Germany's Chancellor Merz:
We can no longer accept the extraordinarily high levels of sick leave in our companies.
We are abolishing sick leave by telephone and introducing the requirement to submit a medical certificate from the very first day of illness.
We know this is a tough decision. But we can no longer afford this competitive disadvantage caused by prolonged absences from work.
Sunset over Maaloula, a mountainside village in southwestern Syria 🇸🇾
Maaloula is one of the few places where a modern dialect of the Aramaic spoken by Jesus is still spoken today.