All resources: Germany

Questions and Answers

Youth employment in crisis: Questions and answers on the situation of youth on the labour market

Young people have been disproportionately affected by the global crisis that broke out in the autumn of 2008. This trend has exacerbated earlier challenges and there is concern that unless action is taken, the situation of youth will become...

Skills for green jobs in Germany

Background country study

Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 25

The German work-sharing scheme: An instrument for the crisis

Working Paper 9: "Company-level bargaining in times of crisis: The case of Germany"

This paper highlights the role collective bargaining played in easing the impact of the crisis on the company level in Germany. In using the company examples of Daimler AG, Postbank AG, Arccador AG, AB InBev Germany GmbH and Carl Zeiss AG, the paper...

Germany

International framework agreements and global social dialogue : lessons from the Daimler case

Employment Working Paper No. 46

International coordination

Joint statement by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the heads of five international organizations, including the OECD, ILO, IMF, WTO and...

The role of the ILO’s Decent Work Agenda in responding to the global economic downturn has received strong support at a meeting of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the heads of five international organizations, including the OECD, ILO, IMF, WTO...

The social budget of Germany

ILO/TF/FRG/R.1

Technical Note. Systems of governance of main social security schemes in the Arab States and selected countries France, Germany, United...

ILO/RP/Arab States/R.1

Decent Work Country Report - Germany

8th ILO European Regional Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal, 9-13 February 2009. Country background information for the Report of the Director-General

Making Decent Work a Global Goal and a National Reality: International conference, Düsseldorf, Germany, 18-20 September 2007 - Summary...

Making Decent Work a Global Goal and a National Reality: International conference, Düsseldorf, Germany, 18-20 September 2007 - Programme

Social Finance Working Paper #44: Overindebtedness in Germany

Social Finance Working Paper #41: Microlending in Germany

Trafficking for labour and sexual exploitation in Germany

Germany is an important destination contry for migrant workers from all over the world. Many of them work on the basis of mutually beneficial agreements made with their employers, but many are forced into submission by deception, threats, abuse,...

International Experience with Social Assistance Schemes. Five Country Case Studies. ILO, 2004

Working time family measures

Annualized hours (hours averaging) schemes

Overtime

Shift work