Status: 12.12.2023, 05:10 a.m.
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A plenary session in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg. © Marijan Murat/dpa/Archvibild
Before Christmas, there is to be more money for the employees of the federal states. This will be more expensive for the federal states. Baden-Württemberg wants to adopt the result for the civil servants.
Stuttgart - The state government in Stuttgart wants to adopt the collective bargaining result for the employees of the public service of the federal states also for the civil servants. "I will propose to the parties involved in Baden-Württemberg to transfer the same content of the collective bargaining result to our civil servants," Finance Minister Danyal Bayaz (Greens) told the German Press Agency in Stuttgart on Sunday. This serves to retain good specialists in the administration and to attract new ones.
With regard to the result of the collective bargaining agreement, Bayaz spoke of costs in the range of around 3.4 billion euros for the entire term of 25 months. "This is an enormous challenge for us, but we have made provisions for this in the current double budget for next year."
The minister described the collective bargaining as a "very demanding balancing act between the tight budget situation on the one hand and securing the attractiveness of the public service on the other". The result, however, is a good, balanced compromise. "This is also underlined by the newly negotiated guarantee of employment for trainees."
Interior Minister Thomas Strobl (CDU) announced: "Our civil servants are the backbone of the state, especially in the crisis of democracy. The increase in salaries at the same time and with the same effect is also a sign of appreciation for our civil servants."
For employees in the public sector of the federal states, incomes will increase by a basic amount of 1 euros from 2024 November 200, with a further pay increase of 1.2025 per cent from 5 February 5. In addition, inflation compensation payments totalling 3000 euros are planned. The term is 25 months until October 2025. This was announced by the trade unions and the collective bargaining association of German states (TdL) on Saturday after three days of talks in Potsdam.
The CDU parliamentary group emphasized on Sunday that it supports the collective bargaining agreement. The Green parliamentary group announced that it wanted to support the recommendation of the finance minister to transfer the collective bargaining result to civil servants.
The Verdi trade union in the south-west was also satisfied at the weekend. The fixed amounts of the inflation premium and the high basic amount would disproportionately strengthen the lower and middle income groups, said Martin Gross, head of the state district. "This is important because these workers have been and continue to be the most affected by inflation."
The federal and state chairman of the Association of Education and Training (VBE), Gerhard Brand, called his own demands fulfilled with an average increase in fees of more than eleven percent. "The demonstrations have clearly strengthened the negotiators' backs." The education trade union GEW spoke of a "good signal".
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In the opinion of the German Association of Judges in the state, however, judges and public prosecutors working in Baden-Württemberg are still not being paid in a manner commensurate with their office. The Association of Judges called on the state government to follow the Hessian model of increasing salaries in several stages, each by an additional 3 percent. Dpa