New citizens' income: officials are demanding more wages - "16 billion is not the end of the West"
Created: 04/12/2022 04:54
By: Patricia Huber
The German civil servants' association is demanding more money as a result of the introduction of the citizen's allowance.
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With the new citizen's income, the gap to the salaries of civil servants is also shrinking.
The civil servants' union dbb doesn't think so at all and is demanding a surcharge.
Berlin – On January 1, 2023, the new citizens’ allowance will be launched.
With the Hartz IV reform, recipients also receive more money.
The standard rate will then increase from 449 euros to 502 euros in the new year.
But this increase could cost the state even more than previously thought.
Because the increase in basic security has now also called the civil servants' union onto the scene - they are now demanding more money.
Citizens' allowance: the head of the civil service association calls for at least 15 percent more
The German civil servants' association dbb has now asked politicians to significantly increase salaries.
"The salary must be at least 15 percent above the basic state security," said dbb boss Ulrich Silberbach on Thursday (December 2) of the German Press Agency in Berlin.
The case law of the Federal Constitutional Court is clear.
“The minimum distance requirement applies,” emphasized Silberbach.
Legislative adjustments at the federal and state levels for a more adequate salary for civil servants are overdue.
Silberbach had already
defended the wage claim to the
Handelsblatt in November.
"The cost of living has increased dramatically, and most of the employees work in the lower and middle service and are not paid like state secretaries," he justified the demand for at least 500 euros more for federal and local employees.
“In a short time, politicians mobilized 500 billion euros for corona aid, the German armed forces, relief packages and a brake on gas prices.
Even 16 billion would not be the end of the West.”
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More money for civil servants: union insists on wage gap to basic security
According to a report in the
Bild
newspaper, the planned wage gap of 15 percent will be undercut in a growing number of cases with the increase in basic security.
A spokesman for the Hessian Ministry of Finance told the newspaper: "Every change in the basic security has a direct impact on the salary and pensions in the civil service of the federal and state governments." The lower salary brackets are particularly affected.
"The German civil servants must behave in accordance with the constitution at all times," said Silberbach.
"Then you should be able to expect the same from your employers." At the Federal Ministry of the Interior there is a draft salary in the drawer, said Silberbach.
A spokesman for the interior department had told the
picture
that the “minimum distance to basic security” had to be ensured.
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In Hesse, a corresponding draft law is currently being discussed.
This marks "an important intermediate step towards constitutional remuneration in Hesse," said the ministry spokesman there.
According to the report, the Berlin state government said it was in intensive exchange with the other states and the federal government because of the introduction of citizen income, also with regard to possible effects on salaries.
(ph/dpa)
