Berlin (dpa-AfX)-Verdi boss Frank Werneke makes the Front day of work against the reform plans of the Union and SPD for the working hours of employees in Germany. “This enables 13 hours of work in a row and legally permissible,” said Werneke according to a message. “Thousands of employees in retail, parcel delivery, logistics, care and in many other areas are massively under pressure,” said the union chair. “The burden becomes unbearable.”
According to the coalition agreement, Schwarz-Rot wants to create the possibility of a weekly instead of a daily maximum working time. Standards in occupational safety and the applicable rest time regulations should be maintained.
Verdi: Employees have 600 million overtime
The eight-hour day has been in Germany since 1918. The Working Hours Act says today: “The working hours of workers’ working hours must not exceed eight hours.” Ten hours per day are only possible in exceptions.
Werneke warned that “under the guise of alleged bureaucracy removal” would be attacked by the welfare state and property rights. This is the case with the Working Hours Act, for example. Not too little work in Germany. “The employees push 600 million overtime in front of them and cannot reduce them because of the workload,” said Werneke./bw/dp/ZB