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.
I hate this passionately, for so many reasons.
They talk about how socialism breeds “nanny states”. How is this ultra conservative move not nannyism?
Did all of these fucking people go to school in the 1890’s?
Right so the problem here is that you suffer from this left-wing thinking that there should be consistency in words, actions, rules.
While conservatism is about having an in-group who the rules protect but does not bind, and an out-group who the rules bind but do not protect. There not being equality and consistency is the point.
And, almost comically, the people who create all the wealth through honest work are firmly in the out-group, and not to be trusted.
Exactly right.