No agreement regarding job cuts at Deutsche Post

According to the staff council of DHL, the express and logistics subsidiary of German postal service operator Deutsche Post, talks regarding redundancies as part of the company’s planned restructuring of its express services have failed completely. This is in contrast to a statement made by a spokesman for Deutsche Post three days ago, which said that a compromise had been reached between the company and Ver.di, the trade union for the service sector. The staff council of DHL now says that representatives of Ver.di and of the group’s staff council have given in to pressure from Deutsche Post, which is keen to find a solution in order to put an end to the media attention that it has received as a result of the dispute. According to the staff council, the agreement does not offer any support to staff of DHL in real terms; although it allows staff who have been made redundant to apply for vacant positions within the group within six weeks, positions are considered to be vacant only if an employee of Deutsche Post has not already applied for the post