Only two rounds of negotiations were necessary to perfect the collective bargaining agreement for the public service.
The degree in Hesse could serve as a blueprint for the ongoing talks between the collective bargaining community of the federal states.
Dietzenbach - Public service workers in the state of Hesse get more money. At the second round of negotiations in Dietzenbach (Offenbach district), the state and unions agreed on a gradual increase in salaries for the 45,000 employees with a total volume of 4.0 percent, as the Interior Ministry announced on Friday. In addition, there are special payments totaling 1000 euros. The term of the collective agreement is 28 months. Both sides spoke of difficult negotiations that had lasted late into the night.
The collective bargaining result stipulates that salaries will rise by 2.2 percent from August next year.
A further increase of 1.8 percent or at least 65 euros is planned from August 2023.
There are also two special payments for employees of 500 euros each for the current and the coming year.
The second special payment is to be paid by March 2022.
Verdi, together with other unions, went into negotiations with the demand for five percent more money, but at least 175 euros.
Before the crucial talks, there had been protests across the country for several days.
Several thousand people took part.
The biggest campaigns were in Wiesbaden, Kassel, Gießen and Darmstadt.
Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) spoke on Friday of a fair compromise for the employees and the state of Hesse. Due to the corona pandemic, the country has lower income and higher expenditure. Economic expectations have recently been revised downwards. At the same time, the price increases hit the employees. "To achieve a collective agreement in this environment was really very, very difficult," said Beuth. Among other things, regulations for the expansion of the home office and for advanced training in matters of digitization have also been agreed. This helps Hessen in the competition for skilled workers with other federal states.
Verdi negotiator Christine Behle said it was a collective bargaining result in difficult times.
The country was burdened by the corona pandemic and the employees by the high rate of inflation.
Bringing the two together worked well, even if the result did not meet the union's expectations in every point.
Verdi would have wished for a shorter term, an earlier increase and a greater plus.
Major steps have been taken elsewhere to achieve this.
In the fight against the shortage of young talent, an unlimited takeover for trainees with a final grade of 3 and higher was agreed, as well as an improved classification after successfully completing their training.
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The result is to be transferred to the officials.
The Beamtenbund (dbb) also emphasized that the degree offers young people prospects - so that the state can make them an offer in competition with the private sector.
Also at the table were the police union (GdP), the IG Bauen-Agrar-Umwelt (IG BAU) and the education and science union (GEW).
The latter emphasized that a collective agreement had been reached to classify the approximately 11,000 salaried teachers in the country.
So far there has only been one state decree in Hesse.
In 2004, Hesse was the only federal state to leave the collective bargaining association of the federal states (TdL) and has been negotiating independently since then.
In the meantime, the other federal states have also started the collective bargaining round with the unions.
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