Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Deutsche Post DHL has announced it will create up to 10,000 new jobs in Germany by 2020 in parcel delivery due to the rapidly growing parcel business. By 2025, the level of new jobs created could reach 25,000.
The additional staff will not be employed at Deutsche Post DHL itself but at new delivery companies founded under the subsidiary DHL Delivery. This means that the new employees will not be paid according to the in-house wage structure of Deutsche Post but in line with the regional collective terms and conditions. Trade union ver.di has criticised this plan and accuses Deutsche Post DHL of circumventing the agreed company wage structure.
Deutsche Post argues that personnel costs were too high and could not be maintained in the long term. The job creation via DHL Delivery enabled the creation of many permanent contracts.
Deutsche Post DHL is the world's biggest logistics / delivery company. It currently employs around 435,000 people worldwide and has run a turnover of 55 billion Euros in 2013.
Eurofound (2015), DHL Delivery, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 78223, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/78223.
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