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Associations and unions have long been calling for the capital city allowance to also be paid to certain employees outside of state service.
Now the CDU is announcing an alternative variant.
Berlin - Many employees of independent agencies in Berlin could soon have more money in their wallets.
The country grants them a so-called social and educational allowance of 130 euros per month, as CDU parliamentary group leader Dirk Stettner told the German Press Agency on Tuesday.
Providers that receive grants from the state can now submit applications for the corresponding financial compensation to the responsible approval offices.
This also applies to a tax-free inflation compensation bonus totaling 3,000 euros.
According to Stettner, around two thirds of the so-called grant recipients benefit from the social and educational allowance, which is paid up to a certain salary level.
These include, for example, educators, social workers or educators in independent daycare centers or after-school care centers, but also employees in advice centers of social organizations.
The allowance should not be confused with the so-called capital allowance of 150 euros per month, which many employees and civil servants in Berlin's public sector have been receiving since November 2020.
Only very high salary groups are excluded here.
Recently, trade unions and associations of independent providers vehemently demanded that this capital allowance also be paid for their employees because they also kept Berlin running.
Stettner rejected this and referred to the result of collective bargaining for the state public sector last year.
This ensures, among other things, the preservation of the capital city allowance for Berlin state employees in its existing form.
“Demands to expand the capital city allowance to the independent provider landscape overlook the fact that such an expansion could not be enforced in the collective bargaining community of the states and would lead to the achieved negotiation success for the state employees being massively jeopardized.” dpa