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Home office: Heil wants digital time recording at home - and 24 days of legal entitlement for everyone

2020-10-04T12:29:42.680Z


Labor Minister Hubertus Heil wants to enforce a legal right to work from home. There should also be a kind of digital time clock.


Labor Minister Hubertus Heil wants to enforce a legal right to work from home.

There should also be a kind of digital time clock.

Berlin -

Labor Minister Hubertus Heil

(SPD) plans to

legally

guarantee

employees

at least 24 days of

home office

per year.

He announced this in "Bild am Sonntag".

He

has already completed the

Mobile Work Act

”.

According to this, the employer should

only be able to reject

mobile work

if there are understandable, organizational or operational reasons.

"Wherever possible, all employees should be legally entitled to at least 24 days per year for

mobile work

," said Heil.

The reason for the law are the findings from the

Corona *

pandemic

: "The virus has taught us that much more

mobile work is

possible than we thought.

Mobile working is not only for young people from agencies who sit in a café with a laptop and a latte macchiato.

Because mobile working is already part of the modern world of work for some, but is not yet made possible for many, a

law

is needed for it

. ”According to a study on

home office

in the

Corona *

pandemic

of

At the Federal Ministry of Labor

, 36 percent of employees worked from home in July and August.

In the same period of the previous year, the share was 24 percent.

87 percent of the

mobile workers

were "very satisfied" or "satisfied".

Home office: “Mobile work law” meets with criticism

Heil hopes that this will improve the compatibility of family and work: “If both parents have a job in which

mobile working is

feasible, one of the parents can take turns working from home for one day every week, according to my suggestion.

That makes family life much easier. ”The German Trade Union Federation (DGB) considers the“

Mobile Work Act

”to be insufficient.

“The planned legal entitlement of only up to 24 days is clearly not enough.

That means just one day of

mobile work

every two weeks, ”said DGB boss Reiner Hoffmann.

That hardly meets the needs of many employees.

"Such a minimum requirement is a concession to

employers

who are still blocking the issue."

Above all, I think it's good that it should be called “Mobile Work Law” instead of “Right to work from home”.

That is much better because we are increasingly working in many different places.

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- Markus Albers (@albersmark) October 4, 2020

Salvation, however, stressed that the 24 days were a lower limit to allow the employees, "with their boss via

mobile working

to negotiate." However, could not bake from home bread baker course. "

Mobile working

should be rejected on principle with the law but no longer possible.

"In the future, boss and employees will negotiate on an equal footing," said Heil.

Also

FDP *

-Arbeitsmarktexperte

Johannes Vogel is critical.

A modern legal framework is "long overdue".

But the Working Hours Act remains completely unaffected.

“But this law is completely out of date.

We urgently need more freedom as to where and when to work, ”said Vogel.

Economics Minister Peter Altmaier

(CDU) had already

positioned

himself in May against the

home office legal claim

.

"Above all, we need less bureaucracy, not always new state guarantees," he told the dpa.

Home office: The working hours should now be documented

The law also includes the obligation to

digitally record time

- to protect the employee.

“Working from home shouldn't mean that you don't even let go of work.

In the

home office

,

too, it

has to end at some point, ”explains Heil.

There are also

new regulations

in the area of ​​statutory

accident insurance

: “Statutory accident insurance covers the way to work.

Even with

mobile work

, for example, the way to daycare or school and from there back to the home office should be insured, ”said Heil.

* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital central network.

List of rubric lists: © dpa / Bernd von Jutrczenka

Source: merkur

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