Merz‘ Partei verspricht, gegen Deutschlands „Lifestyle-Teilzeitarbeit“ vorzugehen

Arseholes. I have been working 100% for 20 years only with the outlook to reduce my hours, if I ever needed it. The moment this initiative becomes a bill I am on part-time – and *not* coming back.

Merz won’t do shit, because he only talks out of his ass and doesn’t achieve anything. Ever.

Oh Germany… how the mighty is falling. Poland has continued economic growth and doesn’t want to convert to the euro, while Germany has a stagnant economic climate. Maybe it’s not the part-time work that’s the issue, but the bureaucratic policies, and “we’ve always done it this way mentality”. Or maybe the fact that people made their riches in the 70s and 80s.

Yes, push the problem to the middle and lower class: work harder, longer, and reduce benefits. Keep them busy, dumb them down with the inability to question what’s happening. I’ve seen this before…

I work part time because I’m studying for my bachelors degree on the side. I would be fucked if I couldn’t work part time.

Hot take, bold dude is not entirely wrong. Easy to ridicule and dismiss because he is coming from a privileged position but if you ignore the muppet for a moment and look at the stats — Germans stopped working long time ago. But please, go on and blame everything on capitalism, rich elite or whatever takes the responsibility from the general population.

From listening to the discussions about this on the radio today, I think that it’s not presented correctly.

When somebody starts a new job, the hours they work are 100% negotiable. If the employer and future employee agree on a part-time contract, that’s it. If the employer and future employee agree on a full-time contract, that’s it. It would be asinine for the government to try to interfere with that.

What this is actually about is that a full-time employee can unilaterally decide to only work part-time going forward, and the employer **must** concede.

Up until now, the reason didn’t matter. The employer just had to go with it.

There are understandable reasons to change from full-time to part-time, like caring for elderly family members or children. They do not intend to interfere with those cases.

The issue is: Who decides what’s a good/valid reason for going part-time?

What if a person’s mental health isn’t up to working full-time anymore? Do they need to present a doctor’s note from a psychiatrist to their employer? Isn’t that information too personal and sensitive? An employer doesn’t even get the diagnosis when their employee is out sick, so how would this be okay?

And what if a person is simply content with a part-time income and wants to focus on other things? How is that not a valid reason from their perspective?

This is just about peddling to companies. I can see it being a problem when an employee wants to go part-time, and employers just have to roll with it, no matter how many issues it can cause for them, most basic example being the need to hire an additional part-timer to have the workload covered.

At the end of the day, though, all this is going to do if it comes to pass, is that employers will still swallow the worm and agree to a good employee going part-time because they don’t want to lose them, or the employee will have to look for a part-time position elsewhere.

With the often bemoaned Fachkräftemangel, why would a Fachkraft just go along with this instead of seeking out a different employer who agrees to their terms?

As usual, this is going to hurt people with a low qualification level.

So many people are without job and on Arbeitslosgeld , those are skilled people without jobs. Why are they complaining of lack of skilled people and part time work,

I have nothing but disdain for german conservatism

CDU, hating the working class since ’49

Good luck…I’m working part time because nobody employs me full time…