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They are - in a sense - by taking 40 paid days off/year on average for being 'sick'. [1] That's two month out of every year in addition to ~10 holidays and 30 d

by JanSt 9y ago

They are - in a sense - by taking 40 paid days off/year on average for being 'sick'. [1] That's two month out of every year in addition to ~10 holidays and 30 days vacation. [1] http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/gesundheitspolitik-in-berlin-beamte-sind-im-schnitt-40-tage-krank/11971286.html http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/gesundheitspolitik-in-berl...

Xylakant 9y ago
These are not employees (Beamte are not employed) and they're not federal government. So the article kind of does not apply twice. These statistics also counts weekends and holidays as sick leave, so - as the article mentions - the data cannot be compared with the usual averages which do only count work days. On top, the groups with the highest sick leave are people in high risk jobs - policemen and firefighters. These are definitely not rent-seekers from the government.
- tannhaeuser 9y ago
  My post wasn't an insult on state employees of any kind, or some such. The point was that the electorate consists to a very large extent of receivers of tax payer's money, and that the Berlin Senate buys their electorate with money they receive via cross-financing from other German countries ("Länderfinanzausgleich"), which I do not approve of. Edit: cf. rsync's quote
  - Xylakant 9y ago
    This is not a case of the senate buying anything. The district of Kreuzberg uses it's right to preempt the sale and direct it to a public housing association. The voters in that building a most certainly not government employees, but low-income residents. You're mixing up things in a disingenuous way.
    - tannhaeuser 9y ago
      In other words, they're pulling a publicity stunt here, with the elections conveniently coming up in two weeks. Interfering with the market is uncalled for here, even though it might make good appearance in local media, and resonates with the intellectually challenged. The government's job sure is to provide economic conditions such that a market for housing and other basic needs can sustain itself. But what they are rather doing is publicly blaming investors as "evil insects" ("Heuschrecken") in the worst socialist or even Nazi tradition, and making construction expensive by laws such as EnEV (law putting absurd energy efficiency burdens on new buildings) and asymmetric, unreasonable rights in favor of tenants. Really, if there's a housing crisis, it's entirely the fault of the government, by definition.
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by JanSt 9y ago

Xylakant 9y ago

These are not employees (Beamte are not employed) and they're not federal government. So the article kind of does not apply twice. These statistics also counts weekends and holidays as sick leave, so - as the article mentions - the data cannot be compared with the usual averages which do only count work days. On top, the groups with the highest sick leave are people in high risk jobs - policemen and firefighters. These are definitely not rent-seekers from the government.

tannhaeuser 9y ago
My post wasn't an insult on state employees of any kind, or some such. The point was that the electorate consists to a very large extent of receivers of tax payer's money, and that the Berlin Senate buys their electorate with money they receive via cross-financing from other German countries ("Länderfinanzausgleich"), which I do not approve of. Edit: cf. rsync's quote
- Xylakant 9y ago
  This is not a case of the senate buying anything. The district of Kreuzberg uses it's right to preempt the sale and direct it to a public housing association. The voters in that building a most certainly not government employees, but low-income residents. You're mixing up things in a disingenuous way.
  - tannhaeuser 9y ago
    In other words, they're pulling a publicity stunt here, with the elections conveniently coming up in two weeks. Interfering with the market is uncalled for here, even though it might make good appearance in local media, and resonates with the intellectually challenged. The government's job sure is to provide economic conditions such that a market for housing and other basic needs can sustain itself. But what they are rather doing is publicly blaming investors as "evil insects" ("Heuschrecken") in the worst socialist or even Nazi tradition, and making construction expensive by laws such as EnEV (law putting absurd energy efficiency burdens on new buildings) and asymmetric, unreasonable rights in favor of tenants. Really, if there's a housing crisis, it's entirely the fault of the government, by definition.

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