cross-posted from: https://feddit.online/c/euro@feddit.online/p/1817064/germany-tightens-sick-leave-rules-medical-doctor-note-required-from-day-one-telephone-s

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.

  • mabeledo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    2 days ago

    Great. Make yourself even less likable to the working class, by serving your billionaire masters. No wonder fucking AfD is winning by doing nothing these days.

    • MohamedMoney@feddit.orgEnglish
      36·
      2 days ago

      What I still don’t get is that the afd benefits from this. It will be much worse for the working class when they achieve their goals.

      • Pechente@feddit.orgEnglish
        34·
        2 days ago

        Absolutely but for people to recognize that, they need to be at least somewhat well informed and a huge number of people are fed by targeted disinformation campaigns and will therefore not see this

      • matlag@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        10·
        1 day ago

        Same as in France I guess: the right tactic is to speak as few as possible while claiming you’re a workers party. Let the acting gov keep shooting itself in the foot repeatedly.

        Oligarchs controlled medias will do the rest.

      • Waterpumpee@lemmus.orgEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        thanks to the utterly stupid brandmauer they can play the perfect opferrolle and never have to make difficult descisions.

      • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
        7·
        1 day ago

        The thought pattern is not new, and it is anything but harmless. The Soviet Union put dissidents into psychiatric institutions with the diagnosis of “creeping schizophrenia.” Whoever rejected the system could only be sick in this logic. Exactly this pattern was on the stage of a German Federal Party Congress on Saturday, friendly packaged as a healing offer.

        Ah yes - it reminds of the Soviet Union, yes. Not anything closer to home. 😅

    • CaptObvious@literature.cafeEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      People often vote against a party/candidate rather than for the opposition. Until we figure out how to get decent people interested in politics, this may simply be our reality.

    • BigShammy80@feddit.orgEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      What do you mean by “less likable”? There is nothing “less” anymore, he’s ground zero of likeable.

      But well, apparently it’s the time of stupid leaders around the world…

    • iocase@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      It’s the same in the UK with pants on head regarded laws and rulings. If citizens do something on their own initiative and it makes the local council look bad they throw the book at them i.e. that one guy who cleaned trash out of a harbor after pleading for years for the local council to do it. Once he did it himself the council threw the book at him for “environmental impact” my fucking ass…

      Its like Britain and Germany are in a race to see who can any % speed run Hitler 2.0 rising to power… They both seemingly loathe the working class.