As soon as the home office regulation has been passed, companies want to bypass it: A case from Bavaria is now causing a stir.
The
home office regulation
, which Federal Labor
Minister
Heil recently launched *, is a good thing: The infection rate with the corona virus should be significantly reduced.
But not all employers seem to be of this opinion, as a case from Bavaria shows.
Home office regulation: boss threatens employees with dismissal if they work at home
According to ZDF information, the
head of an
industrial service company
is said to have
threatened
his employees with
dismissal
if they should
exercise
their rights and
go to the home office
.
An employee told the ZDFheute broadcast that she had been put under massive pressure by her superior in a conversation.
"I have to offer you this now," said the boss and held out a letter to her.
In the letter that ZDF has, the employee should tick whether she wants to participate in the home office or continue to work in the office.
After all, your
workplace is "theoretically" suitable for home office
.
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Termination of home office: Company denies allegations
But appearances are deceptive.
As the employee describes to the broadcaster, the boss is said to have blatantly threatened: If you want to work from home, you are welcome to do so.
But then he'll get the
money from the employment office
in the
future
.
Termination because employees are exercising their right to work from home in the pandemic?
In a message, the company denies ZDFheute that it threatened employees with "termination or other disadvantages".
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Employer associations criticize home office regulation
Since the decision, it has become apparent
that many
employers
are
not very enthusiastic about the home office regulation
.
The managing director of the Gesamtmetall employers' association, Oliver Zander, described the agreed
specifications for more home offices as "unacceptable"
, as reported by the German press agency.
According to Markus Jerger, head of the Federal Association of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, the guidelines even curtail entrepreneurial self-determination in an inadmissible manner, according to the dpa.
Other companies see
red
on the subject of
corona vaccination
: A roofing company threatened its employees via Facebook with dismissal if they were vaccinated.
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