Collective Bargaining Association of German States

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The employers association of German states ( TdL ) is established in 1949 Employers' Association of the civil service . With the exception of Hesse (resigned in 2004), it represents the federal states in collective bargaining with the unions . The Lower Saxony Finance Minister Reinhold Hilbers has been chairman of the TdL Board of Directors since February 4, 2020 at the suggestion of the Conference of Finance Ministers .

Collective agreements in the public service of the federal states

Until 2003, the employment relationships in the federal, state and local governments were regulated in joint collective agreements, the best known being the Federal Employees Collective Agreement (BAT). Since the millennium, the public sector unions negotiated (next Ver.di and the Civil Service Association and the Marburger Bund , the Union for Education and Science , the police union and the Trade Union for Construction, Agriculture and Environment ) with the TdL, the Interior Ministry and the Association the municipal employers' associations on a new collective agreement that all employee groups (the first time workers and employees should cover).

However, after the TdL had unilaterally terminated the working hours and vacation / Christmas bonus tariffs for state employees, the unions were no longer willing to negotiate a joint successor contract for the BAT with the TdL. In the course of those disputes, Hesse also left, which the then Prime Minister Roland Koch justified by stating that the structure of the TdL was “no longer suitable for achieving reasonable results”.

The new collective agreement for the public service (TVöD) therefore came into force on October 1, 2005 only for federal and municipal employees. In the area of ​​the federal states, the collective agreement for the public service of the federal states (TV-L), which has largely the same content, has been in effect since November 1, 2006 , on which the TdL agreed with the ver.di and dbb unions on May 19, 2006 . Since then, the TdL has concluded a number of other contracts for special professional groups (e.g. doctors).

Temporary exclusion of Berlin

In 1994, the State of Berlin was excluded from the TdL because, contrary to the TdL principles at the time, it insisted on applying the remuneration regulations for West Germany in the former East Berlin . After an adjustment collective agreement for the application of the TV-L was agreed between the state of Berlin and the trade unions in 2010, Berlin was re-admitted to the TdL on January 1, 2013.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tariff Association of German States TdL: No. 1/2020: Finance Minister Reinhold Hilbers (Lower Saxony) new chairman of the board of the TdL; Finance Senator Dr. Matthias Kollatz (Berlin) and State Minister of Finance Hartmut Vorjohann (Saxony) elected as deputies. Retrieved March 30, 2020 .
  2. ^ Countries urge service reform: - WELT. Retrieved February 3, 2017 .
  3. ↑ collective agreements | Collective Bargaining Association of German States (TdL). Retrieved March 30, 2020 .
  4. ↑ TdL press release on the re-entry of Berlin. December 12, 2012, accessed February 3, 2017 .