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I get your sentiment and agree that we're horribly over-regulated in a lot of ways but that's a misconception about the Arbeitszeitgesetz. 1) §3 restricts
by poorlyknit 3y ago
I get your sentiment and agree that we're horribly over-regulated in a lot of ways but that's a misconception about the Arbeitszeitgesetz.
1) §3 restricts working time to an average of 8 hours per Werktag (~business day?), i.e. Saturdays are included. This makes the weekly total 48 hours.
2) It clearly states that it applies to employees only, e.g. §2 Abs. 2.
When you're self-employed, you can obviously do as many hours as you like. This is purely for employee protection.
That being said I'm thinking of moving out of the country for a work opportunity :shrug: Personally I think the problems are mostly cultural (alignment with manufacturing jobs as you said and a big lobby for crusty automotive corporations).
- worklaptopacct 3y agoI was looking through dozens of websites explaining this and it seems I might have fallen victim to SEO optimization. Thanks. On the other side, while the compliance burden and tax regimen are huge, it is at least possible to _be_ compliant. This is in comparison to Poland, where taxes are vague on purpose and tax collection organs are allowed to just randomly go after you because they decided that the law actually meant something else all the time. And then you get retroactively fined for non-compliance.
- RamblingCTO 3y agoThat's actually the only benefit I see: you can trust the laws to a degree. But there are so many that it's difficult to keep up with it and implement them, especially when bootstrapping/indiehacking/side gig'ing.