Working time regulations

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Working hours regulations in the Federal Republic of Germany regulate the weekly working hours of civil servants and soldiers . As with other civil service law, it is not a matter of mutual agreements ( collective bargaining agreement , employment contract ), but rather unilateral requirements of the federal government (for federal civil servants) and the individual federal states (for state and municipal civil servants). In addition to the working time regulations for civil servants in a career in the non-technical administrative service, there are sometimes separate working time regulations for officials in the fire brigade and in the police enforcement service . The working time ordinances do not apply to judges and public prosecutors , they have no fixed working hours, but rather workloads (number of cases that have to be dealt with). Professors also have no fixed working hours.

Extension efforts

In recent years, the working hours, which at least in the old federal states had been 38.5 hours per week analogous to the working hours of employees in the German public service (new federal states 40 hours per week; federal government 40 hours per week), has been increased significantly (without wage compensation , in Bavaria, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia even wage cuts, since vacation pay is no longer available and the "Christmas bonus" is cut) (see table below). In addition, the working time reduction day (AZV day, also known as ZFT) has been deleted.

Overview

The working hours of civil servants are in accordance with the respective working time regulations (the start of the current regulation in brackets; federal states including municipal civil servants):

  • Federal government: generally 41 hours per week, except for severely disabled people and those who receive child benefit for children under 12 , who can apply for a reduction to 40 hours (valid since March 1, 2006); Civil servants with relatives in need of care can also request that their weekly working hours be reduced to 40 hours.
  • Baden-Württemberg: 41 hours per week (since September 1, 2003)
  • Bavaria: 40 hours per week (from September 1, 2004 to July 31, 2012: 42 hours per week, from the beginning of the 51st to the completion of the 60th year of life 41 hours, from the beginning of the 61st year of life 40 hours; however, the return is in a transition period 40 hours per week also for under 50-year-olds decided by way of a tiered solution: The weekly working hours will be reduced by one hour on August 1, 2012 and August 1, 2013; from the age of 50, this has been 40 since August 1, 2012 Weekly hours.)
  • Berlin: 40 hours per week (since August 1, 2003)
  • Brandenburg: 40 hours per week (since 1990)
  • Bremen: 40 hours per week (since June 1, 1997)
  • Hamburg: 40 hours per week (since August 1, 2002)
  • Hessen: 42 hours per week, one hour per week has been credited to a lifetime working time account since 2007 (possibility to retire earlier); from the beginning of the 51st to the completion of the 60th year of age 41 hours; from the beginning of the 61st year of life and for severe disabilities 40 hours (since January 1, 2004)
  • Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: 40 hours per week (since 1990)
  • Lower Saxony: 40 hours per week (since April 1, 1996)
  • North Rhine-Westphalia: 41 hours per week; from the age of 55: 40 hours; for severe disabilities with GdB from 50 to less than 80: 39 hours and 50 minutes; from the age of 60 and in the case of severe disabilities with a GdB of at least 80: 39 hours (since August 29, 2009)
  • Rhineland-Palatinate: 40 hours per week (since January 1, 1997)
  • Saarland: 40 hours per week (since January 1, 2001)
  • Saxony: 40 hours per week (since 1990)
  • Saxony-Anhalt: 40 hours per week (since 1990)
  • Schleswig-Holstein: 41 hours per week, for severely disabled people 40 hours (since August 1, 2006)
  • Thuringia: 40 hours per week (since August 1, 2005)

soldiers

Since January 1, 2016, the Soldiers Working Hours Ordinance has regulated the regular weekly working hours for soldiers in the Bundeswehr in "basic operations".

Web links

General

Regulations

Federal law

State law

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vacation pay . Website of the State Office for Salaries and Supply NRW. Retrieved March 21, 2013.
  2. ↑ Christmas bonus / special payment . Website of the State Office for Salaries and Supply NRW. Retrieved March 21, 2013.
  3. ↑ Section 14, Paragraph 1, Clause 1 of Bavaria's Working Hours Ordinance