsche Post's staff is getting older increasingly fast, the goal is to increase retirement age for mailmen, which is much lower than the national average, while enabling them to perform the most arduous tasks for as long as possible. The renewal of the job security pact, which will expire at the end of 2011, is also being debated. (Ref. 110497)
Older staff and early retirement. Verdi says that the concurrence between the fact that Deutsche Post employees are getting older increasingly fast and traditionally early retirements is a “time bomb” that needs to be defused right away. In average, employees are aged 46.9, which
should go up to 52 in ten years, so the company is going to face many retirements in the decade to come. The situation is even more critical since average retirement age at the Deutsche Post is much lower than the na
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