By announcing on November 21st 2006, the shedding of 4000 jobs in its Belgian factory of Forest because of the transfer of production of the Golf to two German sites, the automobile group Volkswagen seems to have respected neither the European legislation on workers' information-consultation, nor that on the European work's council, nor the provisions of its agreement establishing this EWC. (Ref. 070034)
After having announced the shedding of 20000 jobs, mainly in Germany, the automobile group Volkswagen concluded, in November 2006, an agreement with the trade union IG Metall on a reorganization which includes an increase in working hours from 28.8 hours to 33 or 34 hours per week, without wage compensation, but with an employment guarantee for German employees (see story n° 06958). But this agreement involved a reorganization which exceeded the German territory and included a real European dimension.
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