Corona quarantine: will the salary continue to be paid if I am not working?

Not everyone who has to be in quarantine can work from home.

Will employees then continue to receive their salary?

We show how payment is regulated in isolation.

After contact with a Covid-19 patient, the health department orders quarantine *.

Those affected then usually have to go into self-isolation for 14 days in order not to unintentionally spread the coronavirus.

But what about the salary in quarantine?

Or do workers in isolation get nothing?

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Quarantine and salary: who pays it?

As a rule, quarantined workers

.

Who is responsible for this, however, depends on various factors - for example, whether you are sick in quarantine:

• You are sick with Covid-19:

  If you are in quarantine because

  you are sick

  with Covid-19, you will receive a certificate of incapacity for work (AU) from your doctor.

  With this, he reports sick to his employer.

  As with any other illness, continued wages are paid through the employer.

• They do not show any symptoms of a Covid-19 disease:

  According to the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, the doctor is not allowed to take sick leave if you have no symptoms such as cough, fever or sore throat in quarantine.

  This applies even if you tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.

• In this case, the employee receives

  compensation according to the Infection Protection Act, in the amount of the net salary.

  For this purpose, the employee submits the official notification of the quarantine order to the employer.

  Compensation is paid during the first six weeks of quarantine.

  The employer can in turn get this back from the responsible authorities.

  From the seventh week onwards, the employee receives a payment equal to the sickness benefit.

Exception: quarantine due to return from risk area

But be careful: Anyone who has to

be quarantined

because of an

will

for the loss of wages

Protection Act (Section 56 (1) sentence 3 IfSG).

That is through the Third Civil Protection Act

regulated.

If you cannot do a home office in this case, you will get nothing.

Working in quarantine - yes or no?

Even in quarantine, there is a

as long as work

can be done

in the

.

Anyone who pursues a job where this is not possible is usually exempt from their work obligation (read more about this here).

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Further sources: Lawyers Gleiss Lutz, Finanztipp.

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