{
  "id": 5053001,
  "title": "Labour minister questions Germany's first-day sick note plan",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/labour-minister-questions-germanys-first-day-sick-note-plan",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-01T11:29:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "IamExpat Germany (News)",
    "slug": "iamexpat-germany-news",
    "url": "https://www.iamexpat.de/career/employment-news/labour-minister-questions-germanys-first-day-sick-note-plan"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Labour Minister Bärbel Bas (SPD) has expressed doubt over whether the CDU’s plan to make sick notes mandatory from the first day of sick leave “makes sense”.",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}