Deutsche Post plans to raise civil servants' working hours
Deutsche Post World Net AG plans to raise the weekly working hours for its some 55,000 civil servants to 41 from 38.5 as soon as a labour agreement expires March 31, Die Welt reported, not citing its sources.
The former state-owned monopoly company still employs a large number of former state civil servants. Civil servants employed in the government administration work 41 hours a week.
Chief executive Frank Appel at Deutsche Post’s annual press conference last week did not say the German mail services company plans to extend working hours, but said the 41 hours are an issue.
A labour agreement that rules out compulsory redundancies for Deutsche Post’s 130,000 German employees also expires at the end of March.
ver.di has as a measure of precaution cancelled all wage agreements effective March 31 in order to be able to launch strikes April 1, as it fears Deutsche Post plans to lay off several thousands employees.
