Germany's Ruling CDU Triggers Pushback with Pitch to Limit Part-Time Work

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For months, Chancellor Friedrich Merz (70, CDU) has been drumming that Germans have to work more on average.

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The economic wing of Germany's largest party, the ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU), is proposing to scrap the statutory right for workers to work part-time, and to require those who want to work fewer hours to apply for special permission. Part-time work is currently a basic right for all workers in Europe's largest economy. Many, especially women, are often forced to do so for childcare reasons or to care for elderly relatives.

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Does more work bring more social benefits? Other countries show that part-time can even be a solution – if the system as a whole is efficiently organised.

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Green faction leader Katharina Dröge sharply criticized the questioning of the right to part-time work by parts of the CDU, falsely claiming that ... The post Greens defend "lifestyle part-time" and attack CDU appeared first on Apollo News.

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The economic wing of the CDU wants to significantly restrict the right to part-time work. An application provides for internal dispute.