في ألمانيا قاطبة منذ 1 كانون الثاني/يناير 2002 يطبق حد موحد للأجر على العمالة غير المهمة بمقدار 325 يورو في الأجر الشهري.
An ever-larger share of women work part-time (part-time working ratio among Western German women 42%, among Eastern German women 23%). With a macroeconomic volume of work which has fallen as a whole, the increasing inclusion of women in the labour market in some cases involved the redistribution of work among women.