In the ore diocese Paderborn refuses a Gemeindereferentin following its work contract and in the municipality living, where it is employed. For self-justification it covers their employer in the local press with reproaches.

(kreuz.net) the daily paper `new Westfälische' reported on 6 March 2008 of an anonymous 36jährigen Gemeindereferentin in the ore diocese Paderborn, which may not live in the municipality, where she is employed as Gemeindereferentin.

The legal situation is clear and in the work contract fixed: Municipality advisers are subject to a residence obligation.

A Gemeindereferentin is to divide the life with its family in the municipality - the Erzdiözese formulates a Binsenwahrheit: „That is a matter of course. “

But the Gemeindereferentin does not want to understand that. It pushes the debt before `the new Westfälischen' its employer into the shoes and explains “to be medium-effectively by this „bitterly disappointed:

„What does church here, does not fit what says her “- she states.

Until well one year ago the Gemeindereferentin in sand, a quarter in the northwest of the district town Paderborn in North Rhine-Westphalia worked.

There she lives also with her husband and three children in a home of one's own. But with their place in sand was not it content and asked the Erzdiözese for a transfer.

The Erzdiözese found a new work for it as Gemeindereferentin in six kilometers removed Pastoralverbund Paderborn northeast.

In order to follow the residence obligation for municipality advisers, mandatory after work contract, the Gemeindereferentin announced - on proposal of the board of arbitration of the Paderborner of ore diocese - its second domicile there.

That could not be done well, and the Erzdiözese let a warning follow.

But from sand the Gemeindereferentin wants not away. Their children would go there to the school and their man are vocationally and in a friendly manner rooted in the place - them explain and pulled before the Paderborner labor court.

„You require of me that I separate from my family? As church? “- it whines there before the judge.

The demand of the church collides with the self understanding and the view of the Gemeindereferentin of marriage and family - its attorney sekundiert and suppresses that its client selected her occupation in the full knowledge around its municipality-bound character.

In May a Paderborner work judge will concern itself again with the case. The Gemeindereferentin would like that their problem becomes one „precedent “.

Support got it also from the lady journalist Jutta stone-cutter, which wrote the tendencious article over its case in `the new Westfälische' and in addition also a comment wrote.

It strives to paint the case as conflict between „the men in the Generalvikariat “and a poor „woman employee “:

„It finally concerns six kilometers and thus around the principle “- falsify the lady journalist the situation.

The fact that the residence obligation of a municipality adviser for its pastorale work of fundamental importance is and only a meaningful activity made possible, suppresses it.

Instead Mrs. Steinmetz from current cause swears to „the world woman day “and subordinates an alleged „impact in the face of the many catholic inside, which engage themselves for the church, their faith the occupation made. “

More than 75% of the municipality advisers are female. On these women the catholic church is vitally dependent - the lady journalist, without to explained, deklamiert what has to do this statement with the residence obligation of a municipality adviser.

Finally it demands - as if there would be that somewhere - for municipality adviser one „problem-free “agreement of occupation and family.

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Andreas_Rau: @domwe

beautifully dumb - Sorry, but who pays meal money, without to eat are debt. They makes probable also for copies at the own expense, provides tinkering guidances in your spare time and drives children from A to B at the own expense. „, I did not know power nothing before “. Apology, goes it still?

Clearly a residence obligation is not completely wrong. But it concerns honestly now, here 6 (six!!!) Kilometer. A distance, which can be mastered loosely with the bicycle. For me that sounds everything after a cheap excuse, in order to get rid an unpleasant woman employee.

time and eternity: If the Gemeindereferentin before court

before court right gets, considers themselves the employer whether it stops in the future layman forces.
The woman shoots a self-gate!

domwe: What is with the municipality?

I am the opinion it in each job rules and requirement give with which one in agreement explained as soon as the work contract sign myself. As a educator I have the obligation, if into my service a meal falls, to pay for this food money. All the same whether I eat or not. I knew that before and agreed with it!

Mrs. XY knew before from the residence obligation, it knew if it in a municipality to employ leaves themselves, there a house builds, their children into a social net merges the risk exists that her to move must. Further also the obligation exists in the work that one MUST change the place after (I believe) 8 years. Who today in Paderborn works can in 8 years in Cologne work and it is obligating. Also that is the job and the obligations accepted it.

Mrs. XY has herself for it decided that it not further in sand to work would like. So that it goes that she works if it in Paderborn in a municipality either to 50% sets is gradated or it shifts YOUR main domicile.

At its dilemma carries not the church debt but it is the consequence of their decision in sand to live not to be wanted or to work be able. That does not have to do anything with emancipation, but only with majority.

Miroslav Filipovic Majstorovic: Homo - hetero

A municipality adviser must be heterosexual homolokal and.

God will sit.

be correct from the Luther country: completesimply

well they do not make the case nevertheless so complicated… fuse it the municipalities, do not tear them the church starting from where gemeindereferentin any longer to work wanted and everything is in most beautiful order… surely only the one ask for the time

Steini1974: I ask myself which completely different one…

It is a groundless insolence, which some rausnehmen themselves here, if they write here derogatorily over GemRef's.
If all GemRef's in Germany would lay down its work, then the Pastoral in Germany would collapse completely.
Dt. the bishop conference stands for this Beurf im übrigen absolute behind this occupational group and revises in a Kommision the guidelines umd still better to set up.