{"id":381148,"date":"2026-09-22T22:01:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T21:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/good-bye-good-pay-germanys-job-model-is-at-risk-dw-news\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T22:01:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T21:01:04","slug":"good-bye-good-pay-germanys-job-model-is-at-risk-dw-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/good-bye-good-pay-germanys-job-model-is-at-risk-dw-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Good-bye, good pay? Germany&#8217;s job model is at risk | DW News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/fM66MvyEKQo\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Good-bye, good pay? Germany's job model is at risk | DW News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fM66MvyEKQo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Employers are calling for longer working hours, while unions are defending the shorter workweek. Germany&#8217;s 35-hour workweek, long seen as a symbol of strong worker protections and high wages, is facing growing pressure. As manufacturing struggles with rising costs, weak demand and fierce competition from China, employers argue that Germany needs to cut labor costs to stay competitive. Can Germany work its way out of the crisis by working more? #dwbusiness <\/p>\n<p>For more news go to: http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Follow DW on social media:<br \/>\n\u25baInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deutschewellenews\/<br \/>\n\u25baTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baReddit: https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/DWNews\/<\/p>\n<p>F\u00fcr Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dwdeutsch<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employers are calling for longer working hours, while unions are defending the shorter workweek. Germany&#8217;s 35-hour workweek, long seen as a symbol of strong worker protections and high wages, is facing growing pressure. As manufacturing struggles with rising costs, weak demand and fierce competition from China, employers argue that Germany needs to cut labor costs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":381149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130889],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-381148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dw-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Good-bye, good pay? Germany&#039;s job model is at risk | DW News | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Good-bye, good pay? Germany&#039;s job model is at risk | DW News for free, here on News ISC. 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