Shake-up looms for German workers’ board role

Article reports that the German government was planning to overhaul rules allowing workers a role in corporate decision-making, in a move that could shake one of the pillars of the country's postwar economic model. Any changes to Germany's system of power-sharing, which gives employee representatives half the seats on the supervisory boards of large companies, would be highly controversial, although officials indicated that Chancellor Gerhard Schröder had already won the backing of both business and trade unions for a reform of the rules.