Longer Working Hours — The Beginning of a New Trend?

Seppo Honkapohja and Frank Westermann
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Chapter 5 in Designing the European Model, 2009, pp 144-174 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract A number of company-level agreements on longer working hours have recently been concluded in Germany. Such deals, for example, at Siemens and DaimlerChrysler have been widely publicised. The increases in working time have taken place without — or with only partial — pay compensation and thus represent cuts in hourly wages. They have in many cases occurred in response to employer threats of outsourcing production to lower-cost facilities abroad.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230236653_6

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