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Union demands new minimum wage regulation for German postal sector

05/02/10

A German union is calling for a new regulation on a minimum wage in the postal sector, following a court ruling invalidating the current settlement.

The ITF-affiliated Ver.di union stated that a new minimum wage regulation should be established. It should iron out the errors that led to a federal administrative court ruling in Leipzig on 28 January invalidating the current minimum wage settlement for postal workers, which was introduced on 1 January 2008. The errors, the court said, revolved around the government’s failure to consult more than one company; only Deutsche Post had been involved in consultations unlike TNT, which is attempting to make inroads into the German market.

In 2007, Ver.di negotiated a minimum wage collective agreement with the employers’ association covering some 200,000 postal workers. The union continues to stand firm on its hourly rate of between 8.40 and 9.80 euros (between US$11.50 and US$13.42).

Andrea Kocsis of Ver.di commented: “The errors highlighted by the court must be dealt with. That can easily be done by establishing a new regulation. The court decision does not do away with the minimum wage; the federal administrative court found formal errors. The post office minimum wage has been confirmed as an appropriate way of preventing social dumping in the postal sector.”

”With the minimum wage collective agreement we fulfilled our obligation to protect people employed in the postal sector in the face of an increasingly competitive environment before competition could impact negatively on their income,” she said.

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