Works councils and job architecture projects

I would not reopen 600 mappings wholesale. Offer a sample. We agreed with ours that they would pick 80 roles of their choosing, and that if more than 10 percent turned out wrongly mapped we would widen the review. Seven were changed. That gave them real control without restarting the project.

Check with your labour counsel which parts fall under co-determination and which do not, because in our project that distinction shaped everything. Our understanding was that the principles of the remuneration scheme needed agreement while individual market pricing did not. The council saw it differently, and we spent three sessions on that alone.

Tech company, with a young works council first elected in 2023. Their concern was less the mappings and more what the levels would be used for. Once we wrote into the agreement that nobody's pay would be reduced as a result of a mapping, and that pay above the new range would be protected for 24 months, the tone changed.