Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) – Science Minister Angela Dorn (Greens) is campaigning for better pay for lecturers at Hessian universities. In response to a parliamentary question from the SPD parliamentary group in Wiesbaden, the minister said that the lecturers were not state employees or pay-scale employees. Their remuneration is determined by the universities. The task profile of the people also shows a strong heterogeneity in type and demands. However, the current remuneration structures would no longer do justice to the task profile in all areas.
The state has taken up the problem in the negotiations on the code for good work, in which the universities have undertaken, among other things, to make remuneration transparent and to regulate it at least on the basis of the hourly rates for scientific employees, explained the minister. The remuneration should at least be based on the hourly rates for scientific employees.
According to the Ministry, the code for good work is a declaration of self-commitment by the universities, the implementation of which is accompanied by the university management and the staff representatives and, in relation to the student assistants, the student representatives. The science minister signed the code together with 14 state universities at the end of last year. Dorn announced that the agreement would be evaluated after four years.
