Dr. Rainer Dulger, Employer President
“Not everything is running smoothly in the European single market. For many companies today, cross-border work is associated with too much effort, legal uncertainty and bureaucracy,” warns employer president Dr. Rainer Dulger in Standpunkt. Prof. Dr. Hüther, IW Cologne, calls for reforms to working hours in the Comment of the Week. In the interview of the week with WELT am SONNTAG, BDA Managing Director Steffen Kampeter warns against political interference in the minimum wage.
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Comment of the week
Germany needs a new working time reality
Prof. Dr. Michael Hüther,The BDA ensures that the social partnership anchored in the Basic Law succeeds and that fair working conditions are guaranteed in our country.
Our goal is to operate in such a way that future generations can also find sufficient employment and create prosperity.
The social market economy underlies our actions and is based on freedom, responsibility, subsidiarity and solidarity.
Committed to Europe – in Berlin and Brussels. The Brussels office of our European Affairs Department constitutes together with BDI, the BDI/BDA The German Business Representation - the European voice of the entire German business community. We analyse what the European Union’s latest legislative proposals would mean for German business and jobs. And much more.
Members of the BDA are 14 interdisciplinary regional associations and 46 federal umbrella associations of employers from the fields of industry, trade, finance, transport, crafts, services and agriculture. Around 1 million companies with approx. 30.5 million employees are affiliated to them directly or indirectly via their member associations.
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