Christmas benefit is an additional payment of the employer to its employee, which is usually disbursed with the November content. The requirement on Christmas benefit can be based up:

• Collective agreement
• Employment agreement
• Work contract or
• freiwilliger achievement of the employer.

The height depends often on industry, enterprise, duration of seniority and operational custom. Enterprises may pay differently high Christmas benefits to their coworkers, if material reasons are present for this. A higher qualification is not sufficient after a judgement of the Federal Labor Court (BAG 10 AZR 640/04) alone.

If the employer Christmas benefit pays repeated voluntarily without itself a revocation to reserve, can a requirement from operational exercise develop, it is, it become with the disbursement voluntariness and revocability notes expressly.

Name and time of the payment refer to Christian Christmas. The payment should originally contribute to the purchase of gifts and a better success of the celebration. In the work contract an agreement can have been made, according to which the employee is obligated to the repayment of the Christmas benefit, if it separates within a certain period after the payment of the Christmas benefit from the enterprise. Also collective agreements can plan a repayment obligation (in the public service up to 31. March of the subsequent year).

The Christmas benefit is called partially (for instance in the public service since 1954) also special allowance, allowance or special payment.

An early form of the Weihnachtssonderzuwendung gave it in the shoemaker handicraft, where the master associates to its traditionally with Christmas a piece of leather gave, from which these a few shoes to then make itself could.

See also

• Holiday pay

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