Germans are world champions of calling in sick

Historically Germany has been a world champion of the rights of workers related to their health. In 1883 Otto von Bismarck, chancellor of the German empire, set up the world’s first statutory health-insurance system with the Health Insurance Act, which included paid sick leave. Bismarck’s Krankenversicherungsgesetz was not motivated by concern for workers’ welfare so…

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Donald Trump’s head-spinning Iran policy

In Donald Trump’s world, with himself as the protagonist, the conflict in Iran has unfolded in three stages over a chaotic 48-hour period. On Saturday, it began with the US president ordering B-2 bombers to drop bunker-busting bombs on Iran’s nuclear facilities, sending the US into Israel’s war with the Islamic republic.   On Sunday,…

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Man jailed for threatening posts to DUP politicians

PA Media Belfast Crown Court heard how posts on Twitter left Emma Little-Pengelly so scared she considered moving from her home A Belfast man who sent threatening online messages to Northern Ireland’s deputy first minister and smashed the windows of a party colleague’s office has been jailed. Emma Little-Pengelly of the Democratic Unionist Party (…

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Three GPs give their views on assisted dying

Catherine Burns Health correspondent Vicki Loader Health producer BBC More than 1,000 GPs in England have shared their views about the assisted dying bill with BBC News If you ask these three doctors about being GPs, their answers are remarkably similar. “It can be the best job in the world,” one tells me. It’s “a…

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