The amended Infection Protection Act makes employees and employers more responsible.
You can find out what is now changing in the job here.
With the amendment to the
Infection
Protection Act
* and the nationwide emergency brake it contains, the federal government is tightening the corona rules for employees and employers.
This should finally break the 3rd wave of the coronavirus.
However, the new law also relieves parents.
Which new job rules apply immediately:
Home office duty also applies to employees
Federal Labor
Minister
Hubertus Heil SPD has
nailed his
head and made
home office compulsory a law
.
"The regulations on home office are being refined and incorporated into the Infection Protection Act," declared the Federal Ministry of Labor.
From now on it is not only employers who are obliged to offer their employees home office wherever possible.
Also,
workers are now obliged to work from home
, "as far turn, no reasons to the contrary", as stated by the Federal Ministry of Labor.
Reasons can be, for example, a disruption by a third party in the home office or a lack of an adequate workplace.
Read on:
Mandatory home office: Employees now have to stay at home - only a few exceptions allowed.
Compulsory testing for companies
Although the compulsory test for companies was only introduced on April 20, 2021, the Federal Ministry of Labor is once again tightening this up: "In future, all employees who do not work exclusively from home should be
entitled to two test offers per week
in the company," said Heil am April 21 in the cabinet with.
Previously, only one test per week was planned, except for employees with an increased risk of infection.
All tests that provide direct pathogen detection of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, i.e.
rapid
antigen
tests, self-tests or PCR tests
, are permitted
.
However, employees do not have to accept this test offer.
More on the topic:
Corona tests in companies: What does mandatory testing mean for employees?
Child sick days increased
In order to relieve working parents with homeschooling and childcare, the number of childhood illness days has also been further increased with the Corona emergency brake: from 20 days
per parent and child to 30 days
.
For single parents, the entitlement will be increased from 40 to 60 days.
Parents can use the childhood
illness days
not only for sick children, but also to take time off
from work
if the children cannot go to daycare or school due to the pandemic.
During this time, employees are entitled to child sickness benefit amounting to 90 percent of net earnings.
Due to corona-related restrictions at daycare centers and schools, the number of sick days had already increased at the beginning of the year.
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