German law that gives the workers the right to know what their employers -- especially the very large ones -- are up to and a voice in some of the decisions the employer makes.
Are you familiar with the German law that requires large companies with over 10,000 employees to have worker representation, often including a couple of union representatives on the board of directors?
I don't want to translate the law, but here is the reference to the German Burgerliches Gesetzbuch.
http://www.jusline.de/index.php?cpid=ba688068a8c8a95352ed951ddb88783e&lawid=300&paid=7&mvpa=6I'm sure you can hire a lawyer to translate it for you, and if you don't understand it, you can hire a lawyer to explain it to you. Better yet, why don't you talk to the management of Siemens about their relationships with their workers.
Further, Germany imposes a value added tax on all imports. That means that outsourcing jobs is just a tad less profitable in Germany than in the US.
And most important, the difference between the pay of the German CEOs and the lowest paid worker is not as great as the difference between the American managers and their workers.
Finally, German workers learn their trade through spending time as apprentices often in the very companies they ultimately work for. This requires and investment by the prospective employer. In many cases, American employers expect workers to somehow learn their trade on their own.
In my experience, German employers are more loyal to their employees than are American ones who too often view their employees as figures on the company's bottom line, utterly dispensable, barely human and not as living, breathing human beings with families to support.
So, maybe if American companies valued their employees as much as German ones do, the affection would be mutual.
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