The Collective Bargaining Compliance Act is state-sponsored collective bargaining censorship
On the occasion of the first reading in the Bundestag on the Collective Bargaining Compliance Act, BDA Chief Executive Steffen Kampeter states:
The Collective Bargaining Compliance Act is state-sponsored collective bargaining censorship
Berlin, October 10, 2025. "The planned Collective Bargaining Compliance Act is an anti-growth law: it creates new bureaucracy, excludes smaller companies in particular from public tenders, and blocks the path to greater collective bargaining coverage. Especially in this economically tense situation, this is the wrong signal – and a clear contradiction to the federal government's goals of reducing bureaucracy. The state should not be allowed to decide which collective agreements apply. This form of wage censorship contravenes both the German constitution and EU law and represents an attack on collective bargaining autonomy. If you really want to strengthen collective bargaining coverage, you have to let the social partners do their job – and not declare the state to be the arbiter.
Our appeal to the Bundestag is clear: this law must be stopped."
