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Bahn employees at Cologne Central Station: 1.5 percent more salary
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Deutsche Bahn and the Railway and Transport Union (EVG) have agreed on a new collective agreement.
Accordingly, wages and salaries at the highly indebted state company will rise by 1.5 percent at the beginning of 2022.
Until the end of the term at the end of February 2023, operational dismissals are excluded, announced EVG and Deutsche Bahn.
You spoke of a contribution to coping with and protection against the corona crisis.
Should there be a second wave of the epidemic with contact and exit restrictions in Germany, a so-called corona package will also apply to employees in the future.
According to EVG, you can then stay at home for up to 50 days for childcare and up to 20 days for caring for relatives.
Another new feature is a "Mobility & Work" fund with an annual 25 million euros.
In view of rising rents and longer commutes, employees should be able to apply for help.
Allowances have also been agreed for employees who train new colleagues.
For the 6,000 bus employees at Deutsche Bahn, wages will rise by 2.6 percent in 2021 and by 1.5 percent in 2022.
You also receive 1,000 euros once.
Deutsche Bahn employs almost 215,000 people in Germany.
In the past wage rounds, some significantly higher income increases were achieved for them.
This year, however, the corona crisis and the resulting dramatic drop in passenger numbers led to a billion-dollar loss for the railways, and the scope for higher wages was correspondingly less.
In return for state aid, Deutsche Bahn had promised to gradually save around two billion euros on staff by 2024.
The federal government has so far committed five billion euros in additional equity.
Unlike the Union of German Locomotive Drivers (GDL), the EVG had therefore agreed to bring forward collective bargaining.
"It's not about wanting more. It's about taking responsibility in difficult times," said the deputy EVG chairman Klaus Dieter-Hommel.
Income rose moderately but steadily.
The losses as a result of the pandemic could be alleviated by the collective agreement, said the railway.
Martin Seiler, Chief Human Resources Officer, said: "That gives us scope to advance topics of the future."
This is how the so-called recruitment offensive should continue.
After 25,000 this year, 18,000 new people are to be hired in the next two years.
After deducting departures, the workforce would grow by around 2000 in 2021 and 2022. The personnel issue was the red line of collective bargaining, according to the EVG.
She spoke of a success.
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