Schwerin (dpa / mv) - The officials in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania get more money. The state parliament in Schwerin decided on Wednesday with a large majority to transfer the agreement agreed in the previous year for the employees of the states to the salary and pension payments of civil servants. Only the AfD parliamentary group abstained from voting.
The trade unions had agreed an income increase of 2.8 percent as of December 1, 2022 with the collective bargaining community of the federal states. The agreement runs until September 30, 2023. Unlike in previous years, civil servants in the north-east no longer have to accept a reduction in income growth of 0.2 percentage points - the transfer of the collective agreement is carried out in a timely manner and in line with the system. Police officers, judicial officers and teachers, among others, benefit from this. The family allowance is increased for lower salary brackets.
As the law further shows, the expenses for state civil servants for the coming year will increase by 35 million euros. How high the additional expenses for the state employees are is not mentioned there. According to the state budget, personnel costs are one of the state's highest expenditure items at around 2.3 billion euros a year.
