[HIGHLIGHTS] VW has to reverse salary cuts – works council wins in court

VW has to reverse salary cuts – works council wins in court. VW is still open to clarifications from the labor courts on the scope of the BGH ruling.

The Lower Saxony State Labor Court has for the first time ruled in favor of a plaintiff employee representative. In February 2023, VW retroactively downgraded the 61-year-old plaintiff, who has been an exempt member of the works council in Wolfsburg since 2002, by two salary groups from October 2022. The state labor court now ruled that this was inadmissible.