German workers will have to report to a doctor in person to get a sick note on the first day they are ill, under strict proposals from Friedrich Merz.
German workers will have to report to a doctor in person to get a sick note on the first day they are ill, under strict proposals from Friedrich Merz.
I wonder if the main idea was to include something so stupid that it would act like a lightning rod for the news coverage, so that this ends up in the headline instead of their real goals like raising the pension age. Then later they can walk this back and say they listened to the people, while the proposal to tie the pension age to life expectancy will still go through.