There should actually be a corona bonus for caregivers for outstanding commitment.
But now the concept causes a lot of frustration.
There are more than 1000 lawsuits across Bavaria.
The Munich Administrative Court has negotiated several corona bonus lawsuits.
Several nurses in outpatient facilities, for example, received nothing.
The courts are currently dealing with more than 1000 such lawsuits across Bavaria.
Update from February 18, 6:36 p.m
.: The Munich Administrative Court has dismissed four lawsuits for the payment of the Corona care bonus.
Two employees of an outpatient dialysis center, a service assistant in a Munich hospital and a housekeeper in a nursing home had sued.
The State Office for Care (LfP) had rejected their applications for the bonus last year.
That was also legal, the court ruled on Thursday and referred to the Corona care bonus guideline (CoBoR), which is the basis for paying the bonus.
The State Office for Nursing only grants the bonus to professionally active nurses in certain facilities - and outpatient dialysis centers are not included.
Dispute over Corona bonus in Munich: judgment not yet final
From the court's point of view, the service assistant in the clinic and the housekeeper in the nursing home are not entitled to the bonus either.
Although the facilities in which they work are covered by the bonus directive, their specific activities are not.
The judgments are not yet final; the plaintiffs can appeal within a month after the written reasons for the judgment have been served.
In total, more than 1000 such complaints were received by the administrative courts in the Free State, 200 of them in Munich alone.
According to the Bavarian Ministry of Health, a total of 351,428 applications for the bonus of up to 500 euros had been received by the State Office for Care by the end of the application period on June 30th.
Of these applications, 12,293 were canceled - for example because the same applicant had submitted multiple applications.
65,065 applications were rejected - this corresponds to around 19 percent of all applications.
According to the ministry, a total of more than 117 million euros was paid out.
Munich: Anger about the Corona bonus goes to court - "Just want to be treated the same"
First report from February 17th: Munich - Thought as recognition, ended as injustice.
This is how the Corona care bonus can be summarized in Bavaria.
"It's just sad," said Christiane Dressler.
She is employed as a service assistant at the Großhadern hospital and does not get the bonus.
Your lawsuit was heard on Wednesday in the Munich Administrative Court.
It will probably be rejected.
The official decision will be announced on Thursday.
The lawsuits from Noemi Voigt and Katrin Fromholz-Wagner also have no chance.
For work in outpatient dialysis centers, they will not receive the 300 or 500 euros in the future, depending on the contractual working hours.
Corona nursing staff in Munich: "Some of the patients were the only reference person"
Since the beginning of the corona pandemic, Dressler and her around 50 colleagues in the service assistant have been working to the limit.
“Many don't even know what we're doing,” said Dressler.
Put on lotion, wash, make beds.
They receive the patients and help them unpack, bring food and drink.
“In the first lockdown, we were sometimes the patients' only caregiver.
On a normal day we go to each room about ten times. "
Not enough for the corona bonus.
The problem: The 58-year-old from Munich cannot provide any evidence from the employer that confirms her caring work.
Corona bonus: More than 200 lawsuits at the Munich Administrative Court
But this is exactly what the State Office for Care is calling for in order to pay the bonus that was voluntarily decided in spring 2020.
It was supposed to honor the outstanding commitment of the nursing and rescue workers, but is now fueling a lot of resentment.
More than 200 lawsuits have been filed with the Munich Administrative Court, and there are over 1000 across Bavaria.
Noemi Voigt, who works in Murnau am Staffelsee (Garmisch-Partenkirchen district), and Katrin Fromholz-Wagner, who works in the dialysis center in Ingolstadt-Etting, both trained as nurses.
The knockout criterion of their complaint is that they work in an outpatient and not in an inpatient facility.
Voigt shook his head several times during the negotiation.
“It's frustrating, we don't want to take anything away from anyone.
We just want to be treated equally, "said the 57-year-old.
She lets the decision sink in for now and then considers appealing.
