Compulsory vaccination for certain professions, 3G rule, home office: What the traffic light parties are currently planning for employees

Due to the rapidly growing incidence numbers, the traffic light parties are tightening their corona plans.

We show what could soon await employees nationwide.

The possible future government partners SPD, Greens and FDP are currently negotiating a package of corona measures that should put a stop to the rapidly growing fourth wave of the corona pandemic.

Even a partial compulsory vaccination * no longer seems to be ruled out.

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The traffic light parties plan these corona rules for the workplace:

• 3G at work, nationwide:

  3G is already mandatory in Bavaria *, but it could soon follow nationwide:

  "Employers and employees are only allowed to enter workplaces in which physical contact between employers and employees or with third parties cannot be ruled out (...) if they are vaccinated people, recovered people or tested people (...) and a Have a vaccination certificate, a recovered certificate or a test certificate with you, "the

  Tagesspiegel

  quotes

  the draft of the new infection protection law from the SPD, FDP and the Greens. The results of PCR tests may be 48 hours old, and of rapid tests a maximum of 24 hours. It is currently unclear who will have to pay for the costs of the corona tests in the workplace.

• Obligation to provide information on vaccination status:

  According to

  Tagesspiegel,

  employers should be given

  a right to information in order to be able to check the status of their employees for vaccinated, tested or recovered. For this purpose, according to the draft, "personal data as well as data on the vaccination, sero and test status in relation to the Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19)" may be processed.

• Return of the home office obligation:

  In addition, the home office obligation is to be reintroduced, which has already proven itself in the last Corona winter: "In the case of office work or comparable activities, the employer must offer employees to carry out these activities in their home, if there are no compelling operational reasons to the contrary. The employees have to accept this offer, as long as there are no reasons to the contrary, ”the draft of the new Corona law continues according to

  Tagesspiegel

  .

• Compulsory vaccination for certain professions:

  According to the Green Party leader Katrin Göring-Eckardt, the members of the desired traffic light coalition agree on the introduction of mandatory vaccination in certain areas.

  “We will need a compulsory vaccination for facilities, for nursing homes, for day-care centers, etc.

  We will get this off the ground, ”said Göring-Eckardt on Monday

  (November 15)

  in Berlin, according to a report by the German Press Agency (dpa)

  .

  However, this is not part of the reform of the Infection Protection Act, but a separate legislative process, according to Göring-Eckardt, according to dpa.

Employees should be careful with corona symptoms

Harmless cold or corona?

Corona symptoms can often be inconspicuous.

Vaccinated people in particular often only have mild cold symptoms.

Is it even allowed to go to work with a cold?

You can find out here.