Smart working 24 days a year: Germany prepares the law

Effects of the pandemic – “The virus has taught us that much more work is possible mobile than we thought before “, explained the minister to motivate the measure. In Germany in the most acute phase of the emergency, between March and April, more than one third of employees worked in smart working, according to the numbers provided by Heil. Now the German government wants to transform the emergency measure into a structural one.

Resistance won – Minister Heil had been working at the drawing of law. Already at the end of April he expressed his intentions in an interview with Die Welt. In spring the Liberals and the Greens sided with him, while they were critics employers: “the economy cannot walk with just work from home,” said Steffen Kampetere of the Bda association. Opposition that now seems to have had the worst.

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