Tech Conference 2025
09:00 Friday, 11 April 2025
Register ASAP
Berlin Tech Workers Coalition will host the largest English speaking and tech worker-led conference in Germany, together with our trade unions ver.di B+B and IG Metall Berlin. We hosted it in 2022 and 2023 and are excited to organize it for a 3rd time!
Friday, 11 April 2025 is open for all Works Council members (registration required). As a Works Council training per BetrVG 37(6), you can do this training during working hours, and conference fee is paid by your employer. Register here: and find Works Council resolution template to send your members:
11 April Schedule
Time | Panel |
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09:00 | ☕️ Morning Check in |
09:30 | Introduction and Welcome |
10:00 | Parallel roundtables on current workplace issues, identification of common issues, exchange of experiences, best practices |
12:00 | 🥙 Lunch break (vegetarian/vegan food) |
13:00 | Workshop 1: Are “Performance Improvement Plans” (PiPs) even a thing in Germany? What are the employment law regulations and what is the role of the Works Council? |
13:00 | Workshop 2: Unions and works councils, what’s the difference? Legal framework for collaboration, union rights of works council members |
13:00 | Workshop 3: ESOPs, VSOPs and the role of the woco: What to do with employer offers stock options? |
14:30 | ☕️ Coffee break |
15:00 | Workshop 4: Return to Office and the Works Council: Works agreements on mobile work, Recent developments in jurisdiction |
15:00 | Workshop 5: The works council’s role in workplace downsizing scenarios (mass layoffs)n |
15:00 | Workshop 6: Codetermination on remuneration: What are the woco’s rights and what differences are there between the unions’ collective agreements and works agreements? |
16:30 | ☕️ Coffee break |
17:00 | Closing panel on workplace discrimination,the Gender Pay Gap and workers’ counter strategies |
18:30 | Reflection phase, next steps, end of conference |
19:30 | Get together 🕺🪩 |
Email us conference@techworkersberlin.com if you have questions!