The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Transportation / Storage Land, Water And Air Transportation Land Transport And Transport Via Pipelines 49.1 - Passenger rail transport, interurban
1,200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
28 August 2016
Employment effect (start)
28 August 2016
Foreseen end date
31 December 2016
Description
On 29 July 2016, German Railway Company Deutsche Bahn(DB) announced plans to create up to 1,200 new jobs for train drivers. The vacancies will be filled through new entrants and apprentices. The job creation is due to reduction of overtime of DB's workforce. Their train drivers have accumulated a total of 1.5 million hours of overtime which corresponds to about 80 hours per train driver. In the following days the company will negotiate with the train drivers union GDL about the collective agreement and further details about the overtime reduction. The union announced that between 800 and 1,000 train drivers are needed in Germany. Deutsche Bahn previously assured that 300 train drivers will be hired.
The latest announcement follows a series of restructuring measures at Deutsche Bahn and its affiliates in recent years:
On 27 July 2016, Deutsche Bahn announced to create up to 500 jobs on its subsidiary DB Sicherheit in order to improve security at train station and on trains (DB Sicherheit, 2016).
In March 2016 its subsidiary DB Cargo announced to cut 2,100 jobs due a decrease in business (DB Cargo, 2016).
In 2014 Deutsche Bahn created some 1,250 jobs (Deutsche Bahn, 2013). However, at its subsidiary DB Regio, Deutsche Bahn cut 600 jobs in 2014 (DB Regio, 2014).
Turnover of Deutsche Bahn increased by 1.1 per cent in the first half of 2016. In total, Deutsche Bahn currently employs some 293,000 employees.
Sources
29 August 2016: Manager Magazin online
28 August 2016: N-TV Online
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Deutsche Bahn , Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 88404, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/88404.
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