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Company-level alliances for jobs - normality on a more unsteady legal foundation?

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  • Norbert Berthold
  • Marita Brischke
  • Oliver Stettes

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Globalisation, technical progress and structural change have altered the economic environment in which enterprises and employees operate. Against this background the system of industrial relationships in Germany, with its collective bargaining on wages and working time, has become destabilised and affected by decentralisation trends, at the latest since the mid-1980s. Company-level agreements are increasingly gaining importance over collectively bargained agreements. This trend is confirmed not only by the growing number of company wage-agreements or companies not participating in collective agreements but in particular by the growing number of company-level alliances for jobs (bBfA). In the German machine and plant building industry, four in ten companies have such agreements between management and staff. These alliances carry explicit or implicit employment assurances in return for an improvement in adjustment flexibility in order to safeguard endangered jobs or company locations and to increase the competitiveness of the enterprise in the long term. Prof. Norbert Berthold, Marita Brischke and Oliver Stettes, Würzburg University, discuss the results of a survey on company-level alliances conducted among member enterprises of the VDMA.

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  • Norbert Berthold & Marita Brischke & Oliver Stettes, 2003. "Company-level alliances for jobs - normality on a more unsteady legal foundation?," ifo Schnelldienst, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 56(22), pages 5-9, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:ces:ifosdt:v:56:y:2003:i:22:p:5-9
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    1. Berthold, Norbert & Stettes, Oliver, 2001. "Die Gewinnbeteiligung - Wundermittel im organisatorischen und strukturellen Wandel?," Discussion Paper Series 49, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Chair of Economic Order and Social Policy.
    2. Berthold, Norbert & Brischke, Marita & Stettes, Oliver, 2003. "Betriebliche Bündnisse für Arbeit - Gratwanderung zwischen Tarifbruch und Tariftreue," Discussion Paper Series 64, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Chair of Economic Order and Social Policy.
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    • J50 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - General
    • L00 - Industrial Organization - - General - - - General

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