Press release No. 383 of 25 October 2016
WIESBADEN – In 2014, roughly 45% of the employees in Germany worked in businesses bound by collective agreements, that is, in businesses subject to either a branch-specific collective agreement (41%) or a company agreement (4%). Based on the results of the structure of earnings survey, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the proportion of businesses subject to collective agreements was just under 15% in 2014.