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During its Forum meeting on 26 March 2015, the European Works Council (EWC) of Deutsche Post DHL Group delivered a statement to central management expressing their disappointment over their refusal to enter into dialogue over a potential agreement with the EWC concerning the deployment of temporary agency workers throughout the Group’s European operations.

The EWC viewed a potential agreement, aimed primarily at implementing the contents of the relevant EU Directive within DPDHL Group and at establishing a framework for the deployment of temporary agency workers within the Group in  Europe, as giving credit to the ‘Employer of Choice’ and the EXPRESS Top Employer Global 2015 entrusted Awards.

Such an agreement with the EWC would have placed DPDHL Group on a par with other Multinationals who have signed similar agreements. It would also have demonstrated that DPDHL Group values social dialogue which can lead to specific agreements. Instead DPDHL Group, refusing to enter into dialogue with the EWC on this matter, replied that it complied with existing legislation and regulations.

The EWC considered this stance as the strict minimum and reiterated its willingness to engage into meaningful dialogue to thoroughly implement the conditions set out in article 8 of the EU Agency Workers Directive, according to which the Group must ‘provide appropriate information regarding the deployment of agency workers’.

The EWC expressed its intention to pursue their request on this important matter as the Group has incrementally extended its recourse to temporary agency workers within its European and global operations.

Following the delivery of the EWC Statement, Deutsche Post DHL Group Central Management expressed its intention to pursue dialogue with the EWC regarding the provision of “appropriate information about deployment of agency workers”.