Christmas bonus at Kaufland and Lidl: Employees receive an additional bonus
Created: 11/23/2022, 8:00 p.m
By: Lisa Klein, Dominik Jahn
At Kaufland and Lidl, employees can also look forward to a Christmas bonus in 2022.
The companies in the Schwarz Group are also planning to use the inflation compensation premium for this.
Grocery retailers have repeatedly faced major challenges in recent weeks and months.
There is also plenty of criticism, as
echo24.de
reports.
Many experts see companies like Kaufland and Lidl as price drivers in the crisis.
With all problems with deliveries and energy costs, there should be a Christmas bonus for the employees again in 2022.
As the United Service
Union verdi
writes, the collective Christmas bonus in retail is 62.5 percent of the individual collective wage.
The food giants from the Schwarz Group are members of the employers' associations and, as in previous years, want to adhere to the collective agreements.
According to Kaufland and Lidl, in 2021 it was also between 50 and 62.5 percent of the standard salary.
As Lidl confirms on
echo24.de
demand, the state-appointed inflation compensation premium for the Christmas bonus should now also be used.
Kaufland and Lidl use inflation bonuses for employees' Christmas bonuses
The federal government has already launched various emergency aids in response to the energy crisis - and made an inflation compensation bonus possible: Employers can pay out up to 3,000 euros to their employees free of tax and social security contributions.
Company: | Kaufland |
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Headquarters: | Neckarsulm |
Founding: | 1984, Neckarsulm |
Industry: | food retail |
However, it should be emphasized that by far not all employees in Germany will receive such a bonus.
Because: The inflation premium is based on a voluntary basis.
Employees have no legal right to it.
The Schwarz Group, which also owns the companies Lidl and Kaufland, is setting a good example.
Kaufland and Lidl employees receive a EUR 250 inflation compensation bonus
The Schwarz Group is distributing a total of 40 million euros to its employees.
"The retail divisions Lidl and Kaufland, Schwarz production, the environmental division PreZero, Schwarz services as well as Schwarz IT and Schwarz Digital give their employees an inflation compensation bonus of 250 euros, marginal part-time workers receive 75 euros," says a press release.
Around 175,000 pay scale employees of the companies belonging to the Schwarz Group in Germany receive the additional benefit, regardless of whether they work full-time or part-time.
"With this special service, we would like to give our employees financial support in these challenging times and alleviate the current high financial burden a little," explains Gerd Chrzanowski, general partner of the Schwarz Group
In addition to Kaufland and Lidl, Aldi and Edeka also want to pay Christmas bonuses
At Lidl, Schwarz Produktion, Schwarz dienstleistungen, Schwarz IT and Schwarz Digital, the payscale employees receive the inflation adjustment premium as part of the November payroll as an additional payment.
Kaufland and PreZero will be given goods vouchers of the same value to employees in November.
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And employees at Aldi Süd and Edeka will also receive a Christmas bonus again in 2022.
However, Aldi Süd only states to the Stuttgarter Nachrichten and Stuttgarter Zeitung that the employees
are “usually”
paid a salary that exceeds the collective agreement.
Holiday and Christmas bonuses have always been added to this.
Also Edeka
according to the report, does not want to give any specific figures, because the majority of the stores are operated by independent traders, who are responsible for the remuneration.
