Just Transition

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• IG Metall Future Agreements (II): overview of companies adapting to the transition with workers' participation.

  IG Metall has put together an overview of collective agreements in their sectors which secure employment and skills for the future in times of green and digital transition.
  

• The Carbon Contracts for Difference in Germany. A new funding instrument for the transition with the respect of social conditionalities.

  CCFDs are a new tool to support companies in the transition to climate-friendly operations over 15 years.
  
  

• IG Metall Future Agreements (I): co-governance in the view of the Transition in Germany.

  IG Metall promotes an active engagement of its members in the business change and opportunities which companies are facing in Germany with the disruption of the Digital and Green Transition

• Employment policy for a Just Transition. The example of Germany.

  This article seeks to find how to make work better in the green transformation, taking as an example the ongoing reforms in Germany in education, training and wage setting. Institutional reforms are necessary to advance through an inclusive employment system.

• Germany - Massive 24-hour strikes in the German steel industry

  The negotiating parties are still far apart regarding pay rise and IG Metall organises large-scale industrial action to put pressure on their counterpart.
  

• Retirement package and other initiatives for old coal mine workers

  Old workers are more exposed to the risks of the Green Transition as they are more difficult to reskill. This report provides an analysis of retirement and support packages for old workers in the EU coal sector.
  

• Transition towards electrification in the German car industry

  One of the main German car manufacturers, Mercedes-Benz, and the representative trade union in the automotive sector, IG Metall, have made firm steps forward in the direction of a fair and just transition, in the framework of the shift from combustion engines to electric vehicles.

• Germany prepares to introduce a one-year leave period for education and training

  Germany's Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Mr. Hubertus Heil, has presented a new planned law, which follows the Austrian model, to make employees fit for change in companies. The idea is to open up additional opportunities for employees in view of the shortage of skilled workers.

• A Transformation Council for Rhineland-Palatinate

  The state government of Rhineland-Palatinate, in cooperation with trade unions, the representative of employers' associations and other actors, has created a place to join forces to support employees and companies to become winners of the transformation.
  

• IG Metall - Mobility Report 2022

  IG Metall presented its Mobility Report, drafted together with the environmental organisation BUND. Around 20 participants joined their forces to discuss trends, developments and effects of the transition in the mobility sector, looking into the future and providing possible development paths.

• DGB Projekt Revierwende accompanies the transition of coal regions and workers

  The German Trade Union Confederation DGB launched a project to accompany coal regions and workers in the transition process and actively involving them in shaping the transition. For that purpose it set up 6 regional offices in 4 German coal regions.
  

• German Social Partners Chemie sustainability initiative

  The Chemie sustainability initiative founded by VCI, IG BCE and BAVC developing sustainability guidelines for the chemical industry in Germany.

• BASF in Ludwigshafen - site agreement adressing Green Deal

  BASF in Ludwigshafen has had a site agreement for many years. A new one was agreed in 2020 also addressing the Green Deal. Two main objectives are pursued with the site agreements...