Germany: new step towards the introduction of sectoral minimum wage in surveillance

High wage increase in eastern Germany. Verdi says this collective agreement will first benefit security officers in new Länder, who will see their wages increase of nearly 33%. With these new basic wages, “a security officer in Magdeburg or Erfurt for instance will receive between €480 and €500 more each month” Ver.di said. For the sector’s employees in western Germany, the increase will be lower since minimum wages paid in these Lander are already much higher than in the east. For instance, they amount to €8.46 in Bade-Wurttemberg and €8 in Bavaria. In these two Lander, minimum wage will be slightly increased by January 1, 2013, to €8.90 in Bade-Wurttemberg and €8.42 in Bavaria.
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new Länder, who will see their wages increase of nearly 33%. With these new basic wages, “a security officer in Magdeburg or Erfurt for instance will receive between €480 and €500 more each month” Ver.di said. For the sector’s employees in western Germany, the increase will be lower since minimum wages paid in these Lander are already much higher than in the east. For instance, they amount to €8.46 in Bade-Wurttemberg and €8 in Bavaria. In these two Lander, minimum wage will be slightly increa

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