Economic Association desires to delete church holidays | EUROtoday

The Association of the Bavarian Economy (VBW) speaks for a deletion of church holidays. “We need more work, fewer holidays,” VBW President Wolfram Hatz is quoted from the “Bild” newspaper.

VBW managing director Bertram Brossardt added: “Easter Monday, Whit Monday, the second Christmas day-my colleagues from France and Italy are regularly amazed that we are free to get there.” To delete sooner or later of “would bring a lot to the German economy and do not put a lot of strain on employees,” mentioned Brossardt. Germany has essentially the most holidays throughout Europe in comparison with neighboring nations.

The affiliation is probably to do with out this vacation

The enterprise affiliation justifies its demand for extra and longer work with the weakening German economic system – and flanked it with figures from the Society for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) of 2023. Accordingly, Germany has the shortest annual working hours worldwide. According to the OECD, an worker in Germany labored a median of 1343 hours in 2023. That is 92 hours lower than in Austria, 186 hours lower than in Switzerland and 391 hours lower than in Italy, in keeping with the VBW management.

Brossardt described the Whit Monday as essentially the most dispensable. In the occasion of a deletion as a vacation, all federal states would additionally must take part. Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) had lately spoken out towards a deletion of statutory holidays.

In Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Bremen, Lower Saxony, Berlin and Hesse, in keeping with the German Trade Union Confederation, there are most nationwide, in Saarland, in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria at twelve. In some areas of Bavaria there are even 14 public holidays.