Many companies try to prevent a works council - especially medium-sized, owner-managed ones. Federal Minister of Labor Heil should reintroduce a duty. source site
from Dieter SurigFrom the point of view of the three Sixt employees, the lawsuit before the Regional Labor Court (LAG) in Düsseldorf was worthwhile. The women had previously been terminated without notice by the Pullach car rental company in 2021, among other things because of multiple tardiness and trespassing. This was at a time when they were in the process of founding the company's first works council in the Sixt branch at Düsseldorf Airport. After the LAG declared the dismissals...
Sometimes big things are best explained in small ways. "I should also lose a few kilos, but I just like to eat too much," says Martin Daum, head of truck manufacturer Daimler Truck, describing the dilemma many German companies face on the way to climate neutrality. He is convinced that they all want to become sustainable, and that everything is technically feasible, but the implementation doesn't really want to happen that quickly. For his industry, the automotive industry, Daum can...
Sixt and works council? This has not happened before, but could change soon. The regional labor court in Düsseldorf on Tuesday received several notices of dismissal against three Sixt employees. The rental car group announced this last year after the women who worked at the Sixt branch at Düsseldorf Airport wanted to set up a works council. Sixt rejects a connection, but even the court let it be known "that it is not about breaches of contract," says Verdi union...
Rental location, rental period, risk of damage: So far, every Sixt car has the same insurance. That is about to change, and customers should also benefit from it.Rental cars that have not found any customers and are therefore in the multi-storey car park actually do not need insurance for that day. For those who are on the street, the risk in turn depends heavily on the type of use, the rental period and other criteria. With the help of precise...
Just a few years ago, car rental company Erich Sixt made no secret of what he thought of electrically powered vehicles: "I don't give e-cars any future," he said in 2018, describing them as a political mistake, also because of the short range. "The climate discussion is outside the reality of business," Sixt said later, the customer would rather drive diesel. His sons are now running the day-to-day business, and the general conditions for e-cars have also changed quite a...
In contrast to Putin, the world's car renters continue to step on the gas. A few men and women in Pullach are also happy about this. The car rental company Sixt, which is based in the district of Höllriegelskreuth, is heading for a record profit this year, according to the agencies. The family-run group benefits “from high rental car prices and catch-up effects when traveling after the end of the corona restrictions”. After the current best half-year result in the...
The car rental company had drastically reduced its fleet during the pandemic. Demand is now greater than supply, prices are rising - and Sixt is experiencing the most successful first half of the company's history.For years, the Germans could hardly move into the world because of the corona pandemic, now they seem to want to relieve the pent-up wanderlust and catch up on everything. However, the increased demand leads to new shortages - and higher prices. The Pullach car rental...
The car rental company Sixt also wants to get involved in the Canadian rental car market in the future. Stations in Vancouver and Toronto are to be opened in May and June, according to the Pullach-based company. They want to open their own company for the Canadian market. The car rental company plans to achieve a three to five percent market share in Canada by 2025/2026. Overall, there is a market potential of around 1.4 billion euros in the country....
The US car rental company Hertz wants to buy up to 65,000 electric cars from the Swedish-Chinese manufacturer Polestar in the next five years. In Europe, the first vehicles would be delivered in the spring, in North America and Australia at the end of the year, both companies announced on Monday. Polestar is owned by the Chinese Geely Group and its Swedish subsidiary Volvo and is manufactured in China. Hertz will initially order Polestar 2 vehicles, a midsize sedan with...
