TVöD-K for hospitals and nursing facilities

TVöD-K Part I – General provisions for hospitals and care facilities

• Scope of application.
• Structure and systematics of labor law.
• Employee obligations: duty to work, ancillary obligations, special provisions for physicians.
• Qualification: General, physicians.
• Business trips.
• Establishment of the employment relationship.
• Part-time work: Determination and official matters.
• Obligation to pay remuneration: remuneration group, classification, remuneration regulations, automatic wage indexation.
• Temporary transfer to a higher-level position.
• Remuneration and salary scale (general practitioners).
• Performance-related pay § 18 and 18a TVöD-K: General information, budget, types of remuneration, target agreements, alternative remuneration incentive system.
• Annual bonus.
• Vacation rights.
• Repayment obligation.
• Employees in nursing and MFAs: Preliminary remarks, classification (academic, senior, academic senior) nursing staff, allowances, MFAs.
• Remuneration components: capital-forming benefits, anniversary bonus, death benefit, travel and relocation expenses, calculation and payment, employment reference.
• Contractual continued employment of retirees.
• Summary of special features for physicians, including the 2025 collective agreement with Marburger Bund.
• Collective agreement for TVöD-K doctors.
• Overview – Employment of foreign nationals, work and residence permits.

TVöD-K Part II – Working hours in hospitals and care facilities

• Working Hours Act and scope of application.
• Average regular weekly working hours, breaks, rest periods/rest time, average period.
• Non-regular working hours.
• Weekday holiday work/holiday work, Sunday, holiday, and night work, pre-holiday work.
• Shift work.
• Compensation for special forms of work.