The state of Hesse and the unions have reached a collective agreement for the public service. The agreement affects around 55,000 public sector employees in the country.
Hesse is the only federal state that is not a member of the employers' association Tarifgemeinschaft deutscher Länder (TdL) The collective bargaining for Hessian state employees has been conducted independently since the exit in 2004. Including the civil servants to whom the outcome of the negotiations is to be transferred, there are more than 160,000 affected.