Status: 01/13/2023 2:14 p.m
For more than 800,000 employees in temporary work there is a wage increase of up to 13 percent in two stages. The DGB collective bargaining community agreed on this today with the employers.
Temporary workers will receive more money in the future. The collective bargaining community of the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) has agreed with the employers’ associations BAP and iGZ to increase wages in two steps, as both parties announced today.
Depending on the salary group, employees get up to 13.1 percent more per hour. The first increase will apply from April 1, the second from January 1, 2024. The term of the new wage agreement is twelve months.
“Real improvement” for contract workers
“The increases in the wage table that have now been decided are a real improvement for the employees in the industry,” said DGB board member and chief negotiator Stefan Körzell. He spoke of tough negotiations in several rounds.
The chief negotiator on the employer side also rated the result positively: “Although it massively increases the fixed costs for us as an employer in hiring out employees, it fits in with the times because we are all aware that given the current inflation rates for the employees we employ need a good solution,” says Sven Kramer, CEO of PEAG Personal.
Salary increase for salary groups 3 to 9
Salaries in salary groups 3 to 9 were specifically negotiated. Tariff increases for salary groups 1, 2a and 2b were already agreed in June 2022. Employees are assigned to pay groups based on their job.
Pay group 3 includes, for example, “performing activities that require a completed at least two-year vocational training”. From April 1, employees in this group will receive 14.55 euros per hour. At the beginning of next year, the increase will finally total 13.07 percent to 15.06 euros.
In salary group 8 (activities that require a degree from a university of applied sciences) it will be EUR 23.97 from April. From 2024 it will be a total of 9.18 percent more and thus 24.69 euros per hour.
More than 800,000 people in Germany affected
Temporary work is the only sector in which all eight member trade unions of the German Trade Union Confederation conduct collective bargaining as a collective bargaining community for temporary work. The federal employers’ association of personnel service providers and the interest group of German temporary employment agencies are negotiating on the employers’ side.
According to the DGB, the collective agreements affect around 98 percent of temporary workers nationwide. Converted, there is now a wage increase for over 800,000 employees as a result of the agreement.
For the lowest tariff groups 1 and 2, multi-stage increases of up to 24 percent had already been agreed in June 2022 from October 2022 in order to raise wages above the new statutory minimum wage of twelve euros. In the lowest wage group 1, the hourly wage is currently 12.43 euros.