The coronavirus and the flu wave cause a lot of lost work.
Anyone who is sick must be put on sick leave.
You can find out here whether you can also send your AU by email.
Do you feel weak and unable to work?
Then you are like a thousand other employees.
Countless employees are caught by the flu in autumn and winter.
In addition, there is still the coronavirus, so that many are talking about a fourth wave.
But anyone who is sick has
to report
sick to
their employer immediately
.
Notification of illness is often not enough.
If you are out of action for several days or if the company requires a sickness certificate from the first day of absence, you must obtain a certificate of incapacity for work (AU) from your doctor.
The sick note must be received by the employer relatively quickly *.
You can find out here whether you can also send your AU by email.
Can I send the sick note by email?
That's what the law says
When and in which cases an AU must be received by the employer is regulated by the Continued Remuneration Act. Section 5 states that “a medical certificate stating the incapacity for work and its expected duration must be submitted no later than the next job”. The company can therefore ask for the original AU. However, the law does not regulate the
form in which the sick leave must be received by the employer
. Many companies are now very flexible here and allow AU by email or even via WhatsApp.
Very important:
Make sure that the certificate of incapacity for work actually arrives by email, otherwise you will violate the information obligation.
But just scan in the sick note and send it, that's not all.
This is how you really report sick by e-mail.
As soon as the employee feels able to walk to the mailbox again, he can send the original by post.
As this varies from company to company, you should
check with your employer in the HR department
.
AU in paper form before the end - relief for all employees
So far, notification of sickness has mainly caused one thing for employees: a mess of paper! One template was sent to the health insurance company, one template was for the employer and a sick note was intended for your own filing. But that ended
on October 1st
. The "yellow bill" is about to end, as reported by 24vita.de *. The
sick note will be digitized with immediate effect,
medical practices will now forward the sick note directly to the health insurance company.
After all, this eliminates an annoying step.
However, insured persons must continue to send the AU to their employer until the summer of next year.
From July 2022, the health insurance company will then take over the electronic transmission of the sick note
and forward it to the company.
Only then does the employee's statutory obligation cease to apply.
(pm) * Merkur.de and 24vita.de are offered by IPPEN.MEDIA.
