Some employees have a 13th salary at the end of the year.
Now politicians are proposing that Christmas bonus payments should be given preference - the retail trade should benefit from this.
Some things could go differently this year.
While some employees worry whether there will be Christmas bonuses * in the Corona year, some politicians suggest that companies
pay out
the
Christmas bonus
this year
with the October salary
.
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Prefer Christmas bonus: support retail - fear of a second lockdown
The idea behind it: If employees receive their Christmas bonus earlier, they can do their
Christmas shopping
in the next few weeks.
This
supports
the
retail trade
and “should not fear a hopefully avoidable second lockdown before Christmas”, as the parliamentary group leader of the CDU Rhineland-Palatinate, Christian Baldauf, explained to the Bild newspaper.
The SPD member of the Bundestag Florian Post also sees this idea as a helpful step: "That would
relax
the situation in the
shopping areas during the Christmas business
and would be a great help for the stationary retail trade." There is a risk that people will buy from “anonymous online giants”.
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Pay out Christmas bonus earlier?
- Trade association reacts skeptically
As reported by the German Press Agency, the German
Trade Association
reacted cautiously to this suggestion from the politicians.
As CEO Stefan Genth explains, an early Christmas bonus payment would
not help
the shops in the city center
: "Unfortunately, many customers are currently avoiding shopping
trips
because they want to meet as few people as possible in Corona times."
In addition, people would prefer to save now -
uncertain future prospects
would make consumers prefer to keep their money together.
As support for trade, Genth sees
state aid as more effective
, such as the bridging
aid
, "which must be extended".
The
bridging
aid for companies that have been particularly hard hit by the corona was initially planned until the end of 2020, but is now to be extended by six months to June 30, 2021 according to the plan by Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier (CDU).
(mad / dpa)
* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editorial network.
Sources: Bild.de, dpa
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