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Never before has disagreement between the Works Council and management been so publically displayed. This very fact indicates just how significant the adverse impact of the ‘dieselgate’ scandal has been for the company especially for the social dialogue process. In spite of this, in November both the WC and management did manage to secure an economic plan (c.f. article No. 9930), which intends for 23,000 fewer jobs in Germany by 2020, whilst avoiding any redundancies. However this particular escalating discord centers on the implementation of the November agreement, with the WC criticizing VW management for not upholding its commitments by refusing to guarantee the transition to full employment for interim workers who have worked for more than three years, whilst management looks to handle the crisis by quickly shrinking the number of temporary contracts. Following a breakdown in talks on 13 February that had been organized after a week full of tense discussion, Matthias Müller, VW CEO, penned a missive to try and appease worries. The CEO wrote of the dispute, “It gives the wrong and destructive impression that at Volkswagen people work against each other instead of with each other.”
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