Tag: Germany

German cabinet set to approve minimum wage for postal sector

Posted by | Sep 17, 2007 | |

The German grand coalition cabinet is set to approve a minimum wage for the postal deliveries sector when it meets Wednesday, a government spokesman said Monday.

Spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm said he expects the necessary steps will be taken to approve it.

The Social Democrats’ SPD party and the conservative parties CDU and CSU recently clashed over the introduction of a minimum wage parallel to the completion of the liberalization of the letter deliveries market that is scheduled for Jan. 1, 2008.

The Social Democrats had publicly called on Chancellor Angela Merkel to accept the minimum wage as agreed in a previous agenda, despite resistance from the German Economics Minister Michael Glos.

A spokeswoman for Glos said Monday she was confident that a solution could be found Wednesday.

Former monopoly Deutsche Post AG and services union ver.di recently agreed on a minimum wage in a range of between EUR8 and EUR9.8 per hour.

The SPD remains committed to extend minimum wages to other sectors, Hubertus Heil, the SPD’s general secretary said.

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Deutsche Post World Net appoints new CFO

Posted by | Sep 14, 2007 | |

Effective October 1st, John Allan (59) will assume responsibility as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) based in Bonn, the headquarters of Deutsche Post World Net (DPWN). Allan is already a member of the Deutsche Post World Net Executive Management Board and responsible for Logistics, based in Bracknell/London. In future, he will also take over the Global Business Services (GBS), the Group’s Shared Services such as IT, Procurement, Real Estate, or Legal Services.

Frank Appel (46) will take over Allan’s current position as Head of the Logistics division in Bracknell, effective October 1st. Appel ran the DHL Logistics business prior to the Exel-acquisition and is currently on the Executive Management Board in charge of Global Business Services (GBS), Mail International and Global Customer Solutions (GCS). While Allan takes over GBS after Appel successfully established these Shared Services functions, the latter will keep his responsibility as Head of GCS, the unit which manages the relationships with Deutsche Post World Net’s top 100 customers. Appel will also continue to run Mail International, Corporate Regulatory Management as well as the “First Choice”-program, which is Deutsche Post World Net’s quality and customer service improvement initiative.

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Lutz Glandt joins divisional board at Deutsche Post

Posted by | Sep 12, 2007 | |

Lutz Glandt, 51, will join the Divisional Board MAIL Germany of Deutsche Post World Net with effect from October 1, 2007. He will be in charge of Media Services with responsibility for around ten percent of revenues in the MAIL Germany division. His future brief will include expanding Deutsche Post business with media companies and further development of non-addressed mail formats.

Glandt is a specialist in the media business and has worked for over 25 years in a number of senior positions in the newspaper and magazine sector. For the last two years he has acted as adviser to the Group’s Corporate Board on media issues. For many years before that he was a member of the senior management team of WAZ Media Group in Essen.”

Glandt will report to Jürgen Gerdes, Corporate Board Member MAIL and PARCEL Germany at Deutsche Post World Net.

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Deutsche Post rejects EU allegation It misused government subsidies

Posted by | Sep 12, 2007 | |

German postal services and logistics company Deutsche Post AG said Wednesday it rejects the allegation made by the European Commission that it misused German government subsides.

The European Commission Wednesday said it has opened an investigation to probe all public funds granted to Deutsche Post since 1989.

Deutsche Post spokesman Dirk Klasen said it was “incomprehensible” that Germany and Deutsche Post – which are leading European postal service liberalization – were being investigated by the commission.

E.U. law states that every country’s national post company is bound to serve all regions in that country, including those which are unprofitable because they are hard to reach or are sparsely populated.

The commission said earlier Wednesday that Deutsche Post’s competitors allege the former monopoly used this money to expand commercial activities and to sell services too cheaply to its subsidiaries DHL and Postbank AG, which is banned under E.U. law.

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EU to examine all German subsidies to Deutsche Post in new state aid probe

Posted by | Sep 12, 2007 | |

EU regulators will investigate the German state subsidies of Deutsche Post, once the state-owned postal service, to determine if it bolstered commercial operations with public money, the European Union said Wednesday.

The EU’s executive arm said rivals had complained that Deutsche Post AG used government money to undercut the private sector by selling services “too cheaply” to banking arm Postbank and parcel service DHL – one of the world’s three biggest delivery companies.

Deutsche Post immediately denied any illegal subsidies, calling the investigation “surprising and completely incomprehensible.” Deutsche Post said regulators have reviewed company accounts numerous times.

In Berlin, Finance Ministry spokesman Torsten Albig said the investigation had been expected and expressed confidence the Commission would clear the company in end.

The new investigation comes on top of the EU’s 2002 order for Deutsche Post to repay the German government 572 million euros (USD 791 million) in public money that the company had used to finance a rebate pricing policy for its door-to-door parcel business.
Governments usually pay postal operators to run the costly mail delivery service for the country, but they are forbidden from using the money for other services.

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