civil servants will benefit from a strong salary increase

The amount is substantial for the nearly 2.5 million public sector employees in Germany who work for both the state and local authorities: + 5.5% increase. And this, thanks, too, to weeks of social movements. The increase will take place from March 2024, but from next month there will be the payment in several tranches of exceptional inflation compensation for a total amount of 3,000 euros.

A hard-negotiated compromise

This agreement is the result of a harshly negotiated compromise with the unions, which demanded up to 10% wage increases in line with the peak of inflation recorded in Germany during the course of last year. The German government believes it has gone to the maximum of what it could do within the framework of budgetary constraints “difficult”explains the journalist from France Télévisions, Laurent Desbonnets, from Berlin (Germany).