Nikolaus Schöch

More than 700,000 of the lay faithful are employed by the institutions and works of the Catholic Church in Germany. In that context, the so-called “third way” was developed in order to provide a regulatory system for the drafting of collective labor agreements between ecclesiastical employers and their employees (catholic or not). This “third way” foresees a resolution to the inevitable competing interests arising from the Regulatory Commission for the Contractual Rights of Diocesan Workers – composed equally of employers and employees for an equilibrium of interests – rather than arising unilaterally from employers or from the intervention of labor unions...