The German health ministry has found that workers are calling in sick to work as rarely as in any year since records began. Analysts reckon they’re afraid of losing their jobs.
German workers in 2009 missed work just 3.3 percent of the time, or 7.3 work days, new data from the federal health ministry found.
The newspaper Die Welt reported on Monday that the figure was among the lowest that had been recorded since the health ministry began collecting data on sick days in 1970.
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