Volkswagen management has formally terminated a number of collective agreements, including the job security agreement, which has been in force since 1994 and is valid until 2029. Redundancies may be planned from July 2025. Negotiations will begin in the coming days.
As part of its cost-cutting programme, German automobile giant Volkswagen sent a letter to IG Metall denouncing several collective agreements, including the one on job security. This ‘historic’ agreement was signed in 1994 at the end of Volkswagen’s last major crisis in the mid-1990s, a period when the company was severely overstaffed.
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Thomas Schnee
Correspondent in Germany
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.