Caritas calls for a quick government negotiations for social solutions!

Caritas calls for a quick government negotiations for social solutions!

Vienna, January 03, 2025-After the negotiations for a triple coalition between the ÖVP, SPÖ and Neos, Caritas President Nora Tödtling-Musenbichler called for a rapid resumption of government negotiations. "The people in this country rightly expect that the current major challenges are being accepted and creating concrete solutions for the future," she said in a press release. In view of the alarming economic situation and the climate crisis, it is essential for Caritas to initiate structural reforms and investments as quickly as possible in order to meet the most urgent topics such as the inflation, the formation of disadvantaged children and the shortage of skilled workers in care, continued Tödtling-Musenbichler.

The upcoming tariff round of the German Caritas Association is also related to the current situation. Here, employees are calling for an eight percent salary increase as well as additional services such as 200 euros more for trainees and three days off. The representatives of the staff see themselves as responsibility to improve working conditions for around 750,000 employees, as Oliver Hölters, spokesman for the employee on the employment law commission. These demands alone are intended to ensure that Caritas employees are not left behind by real wage development. However, the reaction of the employers remained skeptical; They rejected the salary claims with reference to the tense financial situation. The negotiations could therefore be crucial for the future ability of the German Caritas Association, as the organization itself indicates.

Kathpress reported that Tödtling Musenbichler asks politics to meet their responsibility and to act quickly. Based on this, the Caritas Association found that an increase in salaries by 8 percent was not portable against the background of the financial situation, which also underlines the urgency of these discussions.