BMW: Will apply the 35 working hours in its factory in East Germany

BMW will reduce its working hours at its plant in East Germany from 38 to 35 hours in order to be equal to those at its plants in East Germany, it said today, in a move welcomed by the workers’ council to achieve the long-awaited equality of 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Wages and working hours are still unequal between East and West Germany, with government figures showing that workers in East Germany still work a few more hours for less money than their counterparts in West Germany.

BMW today pledged to reduce the weekly working hours of its plant in Leipzig, part of the former communist East Germany, to three stages in 35 hours by 2026 and bring in an additional 300 workers to make up for the shortfall.

“More than 30 years after the fall of the Wall, our BMW Group employees do not finally need to work three hours more than their colleagues in the West,” said Manfred Skock, head of the workers’ council.

Competitor Volkswagen did something similar in May, applying the 35-hour week to its factories in East Germany to have the same working hours as West Germany.

However, it did not hire additional workers, expecting instead that the productivity of its factories in East Germany would increase.

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Source From: Capital

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