Germany considers scrapping eight-hour workday limit in sweeping labor reform

Potential negative impact on worker well-being, work-life balance, and health outcomes if extended working hours become standard practice.

For more than a century, the eight-hour workday has stood as one of civilization's hard-won agreements between labor and capital — a boundary drawn not merely in law, but in the long memory of human struggle. Now Germany, whose labor standards have long cast a long shadow across Europe, is contemplating whether that boundary should be erased entirely. Faced with aging populations, shrinking workforces, and economic uncertainty, policymakers are asking whether flexibility must come at the cost of protection — and whether the social contracts of the twentieth century can survive the pressures of

Germany considers scrapping eight-hour workday limit in sweeping labor reform

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