4 ms·

Misleading title. The german labor ministry, not Germany as a whole, is doing that. Not even other ministries. They follow several major companies (VW was one o

• phreeza 13y ago
  The missing pronoun makes all the difference. Funny how it would have been completely clear had it been the ministry of defense.
• arrrg 13y ago
  And even in the companies far from everyone is covered by that policy. (It’s still a good policy.)
• jessriedel 13y ago
  So the labor ministry (basically the department of labor for us Americans) is a part of the German government with the power to institute nationwide rules regulating labor, but in this case it's just the ministry that is applying a rule to itself? Is that right?
  • Argorak 13y ago
    This is really just internals for the ministry, in their role as an employer, yes.
• dang 13y ago
  That kind of linkbait is such bullshit, and so annoying, that I'm not going to bother to correct the title. I'm going to bury this post. Thanks Agorak. HN users: When submitting a story, you're responsible for making sure that it isn't something like this. You've read the story, the rest of us haven't, and there's no way the moderators can read them all. Do your due diligence and help us all optimize HN for signal/noise.