German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a cabinet meeting of the German government at the chancellery in Berlin on Nov. 22. Merkel must now find a consensus across the political divide on issues such as immigration, climate change and affordable housing. Germany’s labor laws are nearly a century oldExisting German law places strict limits on time spent at work. Similar sentiments have been voiced by German labor unions. Its exit from a governing coalition will make it substantially harder for Merkel to change the rules as she would like.

Source: Washington Post November 27, 2017 12:06 UTC