German chancellor Friedrich Merz announced sweeping tax, pension and labour reforms today, including that workers will now be required to get a medical certificate saying they’re too unwell to work from the first day of sick leave.
Workers in Germany used to be able to take up to three sick days without seeing a doctor and could call a doctor for a one-week sick leave letter without an in-person appointment.
Under the new reforms, both options are now banned.
In a speech, Merz flagged “exorbitant levels of sick leave in companies following the pandemic” and said: “We are…
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.
Textbook case of Whataboutism.
There is a community here on Lemmy that tries to normalize biased media that favour China and other autocratic systems.
I don’t support this German move, but in addition to the end to phone-based sick notes, the German government introduced another 33 measures, including a €10 billion in income tax relief targeted at lower and middle-income earners. But Novara Media takes a single measure out of 34. This is a textbook case of selection bias.
There is nothing wrong with critique, but there are good sources that explain the entire German package in more depth, and many of them are easier accessible as they aren’t hiding behind Cloudflare as Novara Media does if I may say so.
Hey sinophibic idiot: Germany is irrelevant and China dominates it in every metric relevant to workers quality of life. Germany is a Zionist shithole. Take your China Bad shit and go home.