Germany: Deutsche Post only signing permanent employment contracts with the healthy

At Deutsche Post good health is a criterion for temporary employees to transition to permanent employment contracts. Deutsche Post has confirmed the Sunday publication revelation that has spurred politicians vitriol at a time when the German postal leader is already under fire over plans to merge its mail and packages distribution service with its low-cost Delivery subsidiary.
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Permanent employment contract reserved for the ‘hale and hearty’. In its latest edition, weekly publication Bild am Sonntag revealed the postal giant’s affirmed practice, which is under fire, especially from Germany’s political quarter as it prepares amendments to legislation on working time, frameworks and conditions. Deutsche Post subsidiary heads have received guidelines on transitioning temporary employment contracts to permanent contracts and among them is one stating that employees who h

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