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Hanover (dpa / lni) - The new home office regulation designed by the Federal Ministry of Labor has been rejected by employers in Lower Saxony.
The chief executive of the employers' associations in the country, Volker Müller, confirmed on Wednesday that general guidelines for more work from home miss the planning reality of many companies.
This is a matter of “bureaucratic actionism” without an adequate database, because companies and their employees regulate in a decentralized manner what is actually possible in terms of mobile work.
"In addition, the state has missed to expand broadband capacities across the board so that mobile working and home schooling are possible everywhere at the same time," criticized Müller.
After the recent talks on the corona situation between the heads of government of the federal states and Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), employers should now have to explain the exact reasons for their employees not to work from home. Lower Saxony's Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) said: "I welcome the fact that uniform regulations are now supposed to ensure that home office becomes the norm in professional practice wherever it is at all possible." Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) presented details of the planned requirements on Wednesday.