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Deutsche Telekom Services Europe SE was incorporated in the register of commerce in Bonn on 20 August 2019. This subsidiary of the former state-owned group covers company-internal services for finance, purchasing and human resources with approximately 3,300 employees in the following countries: Germany 1,900, Slovakia 900, Romania 400 and Czechia 100. Deutsche Telekom has almost 100,000 employees in Germany and 48,000 in the rest of Europe, who have been represented by a European works council since 2004. The SE works council ("DTSE Committee") is domiciled at the EWC.
The small service company had established its own special negotiating body, which signed an SE agreement on 25 March 2019 in Bonn. The new DTSE committee is composed of nine members including six from Germany and meets once per month. Video conferences are possible, but at least five face-to-face meetings are held annually. The agreement contains an exact flow for the multi-level consultation procedure and provides for a three-member arbitration board for any disputes.
Codetermination in both the supervisory board and SE works council
Although there are fewer than 2,000 employees in Germany, there is a full-parity SE supervisory board. This includes six employee representatives: three works council members and two external union representatives from Germany as well as an employee representative from Slovakia. The second particularity are the codetermination rights for the DTSE committee. After a pilot phase of one year, national employee representatives may transfer their negotiation rights to the committee, if it involves a transnational matter. There is also an interesting appendix to the SE agreement, which prevents any reduction in earnings for representatives, if they are subject to performance or objectives based remuneration (with a precise mathematical model).
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