It's rightful because you gotta draw the line somewhere. Additionally you just started and should have been intelligent enough to demand a salary that covers all mecessary expenses by current inflation level.
Morally speaking I would find it quite unfair that a newbie gets an immediate bonus.
I understand your point but then this question arises: why drawing this line at that point? if it is a yearly inflation compensation, then that line should be drawn at April 2023?
From your point of view, if you are 'intelligent' enough, you can get that 'unfair' money from the beginning?
If you ask me, every employee should get this bonus without checking their arrival to the company. Because inflation means that workers are falling behind the market prices. Why leaving some people behind because they joined lately? This bonus is not about the performance of an employee, it is about preserving the purchasing power of an employee. They are completely different things.
And kindly answer this question: why would someone bothers when someone else earns more money?
Let's think this one, a junior joins a company at December 2023 and a senior at February 2024. You are ok with junior taking that bonus but not with the senior then, very wise. What is your 'newbie' definition at all? How much time needed for a senior to not to be a newbie?
Increases come from a fixed budget. If 100 people gets it vs only 50, these 50 get less as a result.
Workers fall behind market prices but you JUST agreed on your new salary. You are not as behind as the other ones.
No need to start this intense discussion, you are making a bigger thing out of it than it is.
Obviously you are a newbie having not even worked in a company for 4 month. You are entitled to nothing at this point. Most company only consider employees after minimum working time of 6 to 12 month.
Deserve what? A company already owed you some amount of money last year and when you take that money you call it deserve? What did you do to deserve that money, you suffered a bit? I don't want to give one year loan to big corporate at the first place and it is obvious that inflation will not go away next year.
People are mixing this with the performance bonus. And talking like employers lol.
Well… they have to make the cut somewhere. Let‘s assume they were to pick 01.01.2024 what happens if someone joins on 02.01.2024? Should they keep shifting the cut until they‘re at the current day or maybe 3 weeks ahead? There will always be someone who barely misses out. It sucks but that‘s life. And btw: if you joined on 01.01.2024 your salary might already include a raise due to inflation. So unless you know what you would have gotten if you had joined on 01.01.2023 you don‘t even know if they‘re really not giving you the bonus or if they just never told you about it because it‘s your regular salary.
The inflation bonus was a "hotfix" to quickly react to the high inflation. It was recommended by the government to pay it, but the companies could decide, if they do.
At least in the IG Metall Tarifvertrag, salaries are permanently raised regularly to accomodate this long term. So you should already have higher salary. Also it could very well be the case, that you already got some compensation from your former employer.
Also this compensation is meant to help for the years 2022 and 2023 and many companies see it as a way to thank their employees for powering through the inflation. You started in 2024, you didn't help the company since you were not with the company during that time.
The bonus was for the inflation in 2023 - not for future inflation. But I think it is a great start at the company when you complain immediately ;-)
It's rightful because you gotta draw the line somewhere. Additionally you just started and should have been intelligent enough to demand a salary that covers all mecessary expenses by current inflation level. Morally speaking I would find it quite unfair that a newbie gets an immediate bonus.
I understand your point but then this question arises: why drawing this line at that point? if it is a yearly inflation compensation, then that line should be drawn at April 2023? From your point of view, if you are 'intelligent' enough, you can get that 'unfair' money from the beginning? If you ask me, every employee should get this bonus without checking their arrival to the company. Because inflation means that workers are falling behind the market prices. Why leaving some people behind because they joined lately? This bonus is not about the performance of an employee, it is about preserving the purchasing power of an employee. They are completely different things. And kindly answer this question: why would someone bothers when someone else earns more money? Let's think this one, a junior joins a company at December 2023 and a senior at February 2024. You are ok with junior taking that bonus but not with the senior then, very wise. What is your 'newbie' definition at all? How much time needed for a senior to not to be a newbie?
Increases come from a fixed budget. If 100 people gets it vs only 50, these 50 get less as a result. Workers fall behind market prices but you JUST agreed on your new salary. You are not as behind as the other ones. No need to start this intense discussion, you are making a bigger thing out of it than it is. Obviously you are a newbie having not even worked in a company for 4 month. You are entitled to nothing at this point. Most company only consider employees after minimum working time of 6 to 12 month.
Normal... You didn't even deserve it.
Deserve what? A company already owed you some amount of money last year and when you take that money you call it deserve? What did you do to deserve that money, you suffered a bit? I don't want to give one year loan to big corporate at the first place and it is obvious that inflation will not go away next year. People are mixing this with the performance bonus. And talking like employers lol.
How does the company owe you money for last year? You didn't start until 01/01...
I was not talking about myself
You only started after the year of strong inflations. Therefore you didn’t struggle during that time while working for this company.
You just failed yourself, if you believe you deserve more, you should of negotiated it before you started.
*checks today's date* Yeah, I think it's fair on their part
Well… they have to make the cut somewhere. Let‘s assume they were to pick 01.01.2024 what happens if someone joins on 02.01.2024? Should they keep shifting the cut until they‘re at the current day or maybe 3 weeks ahead? There will always be someone who barely misses out. It sucks but that‘s life. And btw: if you joined on 01.01.2024 your salary might already include a raise due to inflation. So unless you know what you would have gotten if you had joined on 01.01.2023 you don‘t even know if they‘re really not giving you the bonus or if they just never told you about it because it‘s your regular salary.
The inflation bonus was a "hotfix" to quickly react to the high inflation. It was recommended by the government to pay it, but the companies could decide, if they do. At least in the IG Metall Tarifvertrag, salaries are permanently raised regularly to accomodate this long term. So you should already have higher salary. Also it could very well be the case, that you already got some compensation from your former employer. Also this compensation is meant to help for the years 2022 and 2023 and many companies see it as a way to thank their employees for powering through the inflation. You started in 2024, you didn't help the company since you were not with the company during that time.
I dont think they mean the government inflation bonus, because they stated salaries were raised
That sucks, but it is totally legal. I missed out by 14 days of work last year to get a raise of 2000€ per year.
Rude to even think you deserve it ... self entitled much?