Germany: CDU announces an initiative to codify the Labour Code

CDU announced an initiative to standardize the Labour Code for this autumn. "If the big coalition manages to adopt such legislation, it will make possible to reduce the bureaucracy and by doing this to have positive repercussions on the labour market", declared Ronald Pofalla, the CDU"s general secretary. (Ref. 06794)
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Angela Merkel’s party wants to start with a project of the Bertelsmann foundation. In 2005, the foundation had asked two lawyers to write a draft bill on that purpose. The draft bill was already presented at the annual lawyer’s congress last May. This draft has been been appreciated as meeting the requirements formulated by German politicians and economists for several decades. Indeed, the German labour regulations are spread out in 30 different bills. An important number of judgments were held

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