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Employees of the Hesse public service demonstrate in front of the Ministry of the Interior at the start of collective bargaining in mid-February.
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In the third round, the state and the unions agreed on a collective agreement for public sector employees.
It also includes an inflation adjustment.
Bad Homburg - In the third round, the state of Hesse and the unions agreed on a collective agreement for public sector employees.
According to information from both sides on Friday, it includes a one-time tax-free inflation compensation of 3,000 euros, which is to be paid out in three tranches this year.
In addition, there will be an additional 200 euros per month in salary from February 2025, as well as 5.5 percent more salary from August 2025. The annual special payment will therefore be increased to 60 or 90 percent, depending on the pay group.
Other agreements include a higher allowance for specialists such as doctors and in the area of scientific and artistic employees, for whom there should be more permanent contracts.
The Hesse state ticket will be continued.
The collective bargaining parties in Bad Homburg had been negotiating since Thursday afternoon, and the negotiations began on February 14th.
The collective agreement runs for 24 months until January 31, 2026.
The agreement affects around 55,000 public sector employees in the country.
Including the civil servants to whom the outcome of the negotiations is to be transferred, there are more than 160,000 affected.
Hesse is the only federal state that is not a member of the employers' association Tarifgemeinschaft deutscher Länder (TdL).
The collective bargaining for Hessian state employees has therefore been conducted independently since the exit in 2004.
dpa