Compromise ends Telekom dispute

Germany

The ver.di services union has ended the strike in the Deutsche Telekom company following a compromise over the company's plans for outsourcing of 50,000 jobs. Although the outsourcing to three new companies will go ahead the employees affected will not suffer the level of pay cuts initially sought by the company. However, there will be a 6.5% cut in pay and increase in weekly hours from 34 to 38. At the same time there is a commitment to reduce outsourcing and to increase training. The company has agreed that there will be no redundancies at least until 2012.
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