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> This is not agile enough for a startup. As of 2018, only 5% of German companies of 5 to 50 employees had a worker's council.[1] And even if a council exists
by Archelaos 4y ago
> This is not agile enough for a startup.
As of 2018, only 5% of German companies of 5 to 50 employees had a worker's council.[1] And even if a council exists it is just max. 3 members at this size.
I can imagine that in some cases the council makes necessary restructuring more difficult, but in the crises of the last decades, works councils and trade unions in Germany were much more willing to compromise than in many other European economies where this so-called "social partnership" is not so pronounced, for example in France. All in all, it seems that worker's councils in Germany are a quite successful institution to mitigate conflict between employees and management.
[1] https://www.iab-forum.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/BAA000319_IAB_Tabelle_19-010_RZ_T1-1.jpg https://www.iab-forum.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/BAA00031... (in German)