Sick state employees can also expect to be checked up on. According to the Stuttgarter Zeitung newspaper, Baden-Wurttemberg is the first state to be examining its 270,000 public service employees' use of sick leave.
Initial results are already in.
It has been found that in 1995, sick leave times in Baden-Wurttemberg's public service were well below the average in the private sector. Within the public service, officials have been found to take less sick time off than other employees. Yesterday the federal cabinet decided that, in the future, federal officials and employees will have to be able to show a doctor's note beginning with the first sick day, and that those who are frequently off sick will be subject to inspection visits to verify that they are home sick. Body of missing girl, Ramona, found Jena. Police discovered the girl's body in a forested area in the region around Eisenach, where she had presumably lain for some time.