Word: derlying
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...farmer who resigned amid the previous food crisis, the one over bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or "mad cow" disease. Künast, 45, is a lawyer with no experience in agriculture. In appointing her to head a new ministry that combines consumer protection, food and farming, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder declared, "The German farming association has to accept that its influence is going to be shaved away." Künast made the same point to parliament, saying the bse crisis "marks the end of old-fashioned agriculture." Instead, she wants to increase organic farming...
...about relationships. "I love both those guys," chortled German Chancellor Gerhard Schr?der as his Minister of Labor, Walter Riester, exchanged barbs with his Minister of Economics, Werner Müller, over a core component of Germany's industrial culture: the right of workers to help run the companies they work...
...workers can benefit too. Müller concedes the laws delivered a certain stability in a world where stability mattered, but he argues that world no longer exists. He warns that expanding the law, as the government is about to do, will make Germany less competitive. As for Schr?der, backed by the unions but committed to growing his economy through tax reform and deregulation, planned changes to the works councils have him torn two ways...
...Institute of German Industry in Cologne says the proposed changes-expected to be approved by the lower house of parliament by August-will boost the amount companies spend on councils by 26%, to nearly $7 billion a year. UPS executive Gerd Schr?der says the move could hurt Germany's chances of attracting foreign investment. "No one in the U.S. understands how the country that already has the highest degree of co-determination in the world wants to increase that even more...
...develop trust with your works councils, they will work with you," says Jürgen R?der, director of U.S. automaker Ford's human resources in Germany. "When I tell my American counterparts how we were able to peacefully reduce wages on 40,000 workers a few years ago because they understood our dilemma, I get disbelief...