Gabi Schmidt has been fighting for EPO workers and she can be contacted at gabi.schmidt@fw-landtag.de

"The EP-office [EPO] is reducing staff representation," one comment said yesterday, "and increases the number of employees per line manager ("large directorates", "super-clusters"). [...] In a combination not a good idea, according to a study. The study compares companies in different countries, presence of staff representation, education levels of employees, and how many employees per manager are present. Result: high education and internal promotions lead to the employees working independently without the need of much supervision, thus needing less managers. This effect gets lost though, if no effective staff representation is present."

Bavarian Parliament will discuss the EPO situation tomorrow, as we noted earlier this week. We, in the mean time, are preparing for the release of new documents about the EPO. Due to some important news in the US, notably cases such as TC Heartland, we have lacked sufficient time to cover the EPO so far this week. Documents can still be anonymously sent for us to study and write about. ⬆