Germany ends Phone Sick Notes from Day 1 "to cut absences" Germany's government agreed to scrap phone-based sick notes for short illnesses, mandating in-person or video doctor's certificates from the first day of absence—up from day four. This follows seven hours of negotiations between CDU, CSU, and SPD, amid 2023 averages of 15.1 sick days per worker and 23.3 days reported in 2025 by some insurers. Business groups applaud the move to boost productivity, while doctors and unions fear clinic overloads and a culture of mistrust. Germany's Chancellor Merz: "We can no longer accept the extraordinarily high levels of sick leave in our companies. We are abolishing sick leave by telephone and introducing the requirement to submit a medical certificate from the very first day of illness. We know this is a tough decision. But we can no longer afford this competitive disadvantage caused by prolonged absences from work."
i have noticed that it's always the people who work the least who talk about work the most
yea he did it, hes the worst chancellor we ever had
to even replicate his thoughts in my head really hurts
>>143522 really makes you think...
>Parental allowance is to be limited to twelve months it goes like that day in and out hes just the worst chancellor we ever had
to summarize it for foreigners, merz is essentially someone who'd be standing there in the 1930s, insisting that people dont need cars but faster horses and that "we all" (not him) need to work harder and abandon all traces of civilisation in order to maintain a horse-based society afd voters want the same, but even harder
>>143609 well if we'd stuck with horses you wouldn't be having these heat waves and the middle easterners never would have had any money to leave the middle east
>Merz lashes out at critics of the reform: “Cultural pessimists, doomsayers, whiners, complainers, indignant professional critics: Get out of here!” its a new day so merz insults people again its trump light
we don't have phone abscence in poland, u need doctorkake for any health abscence in poland
>>143916 same here same here y'know i dont work, but i did enjoy being to go to the doctor, sometimes, without being caught between everyone with a cold or a flu in particular thats the end of that did uno merz thinks hes "upper middle class" and has 2 private planes
>>143916 why not? it would be a good perk to get good employees. my employer gives 5 days of sick leave by just notifying them
lol in the US I just tell my manager I’m not feeling well. Thats it.
>>143930 do you get paid for the days when you're sick? also are the sick days deducted from your yearly 2 week vacation?
>>143929 as if we need more reasons to envy finland :)
>>143936 lmao
>>143609 who's the voterbase?
>>143929 tbf we have 4 on-demand days off no questions asked per year mandated by law
>>143955 boomers and pensioners Theyre pouring out money over them They can earn 36000 euro tax free when in pension
>>143962 what are they for? how many vacation days?
>>143977 are immigrants supposed to pay for pension system in germany? what's you guys birth rate?
>>143984 you don't have to say. 20 upgraded to 26 after some years worked in life.
>>143932 No and no
>>143932 I mean yes i get paid (im salary)
why wont germans just admit the nanny state mindset is bankrupting the country
>>144002 Because that would be “far-right neo-nazi racist propaganda”
>>144015>"I need ze day off because... um... ze Nazis...."
>>144015 FRIEDDDDDDDDDDY TUNDUTS IS THAT U
