So there's a fair amount of discussion going on with managers and business owners....over the government order for next weekend (Easter weekend). Normally....Friday, Sunday and Monday would be off-days. They are federally recognized and no one is complaining over that deal.
It's the change to making suddenly.....Thursday a holiday-off situation, and to some degree....Saturday is now off (unless you are a grocery operation).
Is this 'forced' leave? Well....nothing in terms of legal jargon is worded that way.
Affecting union employees? Oh yeah....big-time.
Creating a political mess to clean up in the next week? I would make a suggestion that more than a thousand man-hours will be wasted in the Bundestag as they look over the mess created, and work up some federal solution for two days of off-time which should not exist.
Austria having this problem? No....only Easter Sunday, and Monday would be federal holidays off there.
Switzerland having this problem? No...regionally, they'd recognize Friday and Sunday as federal holidays, with Thursday and Monday as regional holidays (depending on what part of the country you live in).
It's silly to flip this into a public forum type debate, but we are traveling toward that type of situation.
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