Off for the 8-Hour Day? How the Government Wants to Change Working Hours

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DGB head Fahimi has criticised the Federal Government's plans for a weekly maximum working time rather than a daily maximum.

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A weekly maximum working time instead of a day limit should open up new potentials on the German labour market.The Ministry of Economics is planning a new law this year - it is primarily intended to help tourism.

Berliner Morgenpost

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The government wants to relax the strict working time rules and introduce a week's working time – but this creates heated debates.

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The plan is to switch to a maximum weekly working time. This will start in tourism and gastronomy.

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According to the Federal Government's proposal, the maximum working time of 8 hours (in exceptional cases up to 10 hours) is to be changed daily. The 8-hour day is to be abolished and replaced by a maximum working time per week. This opens the door to the exploitation of employees. Apart from the fact that no limit of the maximum working time per week has yet been mentioned in the draft law or is not yet known, the daily working time - if only...

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The government wants to abolish the 8-hour day. For a better reconciliation of family and work, it says officially. However, in reality 14-hour days, burn-outs and even worse working conditions threaten. That's what it's about now. The article Millions of Germans affected: Government wants to abolish 8-hour day first appeared on inside digital.