Question juridique clé
Whether the university's salary adjustment for new assistants violated equal treatment by not granting earlier assistants an additional step increase
Solution extraite
No constitutional violation occurred; the salary adjustment was based on objective labor-market reasons and the resulting inequality remained tolerable.
Motifs extraits
Public employers have broad discretion in remuneration matters. The university's response to recruitment difficulties was a sachlich haltbarer Grund, and the remaining disadvantage for earlier assistants was limited and financially modest.