Around 130,000 Deutsche Post employees who are covered by a collective-bargaining agreement will receive a 3.1 per cent pay raise on 1st August this year, as well as a further 2.6 per cent rise on 1st October 2014.
The move comes after negotiations regarding the collective-bargaining were conducted by the German services union ver.di and Deutsche Post AG.
The company’s apprentices will also receive a 6.1 per cent increase in pay, retroactive of 1st April 2013.