Doctors German university hospitals will receive more salary in the future. It increases in three stages by a total of 6.5 percent, as the medical union Marburger Bund announced. The regulation affects around 20,000 employees and will apply retrospectively from October 2019. In addition, from October 2020, doctors will have to provide a maximum of four on-call services in the calendar month and have two weekends off per month.
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After two days of negotiations with the collective bargaining community in Germany, the union spoke of a “respectable overall result”. The agreement was reached in the fourth round of negotiations. The Marburg Confederation’s committees still have to agree.
Duty schedules must be made at least six weeks in advance
“We have gone to the limit of what we still think is justifiable,” said Lower Saxony’s Finance Minister Reinhold Hilbers (CDU), the negotiator of the collective bargaining agreement. Because of the Corona virus the system must work absolutely reliably and not be put under pressure by industrial action.
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According to the agreement, the salary will increase retrospectively by October 1st by 2.5 percent, October 1st this year by 2.0 percent and October 1st 2021 again by 2.0 percent. In the future, more than four emergency services per month can only be ordered if there is a risk to patient safety.
In future, rosters must be made at least six weeks in advance. From July, working hours will be recorded electronically or using “other equally precise procedures”.
The collective agreement affects a large number of doctors at 23 of a total of 34 university hospitals. Berlin and Hesse have their own collective agreements. Special tariff regulations also apply to doctors at other individual university hospitals – for example at the University Hospital Hamburg, in Halle (Saale) and in Mainz.
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