"Lüko Willms" wrote in message
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Am 30.12.2011 07:09, schrieb Lüko Willms:
Herr Schnell wants to "purge" ALL railway workers in Berlin (at least
those working for the S-Bahn), making them unemployed (which means in
today's Germany to fall quickly into 'Hartz4'). Some of them might be
re-employed, says Herr Schnell, after a new selective process of
recruitment, even for those who have decades of experience in operating
the S-Bahn network.


I forgot to mention that, according to Herr Schnells plan, the workers
would be allowed to reapply for their job (at much worse conditions) only
at a completely new company which would not have the old collective
contracts with the trade union and the works council on the books, so that
the workers would be initially stripped of all their acquisitions which
they got over the past decades and which could not be destroyed by the
takeover of the GDR by the separate West state.

The workers need a good lawyer who understands the German equivalent of TUPE
(Transfer of Undertakings - Protection of Employment) Regulations, and the
European Directive on which it is based. Or perhaps Herr Schnell has a
cunning plan to get Germany to withdraw from the European Union. ;-)

Peter

Peter