This was inspired after seeing the original article posted here. It's pretty basic stuff for this community but you never know.
Awwww, the spoils of imperialism running out? Poor babies. Put more money into NATO scratch off tickets. May be that will help.
May be their banks can loot Greece some more.
Something about this which was bothering me: companies spying on their employees is indeed illegal. Employers even asking what illness their employee has is illegal. If an employer has an actual reason to suspect the illness is faked, then they can investigate, but even then the boundaries of what the employer or detective can do are quite limited.
A German site talking about this suggested employers lay off workers who take "too many" sick days and pay them a moderate severance compensation, as this will be cheaper than hiring the detective, defending the surveillance in court when the employee ultimately sues, paying the employee compensation, and likely losing them anyway due to complete breach of trust.
I think they can get around it in several ways. The scab is very quiet about the methods he uses and for good reason. But it's probably at the very basic level checking the employee's social media accounts to see if they're posting from outside their home on their sick day. I'm not familiar with labor laws in Germany but in some places it's also quite easy to fire an employee despite protections by citing a reasonable but unrelated reason, e.g. redundancy, cost, etc.
Being out and about on a sick day is usually fine, a worker may do whatever they like on their sick days which contribute to getting healthy again, and what that is is nobody's business except the worker and their doctors.
To be fired an employee must be warned for the same violation of company policy on three separate occasions within one year before they can be fired. (Eg. faking being sick three times.) Unrelated but reasonable excuses don't fly, the employee can sue and typically wins.
But of course the detectives are shady about their methods, they're operating on the knife's edge of what's legal.
I speak for myself and others when I say that people are burnt out. There's nothing to be gained from working hard. We don't get raises and employers laugh in our faces when we talk about the massive inflation of everyday essentials. Unions are just cooperating with industry because they're scared of the capitalists just packing up and leaving. The government is too busy supporting war, xenophobia, and billionaires to even notice that working people are struggling. Of course we're out sick. We are sick. It's a completely normal response to the sick environment in which we're forced to live.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
They could have spent that money on Corsi-Rosenthal boxes and respirators and fit testing and UV disinfecting lamps and then workers would hardly get sick at all. It would probably cost much less to do so. Or they could institute remote work for jobs that can accommodate it. As usual, capital is more focused on repression than actually solving problems.
couldn't be related to the US blowing up a gas pipeline or two.. it's gotta be those sick day takers
Couldn’t be related to the Government refusing to spend money on infrastructure, education or economic subsidies either. The German government has constitutionally secured the inability to deal with economic crises by severely limiting the amount of debt that can be accrued.
