After Hamburg, Lower Saxony is the second region to have found an agreement on a town scale. The negociations between the towns and Verdi in Bade-Würtemberg should also be brought to a conclusion. However, the Länder-conflict has reached deadlock.
Contrary to Hamburg’s agreement – which changes the working time of the officers according to their age and how many children they have – the agreement made in Lower Saxony is based on the different occupations. Therefore, the saving banks’...