PIN Group plans to circumvent minimum wage for German postal workers

Axel Springer AG’s PIN Group plans to circumvent new minimum wage laws for German postal workers by contracting mail delivery services at publishing houses and regional mail service companies, Financial Times Deutschland reported, citing an unnamed executive at PIN’s Luxembourg headquarters.

Newspaper delivery men and part-time mail men at regional mail service companies earn lower wages and are not necessarily subject to the minimum wage agreement, the report said.

PIN yesterday said it is laying of around 880 employees after the German government decided last week to introduce minimum wages of 8-9.80 eur for postal workers, based on a minimum wage agreement concluded by services union ver.di and an employer’s association dominated by mail incumbent Deutsche Post World Net AG.