Study: Germany's employer sick pay costs hit ?82 billion in 2024

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2025-08-21

Berlin (dpa) - Rising sickness rates and higher employment have pushed German employers' spending on ill employees to around ?82 billion ($96 billion) in 2024, up ?10 billion in three years, according to the Cologne-based German Economic Institute (IW). Jochen Pimpertz, a tax and social policy expert at the employer-affiliated IW, highlighted proposals to limit these costs. One option would be "waiting days," during which salary payments are susp......

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