Overview
- The Cologne district authority confirmed a disciplinary procedure against a teacher alleged to have appeared on two TV cooking shows during roughly a year-long sick leave.
- Education Minister Dorothee Feller told a Landtag committee the Allgemeine Dienstordnung will be clarified shortly to set uniform standards for handling sickness and ordering official medical assessments.
- Feller said her ministry will work with the health ministry to accelerate amtsärztliche procedures, citing delays before teachers are examined by an official doctor.
- An FDP-obtained Lagebild shows about 1,388 beamtete teachers sick for more than six months, including 582 over a year, with only around 55 percent referred to an Amtsarzt so far.
- FDP politician Franziska Müller-Rech pressed for a binding statewide system and disclosure on whether reported TV prize money was registered as secondary income, while Feller declined details due to the ongoing case.