Alarm: Germany has the highest sick leave - employers demand change!

Alarm: Germany has the highest sick leave - employers demand change!

The crisis of sick leave in Germany is heading: Allianz boss Oliver Bäte raises the alarm and calls for a drastic reform. He wants to abolish continued payments on the first day of the disease, since employers spend around 77 billion euros on sick employees every year. According to Bäte, which is cited in

The so -called telephone sick leave is also criticized because it is considered too simple. According to Specht, doctors are not interested in not writing patients by telephone, since they are paid for this without direct contact. At the same time, the Germans enjoy the greatest financial assets that have ever been achieved - the Germans have bunkered 9.3 trillion euros on accounts and in shares, as DZ Bank reports. Since more and more is saved, the question remains what happens when the Germans begin to spend their money. This abundance of wealth, which is currently rather quietly on the savings book and under the mattress, could provide economic impulses in many places, but that remains a hypothetical consideration, while the discussion about sick leave and its costs for society is becoming increasingly urgent.