The German Association of Civil Servants (DBB) continued its trade union day in Berlin on Tuesday.
Many delegates had previously hoped that Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) would use his visit to send a signal to public sector employees.
The DBB national chairman Ulrich Silberbach said in the presence of the chancellor that the DBB had "painfully missed his leadership again and again" in the past year.
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The civil servants could not understand why the federal government had not yet implemented the salary adjustment called for by the Federal Constitutional Court in 2020.
In addition, “the workflow in the administrations is still very anti-digital”.
Even if administrative files for citizens are offered on the Internet, in many places this means that employees still have to carry "mountains of paper" through the corridors of the authorities.
In his speech, which lasted only 15 minutes, the Federal Chancellor addressed both points – without being specific.
He agreed with Silberbach that a "digital application should not be followed by an analog process".
The amendment to the federal salary law will come – but in what way he did not say.
The topic will remain with the newly elected DBB federal management.
The governing body of the association has changed as a result of the elections on Monday.
With the re-election of Silberbach and his two full-time deputies, Friedhelm Schäfer and Volker Geyer, the delegates set a sign of continuity.
Subsequently, Jürgen Böhm, the national chairman of the Realschule teachers' association, did not succeed in defending his previous position as honorary DBB vice.
He had previously run unsuccessfully against Silberbach.
In the future, the teachers will be represented by Simone Fleischmann, President of the Bavarian Teachers' Association.
She received the best result of the six honorary vice-chairs.