In order to compensate for the lack of staff, Bavarian state politics wants to change the working time laws. Specifically, the maximum daily duration of ten hours is to be lifted. That makes things more flexible and corresponds to the everyday reality of the employees, argues Labor Minister Scharf.
The Free State of Bavaria insists on relaxing working time regulations. "We finally have to adapt the working time laws to the reality of people's living environments," said the Bavarian Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Ulrike Scharf, to the "Rheinische Post". By law, Scharf wants to enable employees to work more than ten hours a day. So far, this has been limited to a maximum of ten hours.
"We need more flexibility to be able to combine family with work - that also increases the employment rate," said Scharf before the conference of labor and social affairs ministers from the federal and state governments. The background is also the massive shortage of skilled workers in tourism, gastronomy and construction. Companies would have to be able to use the existing staff more flexibly in order to maintain offers.
Employees, too, would therefore often wish to relax their working hours. As an example, the Bavarian resolution proposal, according to the advance notification, cited the cross-industry desire to be able to work the weekly working hours on four days - "so that a long weekend at the place of residence is possible."
However, the prerequisite must be that the overtime work "appears reasonable" according to the risk assessment and can be compensated for in the foreseeable future. The labor and social affairs ministers will meet on Wednesday and Thursday in Perl-Nonning in Saarland.
