Just a few weeks after the announcement by the Volkswagen Group (660,000 employees worldwide) of a “2030 Plan for the Future” including the reduction of 50,000 jobs (in addition to the 50,000 already planned) and decisions on the future of four German plants, it is now the turn of the Volkswagen brand (127,000 employees worldwide) to unexpectedly take centre stage on the industrial relations front. It has done so by announcing, to general surprise, the termination of 10 of the 13 existing inter
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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.