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On Saturday 15 December, following difficult negotiations that were marked by a warning strike on 10 December that left much of the country’s rail traffic paralyzed, Germany’s rail company, Deutsche Bahn, along with the large rail union, the EVG, adopted a collective agreement that once again includes workers’ various demands and needs. As with the 2016 agreement, this new edition also includes higher salaries, this time amounting to 6.1% in two stages (+3.5% from 01/07/2019 and +2.6% from 01/07/2020) as well as a new ‘options model’. The ‘options model’ will allow workers to receive the second stage pay rise of 2.6% either in the form of higher pay, or six extra days of leave time, or a reduction in overall working time. This new agreement will run for 29 months and expire on 28 February 2021.
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