{"id":531414,"date":"2026-07-03T16:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/531414\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T16:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:57:09","slug":"german-row-over-plan-for-workers-to-need-sick-note-on-first-day-of-illness-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/531414\/","title":{"rendered":"German row over plan for workers to need sick note on first day of illness &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE5JRFRWczhieTN2d3FQUFFMYkRaYmlxMDBQMzFSNjV4V0ZCSGV6MDQ4X3lSWHhZTmo2enRDTzRqN2Q5WnhvdlA5YU1wU2JRMGZwN0dLVjdLNTZPdw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">German row over plan for workers to need sick note on first day of illness<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMikwFBVV95cUxOU2Q1Q3p2YzJBMUdkMk1vc3RTekpXRHpteTlSUWY5WDdaRnBCMHhJQ2lta0hDUXBfR2dscmZaMGo2R0xKTG83MW5tLVhwVDZOTmVRanVKU0dnNy15OTVBOWVjNlhTS0ZFWXZBLWdvRXZ4dXZLQUplbERPQ21RR0pLcUlQTm1pNGN1SFY3TzlDQ0RqcFE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Can Friedrich Merz really fix Germany?<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilAFBVV95cUxPT1FjbnY2VU84OVB6eEFfRE43MWFtZktYNkI3dW5UalRQVVZsQTNRMzBDa2M3WjhTTFAtNzN3ckJRMnJmcERRazhLMG9IYm9MY29WUUdFSXI4SnlBQk5xZ0NoblpHekQ1T2o3RjVDaFB4OUtqYkVGdU1ZdkNVUVg0UmtqcmhFRlc0aUlRUFVTaUlQc1dv?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Germany bans workers from calling in sick<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Telegraph<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi0gFBVV95cUxNWG9hbS1DVWgwMmRXVzhCdFV1OHBBaTlfQzlCS0RQTkx6TG01VC0xbTRDRjBOM3hLODNXeFFEa2x1NS1PbVc0RVM0MkxCMEltVm1WMGVYVGs5ajNNMDJHakJabXY4b0k2a3dieGwxS2VqeFdibVFaVUctVjRVUExWUThxNmtmeW8xXzJkTEtQRkNacEZKYl95TUxzTzEtTGpTTFR4dFZ1UHpmVTcxQ2t5X2RTVzZxR05IM1RyU3NsT1JmYjVHMFUtVjAyQjJpOTdsckE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Germany&#8217;s Merz announces sweeping reforms in key breakthrough<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Euronews<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMihAFBVV95cUxNcWJsSG1zYlNKQ2lDYzdadW9PZjJobVFEaG9wUGU3TnNwYU5LYWtyU3c3UjQ4N1Y0Y000clA3ZTNFWi1WNjR3UU01VE9DaVhocUJWTE5rcTdGM2JfZGVlckNQdlRyTjN1elMxc0FGWC0yMXI3UWdISHBRd3dYa0JnbklNMUY?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Friedrich Merz unveils \u20ac10bn tax cuts to revive German growth<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Financial Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German row over plan for workers to need sick note on first day of illness&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCCan Friedrich Merz really&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-531414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}