Overview
- Sewing says office-based employees should plan to work longer before retirement to bolster the labor supply.
- He proposes re-examining dismissal-protection thresholds for higher-paid workers to increase flexibility.
- He urges politicians to address high sick-day rates, citing Germany’s average as roughly two to three times Switzerland’s.
- He warns that the emergence of a first AfD state premier could deter international investors and, if it enabled Bundesrat obstruction, be devastating.
- He argues reforms must be enacted within three to five years despite short-term pain, with no government responses reported yet.