The agreement establishes a uniform collective company agreement allowing the company to consolidate its position as the best employer in the sector. At the heart of the agreement is an amendment which builds on the existing collective company agreement, and will enable the company to continue moving towards competitive wages for all new employees while allowing regional differences to be taken into account. The new arrangements also allow the 13,000 DHL Delivery GmbH employees covered by the regional collective agreements for freight forwarding and logistics to be transferred to Deutsche Post AG's collective company agreement on July 1, 2019. 

"As we restructure our mail and parcel business in Germany, planning certainty is important not just for us as a company, but also for our employees - who are, after all, our most important asset. The agreement provides this certainty. Taken as a whole, the agreements reached enable us to boost our attractiveness as an employer while achieving a financially sustainable solution for the company," says Thomas Ogilvie, Board Member for HR and Labor Director, about the agreement.

Both sides agreed to extend the company's outsourcing moratorium on mail and combined mail and parcel delivery services, which was due to expire on March 31, 2019, to December 31, 2020.

Redundancy protection, which was due to expire at the end of 2019 under the old arrangements, was also extended to 31 December, 2022.