The CDU wants to abolish the right to work part-time in Germany. Most people don’t know that anybody here can ask to work part-time and if the company does not have a good reason to refuse it, they can’t.
There are a number of issues with this idea:
- For as long as I’ve worked in Germany I don’t think I’ve ever seen another man work part-time. In effect this would be abolishing a right that is only exercised by women which makes this sexist, even by the CDU’s standards.
- Given the discouraged labor participation of women in Germany in general and them being the only ones using this, it’s fair to say that working part-time is rare in Germany. That makes the change here relatively inconsequential.
- That majority of people who did work full-time up until now, have hardly created the economic output and innovation to put Germany in a competitive position. That makes you think part-time is not the real issue at hand here.
Like we’re used to, another bit of ‘window dressing’ politics from the CDU without real reason or consequence.
(Full disclosure I work part-time in my current job and have worked part-time in the two jobs before that as well.)
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/cdu-wirtschaftsfluegel-ende-teilzeit-100.html
