Overview

• Adidas has exited Germany’s tariff-bound employer association, switching to a non-tariff membership in its national employers’ federation.
• The decision continues the company’s post-Yeezy restructuring and cost-management efforts that began with up to 500 job cuts in March.
• Adidas assured that any wage increases negotiated in the current tariff round will still apply to its 4,600 tariff-bound employees.
• IG BCE condemned the move as “grob unsportlich” and “complete nonsense” and vowed to challenge Adidas’s unilateral control over pay and working conditions.
• The action places Adidas among a small minority of DAX-listed firms operating outside Germany’s collective bargaining framework.