He says that it's a competitive disadvantage as if other countries already have policies like this.

And the German citizens who are so dishonest are the ones who voted him into power, so what does that say about him?

Psychopath does what he can to make life more difficult for others.

That's going to be a nice boost for the next pandemic.

I thought Europe had good worker protection laws.

In the US, I just tell my manager I’m not feeling well, and take a sick day. No doctors notes.

Is this not how it works in Europe? Granted I am a salaried employee. I also work from home. So not hourly labor. Do these things factor in as well?

oh, I guess Germany has a lot of unemployed doctors, so they're making up unnecessary busywork to help them?

I'm not sure I'm following.

In Italy, if I get sick, I call my doctor that depending on how sick I am, will either send me an email certificate (that it's already logged in the national social security system at the moment they make it) or give me an appointment if I need to be checked. Normally, within the day, I send my employer that email and it's all done.

Was Germany doing differently?

Saw this on the news and it mentioned the german guy comparing thier sick days to the us and how germans use twice as many. dude. us workers are going to work sick.

What? So you feel sick, like a migraine or so, and have to go to a doctor just to confirm it?? The whole world has gone to shit.

Feel sick.

Call in sick.

Get told to get letter.

Don't get letter.

Go back to work when well

Get asked for letter.

Go fuck yourself and fire me if you're going to.

Any job willing to enforce that isnt worth working at.

This system is in place in France and is extremely stupid and wasteful.

This is going to kill people since waiting times increasing for doctors aren't just some benign inconvenience. And contagious people will have an incentive to go to work as well, which is what happens in France and worsens epidemics, which actually costs way more than the mythical lazy person who calls in sick to play video games all day.

Are Germans going to fight back?

is this slavery? Forced work?

Bruh, who voted for this guy. Everything this party does makes our lives directly worse. Is there anyway this gets blocked? I cannot believe everyone gets a worse life experience AND there's a tax break for the rich included in this and we're not fucking protesting in the streets.

My first couple years in Germany were under the street light coalition, which had the traitorous FDP in it, but it was the first time in my life that political news from the government was always good. It was such an amazing feeling that heavily reinforced my choice to move to Germany for forever.

Every month under the CDU has felt like the exact opposite. That freedom of worry, that feeling of constant improvement, gone. It's living in the US all over again. And with the radical policies being pushed by the AfD and the CDU courting them while also worsening the state of things to the point that the AfD have a chance of winning... Ugh. I just feel like there's a world where Germans keep voting to shoot themselves in the foot and instead of staying and becoming a German and fully integrating - and really changing my family's future from Ukrainian two generations ago to American with my parents now to German with me - I'm gonna have to move again to a different EU country that doesn't want to ruin their own future.

God the Wealth tax can't come soon enough in the UK and France and hopefully everywhere else.

I kinda deludedly maybe remember a time that we were at least told the world is heading in a direction based on science, learning and knowledge.

I'm sick of mr merz, does that count?

This is bad, but Novara Media is using such news while at the same time hailing China for its policies, although Chinese social welfare and labour conditions are far behind Germany's or anywhere else in Western democracies. This is a highly biased anti-democratic medium in my opinion.