Rostock breathes a sigh of relief: million-dollar loan secures salaries for city employees!

Rostock breathes a sigh of relief: million-dollar loan secures salaries for city employees!

Rostock breathes a sigh of relief! The city's municipal employees can breathe a sigh of relief after Rostock's citizens approved a loan application for eleven million euros today, November 19, 2025. This step ensures that the approximately 2,700 employees will receive their salaries for November and December as well as the annual special payment on time. Loud Northern Courier It was already obvious in April 2025 that the planned budget volume of 389 million euros for 2024/25 was not enough to cover personnel costs.

The reason for this financial hole lies in several factors: A new collective agreement in the public sector and increased employer contributions due to the nursing care insurance reform have led to the unexpectedly high costs. However, Thoralf Sens, the SPD parliamentary group leader, questions why these additional funds were not requested earlier, while the CDU district association sees a loss of control by Mayor Eva-Maria Kröger (Left). Christian Konarski, the chairman of the CDU, makes it clear that the responsibility for paying salaries clearly lies with the mayor. In order to live up to this responsibility, it has already taken action and dismissed a senior employee.

Collective bargaining and salary increases

At another level, there is also an important development across the public service. The Ministry of the Interior recently gave the signal for the TVöD salary increases to be paid out in the federal government. How Public Service News reported, the salary increases, which apply retroactively to April 1, 2025, will only be paid out as soon as the corresponding collective bargaining regulations have been integrated into the systems of the individual municipalities. The exact timing of these payouts is still unclear.

For cities like Rostock, this means that they have to wait for the guidelines from the federal level before they can take action themselves. Trade unions are already criticizing the delays caused by the lengthy editorial negotiations. Among other things, it is criticized that the increased fees could actually have been paid earlier. Concerns about the timely payment of salaries are not only loud in Rostock, but in many cities in Germany.

The world of public service is currently a rather complex structure, where both local and federal decisions have a major influence on the financial concerns of employees. Let's hope that there will be clarity and timely payouts so that employees can look not only at their wages, but also at a worry-free future.