Overview
- The government plans to present an Eckpunktepapier at Wednesday's special Entlastungskabinett meeting as the framework for broad deregulation.
- Nearly 200 ministry proposals have been collected, with about 20 expected to become draft laws and roughly eight slated for cabinet decisions this week, according to Handelsblatt reporting cited by AFP.
- Labour Minister Bärbel Bas proposes lifting the obligation to appoint a safety officer for firms with fewer than 50 employees and capping the requirement at one for companies up to 250 employees.
- Bas also plans a digital Work-and-Stay agency to streamline skilled-worker immigration, estimating her ministry's measures would relieve the economy by about €200 million per year.
- Digital minister Karsten Wildberger aims to consolidate the package into a single law within roughly three months, with the Chancellery expecting mid- to upper single-digit billions in savings and reports noting resistance within ministries.