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20/12/2007

GM's Opel faces legal action by works council over overtime compensation

RUESSELSHEIM, Germany - General Motors German automaker Opel is facing legal action by its works council for failing to fully compensate employees for a total of 1 mln hours of overtime, according to the works council.

A legal complaint has been filed with a labor court in Darmstadt near Frankfurt after weeks of talks did not result in an agreement, it said.

The works council is calling on the company to compensate employees according to an existing collective wage agreement and to hire 650 new workers.

Opel, which over the past few years has cut about 5,000 jobs , said it is considering adding staff.

maria.sheahan@thomson.com

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Rüsselsheim
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Opel
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IG Metall
What ?

They fired 5000 workers, plan to close factories by dozen, and they have to make the ones still working do overtime ?

Planning is difficult, but come on, couldn't they fire the ones that planned such a mess ?

The IG Metall Works Council demands for 650 new jobs in Rüsselsheim. It is likely that GM has to agree at least to 300 up to 400 jobs. Bad message for all these headcount obsessed GM managers

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