Nursing staff is scarce.
The Munich clinic wants to keep nurses with an allowance.
But there is a dispute as to who should get the money.
The name says it all: the staff retention allowance is the name of the instrument with which the Munich Clinic wants to keep the existing nurses in these challenging times.
The supervisory board approved the payment already a year ago.
The amount at stake is the subject of ongoing negotiations.
Reason for the long procedure: The question of who should get the money has been a point of contention in the talks between the clinic and the works council for some time.
Not all carers should get an allowance
The management wants to send it to the nurses of the intensive care, children's intensive care and monitoring stations as well as the emergency centers for children and adults.
From the point of view of the works council, however, this is too small a group.
Among other things, staff in normal wards, outpatient clinics or surgical nurses with specialist training would not benefit.
There is a shortage of staff in all occupational groups in the hospital, according to a letter from the works council to the workforce that our newspaper has available.
From the point of view of the committee, the payment of the allowance to a small group is counterproductive and leads to resentment, demotivation and dismissals among the employees - and ultimately to a shortage of staff.
But while the committee calls for equal treatment for all nurses, the clinic management relies on the fact that bonus payments according to the watering can principle to all nurses are not legally possible under the valid collective agreement.
OB is disappointed with the course of the negotiations
Recently, the tone has become sharper.
Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD) intervened in the debate in his capacity as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Munich Clinic.
In a letter to the workforce, he wrote that he was disappointed that no agreement had been reached so far.
"When I read that the chair of the general works council apparently believes that we should either pay such an allowance to all nursing staff or none at all, then I find that not very conclusive and not helpful," says Reiter.
The mayor said to our newspaper: "I made it unmistakably clear on the supervisory board that every allowance that is legally possible should be granted for all of our nursing staff at the Munich clinic." The works council may find the payment of this allowance to certain groups counterproductive.
According to the management, a payment to all nursing staff is not possible.
According to Raphael Diecke, spokesman for the clinic, negotiations between management and the works council are continuing
CSU takes the clinic and the city to task
Hans Theiss, vice-chairman of the CSU parliamentary group in the city council and himself a doctor, says: "We have to pay significantly more for care, because clinics and politicians have a duty." A petty argument about who should get what, in any case, doesn't help anyone .
The CSU politician is also committed to paying the corona bonus to other nursing staff.
"You shouldn't be so petty about the corona bonus payments and exclude professional groups such as nursing assistants," says Theiss.
Apparently, Reiter also shares this view.
In a letter to Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach, he demanded that other professional groups should also receive the service, according to the mayor.
