“That’s disrespectful’: Civil servants earn as little as citizens’ benefit recipients – and the traffic lights are watching. The background is a decision by the Federal Constitutional Court from May 2020.
At that time, the judges decided that the salaries of civil servants were sometimes not appropriate, especially when rent prices and the cost of living in large cities are taken into account. The federal government has been working on reform - at least theoretically. Salaries have already been adjusted at the state level, but federal civil servants have not yet been better off.