3-G rule in the workplace? These rules will apply in future in Corona “hotspots” in Bavaria

The Bavarian cabinet has decided on some new corona regulations.

In the “hotspots”, stricter rules will also apply in the workplace in the future.

The number of new Corona * infections is increasing rapidly.

Therefore, as in

or

the corona rules have been partially adapted.

And that also applies in part to the world of work.

In

,

a

apply

in future in “

”

.

Because with a number of 600 intensive care patients, the hospital traffic light jumps to red, as the Bavarian cabinet had decided on Wednesday, among other things.

According to

, the

reorganization of the hospital traffic lights will come

into force on Saturday (November 6th), and the changed hospital traffic lights will have an impact on Sunday.

According to

,

“hotspots”

in Bavaria are those districts in which, on the one hand, the 7-day incidence of 300 has been exceeded and, on the other hand, at least 80 percent of the intensive care beds are used.

The strict rules that are provided for the red traffic light apply to these areas. 

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What does that mean in

concrete terms for employees

in possible

?

For companies with more than ten employees, the 3G rule applies when there is a red light, dpa said - "Employees who have neither been vaccinated nor recovered must be tested".

And BR24 also reports on the 3 duty at work that starts at a red traffic light.

"A simple rapid test is sufficient, twice a week for unvaccinated people," said

e about the details.

"This applies to companies with more than ten employees or if there is contact with customers." Trade and public transport are excluded from this.

Corona rules in Baden-Württemberg - what applies in the workplace?

The

corona rules were also recently tightened

in

. A multi-level warning system applies there. What can the stricter rules mean for the world of work? The

reported on

(as of November 5): “In all three levels of the warning system in BW, there is still a test obligation for employees and self-employed people with contact to external persons - i.e. customer contact, contact to suppliers, external employees , Clients, wards, etc. "Anyone who has not been vaccinated or has not recovered has to be tested twice a week in Baden-Württemberg," the report says, "either through the employer or otherwise". Rapid antigen tests are sufficient.

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3-G rule in the workplace?

No national legal framework

What about a nationwide legal regulation regarding a kind of 3G or 2G rule in the workplace? So far there has been no national legal framework in this country, such as in France, Austria and Italy, "to link access to the workplace to a vaccination against the SARS-CoV-2 virus or to the convalescent status or negative test results in all industries", such as

(as of November 2) in a post on the subject. The infection protection law provides the right to a vaccination status query "only for a few professional fields such as the employees of care facilities and daycare centers," it also says in the report. However, according to this, "individual federal states such as

and

allow

2G in the workplace".

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Companies offer extra canteen areas for vaccinated and convalescent people

The first German companies would now, however, advance with their own rules, it was said on

, "to reduce the risk of infection through differentiated rules for

and

on the one hand and

on the other hand". The dpa had also reported on it: In the Corona crisis, some companies offer vaccinated persons and employees who have recovered from Corona

or their own cafeterias. In these special areas, employees are likely to sit together without protective specifications, while those who are not vaccinated or who do not provide information about their vaccination status would have to continue to live with distance rules, masks or partitions when eating, such as those

, citing a survey of companies in North Rhine-Westphalia, reported.

Corresponding plans are currently still being examined in some cases.

According to the dpa report, other companies referred to a continued high number of employees in the home office in view of the increasing number of infections - which is why company canteens are also less frequented.

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