Dispute over Reformation Day: “Because work pressure is increasing” – Left chief needs a nationwide vacation | EUROtoday

Left chief Jan van Aken needs Reformation Day on October thirty first to be a nationwide public vacation. “I think we don’t need fewer holidays, but more holidays. Many people are totally exhausted and burnt out. That’s why Reformation Day and Corpus Christi should be public holidays for everyone throughout Germany,” he advised the Catholic News Agency (KNA). “Many people are already at their limit because the work pressure is increasing and more and more overtime has to be worked.”

The federal authorities’s commissioner for small and medium-sized companies, Gitta Connemann (CDU), had beforehand spoken out in favor of abolishing the vacation. “This is a slap in the face to everyone who bends over backwards every day to make ends meet,” van Aken continued. “Gitta Connemann wants to take such a holiday away from hard-working people.”

The Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) additionally opposes calls to abolish Reformation Day as a public vacation. “Reformation Day is much more than a church holiday,” stated an EKD spokeswoman for the KNA. “It is a reminder of a historic departure that has shaped our country culturally, intellectually and politically.” Reformation Day stands for renewal and that’s exactly why it stays related for the financial system and society.

“Rest and recovery are prerequisites for our performance,” stated the spokeswoman. “Despite its public holidays, Germany is one of the best-performing economies in the world.” There is not any empirical proof of a optimistic impact of abolishing public holidays. At the identical time, Reformation Day is a name to take motion and form issues. “For this reason alone, Reformation Day is a holiday that goes far beyond church attendance.”

Holiday in 9 federal states

Connemann raised the query within the Table Today podcast: “Can we still allow ourselves to do certain things that cost performance?” She continued: “I look at Reformation Day, for example, when the churches in Lower Saxony, which is predominantly Protestant, are empty.”

Reformation Day is a public vacation in 9 federal states: Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia. On October thirty first, Protestants commemorate the Reformation. On at the present time in 1517, Martin Luther is alleged to have nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church.