Which employees now get the special payment?

Certain professions can soon look forward to a hefty Corona bonus. Who will receive a special payment in 2022? And how much money is in it?

Employers can register until March 31, 2022 tax-free corona bonus Pay up to 1,500 euros to their employees. This also applies to mini-jobbers*. In order for the surcharge to really remain tax-free, certain conditions apply. But who can look forward to such a special payment?

1. Corona bonus for public sector employees

Employees in the public sector in the federal states (apart from Hesse) will receive a tax and duty-free Corona special payment of up to March at the latest 1.300 Euro paid out. Apprentices, interns and student employees receive a Corona bonus of 650 euros. According to a report by the German Press Agency (dpa), more than a million employees are affected, including “in administration, in university hospitals, schools, day care centers, in the police and fire brigade, road maintenance, forestry and waste management companies.”

After separate negotiations between unions and employers, Hesse pays a corona bonus of 1.000 Euro to its state employees, the portal informs oeffentlicher-dienst-news.de.

Also read: Public Sector Salary: How Much Can I Earn?

2. Civil servants in Bavaria will receive a corona bonus in 2022

Not only the employees in the civil service of the federal states, but also the Bavarian civil servants receive a coronaSpecial payment of 1,300 euros. Bavaria wants to transfer the result of the collective agreement 1:1 to the civil servants in Bavaria, announced the Bavarian Finance Minister Albert Füracker (CSU) on November 29th dpa with.

3. Plans of the traffic light coalition: nurses should also receive a bonus

The traffic light coalition has spoken out in favor of a renewed bonus for all nursing staff, both in hospitals and nursing homes, because of the special burdens in the Corona crisis. She wants to make one billion euros available for this, she reports dpa. Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach has now commented specifically on the plans. Read here when the planned care bonus is to come and for whom.

Also read: Salary: how much do nurses earn?

4. Corona bonus in companies: Siemens, Adidas and Deutsche Post in discussion

According to information from BR.de The following companies should also pay out or plan a Corona special payment:

• German postal service: Scope of around 200 million euros for a total of 550,000 employees
• Siemens: up to 1,000 euros
• Adidas: worldwide up to 1,000 euros at Christmas 2020, depending on the purchasing power in the respective country.

According to information from the dpa, around 120,000 employees recently received Volkswagen (VW) and a total of around 55,000 employees of the energy companies Eon and RWE a corona bonus in the three-digit to four-digit range.

The employees in retail, who were particularly stressed during the pandemic, have already been given bonus payments. So should the black group to which Lidl and Kaufland belong, have already paid several bonuses in 2020 and 2021, according to a dpa report. The discounter Aldi south is said to have paid out corona bonuses three times in the form of special payments and goods vouchers, with employees in sales and logistics benefiting the most. The sister company Aldi Nord donated a goods voucher worth 250 euros in 2020. Even at the drugstore chain dm there were Corona special payments. According to dpa, in 2020 it was a total of 400 euros each in the form of a goods voucher and a special payment.

Haven’t received a Corona bonus yet?

If you don’t get a corona bonus by the end of March 2022, it will probably be tight to get hold of a special payment. For employees of certain industries and companies, however, there is still a legitimate chance of a Corona bonus. By the way, these professions currently offer the best salaries. You can also read the new Salary Report 2022 where the most money can be earned in Germany. (as) *Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.

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