The examination of patient data is supposed to make it possible to ensure that the 25 percent quota is not exceeded. Railway wage negotiations adjourned without agreement Frankfurt a. M. Wage negotiations for the approximately 180,000 employees of the German Railway have been adjourned until 20 August, no agreement having yet been reached. The corporation's management had not put an offer on the table. The central point of the talks is aligning the incomes of approximately 96,000 railway workers in the East with the Western level.
Federal government wants to abolish tax breaks Bonn.
The governing coalition of CDU and FDP apparently wants to abolish some tax breaks and subsidies to a tune of at least tens of billions of Marks, in order to finance a drastic lowering of wage deductions and income taxes. Tour company Hetzel goes bankrupt Stuttgart. The tour company Hetzel registered bankruptcy today. According to the German Travel Price Insurance Association, this is the largest insolvency case known of a tour company. The company said it went broke because a rehabilitation plan failed.