Tag: sick
First-day sick notes fuel broader debate over health-care reform
(de-news.net) – The FDP supports tax-free attendance incentives, while the SPD opposes the requirement for first-day sick notes, dividing Germany’s coalition. Medical leaders are cautioning…
Coalition divisions surface over first-day sick notes
(de-news.net) – First-day sickness certificates and more extensive social policy reforms have rekindled internal tensions within Germany’s ruling coalition, with SPD worries about unforeseen consequences,…
SPD strongly criticizes coalition plan to tighten sick leave rules
(de-news.net) – Plans to require employees to present a medical certificate from the first day of illness, replacing the current rule under which certification is…
Coalition backs end to telephone sick notes
(de-news.net) – Germany’s planned overhaul of sick leave certification has exposed divisions between coalition leaders and medical organizations, with supporters arguing it will reduce abuse…
German doctors defend telephone sick leave, urge crackdown on commercial online certificates
(de-news.net) – The German Association of General Practitioners has cautioned against abolishing telephone-based sick leave certification while at the same time calling for more stringent…
Health Minister signals reassessment of pandemic-era sick leave rules
(de-news.net) – A possible reassessment of a policy instrument introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic has been signaled by Germany’s Health Minister Nina Warken (CDU), who…
Calls for reform in sick leave policy and physician distribution
(de-news.net) – Amid persistent debates surrounding the optimization of statutory health insurance in Germany, Andreas Gassen, Chairman of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance…
