€150 per month demand in municipal hospitals

Germany

The public services union ver.di is calling for a monthly payment of €150 for all employees in municipal hospitals. The union argues that higher public transport and fuel costs have combined with a change to federal taxation on travel costs to make it more expensive for people to get to work and the monthly lump sum will compensate for this. Ver.di is also calling on the municipal hospitals to abide by the public sector collective agreement. It claims that hospitals are undermining the agreement in a number of ways, for example by not paying part timers and trainees shift pay, by not paying holiday premiums, and by not applying the overtime rules properly and paying overtime premiums.
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