2024-06-21 04:00:17
The German Journalism Community (RND) once more refers back to the introduction of the six-day work in Greece, this time specializing in how Germany might be exemplified by the Greek authorities’s measures.
“Greece, one should acknowledge this with out hesitation, underwent a drastic remedy. […] And the reforms that succeeded each other ultimately had an impact: at this time the Greek public debt is taken into account sustainable and the Greek financial system is as soon as once more aggressive. Nevertheless, in addition they had their prices: in the course of the disaster years the nation misplaced a couple of quarter of its financial energy, actual wages at this time are nonetheless solely at 70% in comparison with pre-crisis ranges and a complete technology of younger and educated individuals left the nation.
Greece will expertise the results of austerity insurance policies for a very long time to come back, with a labor scarcity getting worse. These results are why the federal government is now introducing the six-day week.”
Based on the RND, Germany ought to comply with the instance of Greece: “The German financial system can also be affected by an absence of labor power, whereas after the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine actual wages have additionally decreased in Germany – though this lower reaches 4%, i.e. a lot decrease in comparison with the case of Greece.
Welt: “Ode” to the six-day work that begins in Greece
“They handled the Greeks from excessive floor and as fools”
However nobody in Germany needs to speak about the potential of growing working hours. Quite the opposite, many insist on the concept that work could be executed even in 4 days, with out lowering productiveness and wages. However anybody who believes this – sorry – has misplaced it.
In Greece, which even has stronger progress than Germany and the place individuals work 42.8 hours per week […], individuals have understood that one can’t get out of the disaster with out tears and sweat. […] The Germans, who in the course of the disaster handled the Greeks from above and like fools, haven’t even taken step one on this path. It’s now time to take classes from the Greeks”, concludes the German community.