Studies claim that fewer sick days would have stopped the country’s economy shrinking last year
German business executives have warned that high levels of sick leave are damaging the competitiveness of Europe’s largest economy and compounding its economic woes. Workers missed an average of 19.4 days because of illness in 2023, according to Techniker Krankenkasse, the country’s largest public health insurance provider.
But Gerd Röders, who runs a 200-year-old family business supplying parts to the automotive, aviation and pharmaceutical sectors, said it was too easy for workers to be written off sick by a doctor. He suggested that the first three days of absence through sickness could be unpaid. “I don’t want to sound like an asshole, but maybe it would make people think twice,” he said. Even before the pandemic, sick leave rates were among the highest in the developed world.
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