Works council

So, because Steve is trying to get a...

Betriebsrat for Spielwerks currently.

No, when he's on parental leave.

Exactly, exactly.

In the same week, Barclays said it will cut about 5,000 jobs, and its chief executive said AI is the icing on the cake, not the cake.

Volkswagen's works council said management plans to freeze pay for more than 660,000 people until 2030.

And the chief executive of ASML said he will tie senior pay to how employees rate the company.

This is Papercut from Employer Branding News.

In Greenhouse's survey, 88% of job seekers want disclosure to be a legal requirement.

Last theme, pay.

Volkswagen's Works Council says management plans to freeze pay until 2030 for more than 660,000 staff worldwide.

The council called it absurd.

But there's more.

If an office has more than 50 people, the company is legally required to fund a Works Council.

What that means? Well, the Works Council provides employees with heavily subsidized movie tickets, theme park admissions, ski passes, cheap holiday trips.

And speaking of holidays, once home from that cheap vacation, the workers are legally protected with their right to disconnect.

It's illegal for your boss to text or email after hours.

GM has eliminated hundreds of jobs at Oshawa, Ontario, and idled its CAMI operation in the Canadian province.

Volkswagen and IG Metal agreed to eliminate more than 35,000 jobs in Germany by 2030, and the company's Global Works Council says management is planning a worldwide wage freeze through 2030.

Porsche has announced a further 5,000 cuts in Germany under an agreement with its Works Council and union.

Modern auto production connects workers across continents and world supply chains.

Andrzej, this is all lovely, but our Works Council will never approve any of this.

Here's what years of these conversations have taught me.

Works Councils don't reject rules.

They reject the absence of rules.

What gets torn apart in consultation is vagueness.

And we got some more auto news here.

Volkswagen plans to freeze salaries until 2030, the Works Council says.

Now, this is important.

This is the Works Council's, which is kind of like the government slash union board that negotiates with Volkswagen.

So this isn't an official company talking point yet, yet.

Volkswagen plans to freeze salaries for its 660,000 staff worldwide until 2030, the group's works council said on Monday, confirming an earlier report by something German that I'm not even going to try to pronounce.

The Global Works Council said it had received internal information about executive board's plans.

Volkswagen declined to comment on speculation.

The 52 are proposals under consultation and are counted as announced reductions, not departures.

A separate proposal for about 100 voluntary departures across Ubisoft's German studios is confirmed only as a discussion with the Works Council and is carried, not counted.

1-0-25.

The Israeli Digital Bank told staff on Sunday that 25 people, about 7% of roughly 350, would go with about 10 vacancies left unfilled and excluded from the count as it grows, in the chief executive's words, without expanding our workforce or cost base.

One other thing I would just call out as well on the data front, if it's useful for you to include, is data governance has been its own challenge for us.

And so I just want to point out for those listening that the companies typically have their own data governance policies, but then operate within these ecosystems where you have to negotiate with works council around what you can and cannot do.

And so one of the biggest challenges we've had has been around influencing shifts or kind of revisions to our own company policy around data governance, and also working very closely with the Works Council so that we can collect and capture the skills information that we need from our workforce.

And so that is one of the most complex pieces of this entire journey.

Okay, let's