🇩🇪 A sick note from the first day has not yet been introduced; back then the government already decided otherwise.

Union and the SPD had only recently agreed to change the rules for issuing sick notes.

One of the ideas is to require employees to submit a medical certificate already from the first day of illness and not only later, as is currently allowed.

But now, Labour Minister and SPD co-leader Bärbel Bas has surprisingly called her own coalition agreement into question.

The reason is quite practical.

After the agreement, it turned out that numerous exceptions would have to be made to the rule: for parents of sick children, employees with chronic illnesses, and other groups.

Bas now asks the logical question: If a law already has to be drafted with exceptions before it is passed, do we even need such a law?

That results in a fairly German reform: agree first on a new bureaucratic requirement, then create a list of those it is not meant to apply to, and only afterwards ask what the requirement was invented for in the first place.


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