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Christmas bonus check: This is how trainees in Bonn secure the special payment!
Find out why and how employees in Bonn should check their entitlement to Christmas bonuses - especially trainees and mini-jobbers.
Christmas bonus check: This is how trainees in Bonn secure the special payment!
The Christmas season is approaching in Bonn and with it the question of Christmas bonuses. The Food, Pleasure and Restaurants Union (NGG) is calling on all employees, including trainees and mini-jobbers, to check their entitlement to this special payment. “Bosses often forget to pay out the Christmas bonus, even though it is contractually guaranteed,” emphasizes Marc Kissinger from NGG Cologne. According to the NGG, mini-jobbers in companies that pay Christmas bonuses are also entitled to this bonus if it is linked to working hours. In bakeries, for example, the Christmas bonus for full-time employees is between 250 and 550 euros, depending on length of service, as Kissinger explains. The Christmas bonus is usually paid out together with the November salary, but not every employee is legally entitled to it.
Collective agreement and Christmas bonus
A current evaluation by the Economic and Social Sciences Institute (WSI) shows frightening figures: Only 52 percent of all employees receive a Christmas bonus - the decisive factor here is collective bargaining. In companies covered by collective agreements, an impressive 77 percent can count on the special bonus, while in companies not covered by collective agreements, only 41 percent receive a Christmas bonus. The NGG is actively committed to closing this discrepancy in the relevant industries, because without a collective agreement, employees usually have no legal right to a Christmas bonus, as can be seen from the information from NGG emerges.
The differences become further visible when you look at the regional and gender-specific aspects: While 53 percent of employees in West Germany receive Christmas bonuses, in East Germany it is only 41 percent. For women the rate is 48 percent, while 54 percent of men receive a Christmas bonus. The NGG therefore calls for greater collective bargaining, especially in sectors with a high proportion of women, in order to eliminate these inequalities.