Employed teachers in Berlin are to receive disadvantage compensation of 300 euros per month from February 2023. The chairmen of the coalition factions in the Berlin House of Representatives agreed on this on Monday.

It is therefore about compensation for teachers who – for reasons of age, for example – cannot be civil servants or do not want to become civil servants. Employed heads of large schools should receive slightly less compensation at 250 euros.

The Education and Science Union (GEW) Berlin had demanded higher compensation for employed teachers, namely up to 900 euros per month. A counter-argument is that this is not possible within the framework of the collective agreement.

The chairmen of the coalition factions have now agreed to bring the draft of a “Disadvantage Compensation Act” into parliament this week. The regulation is to apply from February 1, 2023.

Berlin was the last federal state to decide to return to civil servants after an 18-year break. The first newly hired teachers were already employed in the summer. About a third of the approximately 34,000 teachers at Berlin schools are civil servants. The education administration assumes that around 16,000 employed teachers will soon be able to become civil servants.

Last week, the Senate passed a bill to raise the limit for teaching positions to 52 years of age. This should help to attract additional teachers and keep them in Berlin schools.

Around 5,000 employed teachers will still not be able to become civil servants, for example because they have exceeded the age limit.

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