One in ten goes to work with an acute corona infection
Created: 10/17/2022, 5:30 p.m
By: Carina Blumenroth
Body aches, scratchy throat - a simple cold or corona symptoms.
A study has found that every tenth person goes to work with Corona.
Wearing a mask, keeping your distance, regular corona tests, these are a few measures you can take to protect yourself and others.
At work, however, many do not see it so strictly.
According to a study by the BBK Pronova, one in ten should go to work with an acute corona infection.
The study is available to the newspapers of the Funke media group.
One in ten goes to work despite a positive corona test.
(Iconic image) © Antonio Guillem/Imago
Off to the office with a mild course of Corona
Despite a positive test, every tenth of those surveyed go to the office with a mild course of the corona virus.
17 percent say they only stay home until the worst symptoms subside.
Around 8 percent make their decision to stay in bed at home or go to the office depending on how much work is pending.
This is not only dangerous for your own health, but above all for your colleagues.
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Corona infection in the office: "Unacceptable risk"
The consulting physician at Pronova, Gerd Herold, considers people who go to work despite a corona infection to be an “unacceptable risk” for colleagues.
However, he also believes that the attitude to work has changed over the course of the pandemic, as reported by
Business
Insider: "Some are worried about being considered lazy or expecting their colleagues to represent them."
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No change in behavior despite a positive test?
You make yourself a criminal offence
If you are aware that you are infected and have even tested positive, then you are committing an offence.
The lawyers from
Schumacherlaw.com
write on their own website: “The corona virus is a harmful substance in the sense of [in the sense of the, editor’s note] penal code.
If you know that you are infected and infect someone, this can constitute dangerous or negligent bodily harm.” If you do not get tested despite typical symptoms, you could possibly be liable to prosecution for “negligent bodily harm”.
The transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from one infected person to another constitutes a physical injury as well as an injury to health within the meaning of § 823 Para. 1 BGB.
According to the norm, anyone who willfully or negligently intentionally or negligently injures the life, body or – among other things – the health of another person is obliged to pay damages.
Lawyers from Schumacherlaw.de, accessed on October 17, 2022
However, the proof is usually a problem, as the lawyers Kotz GbR on the website
criminal law Siegen
say: "We are talking here about the so-called causality, which must always be established.
In current practice, it is very difficult to determine which person actually contracted the coronavirus and in what form.
However, the causality must be proven in criminal law so that the criminal liability of the action can be proven.” Under certain circumstances, dangerous bodily harm may have occurred, but conditional intent is already sufficient for criminal liability: “Anyone who intentionally infects another person with the virus commits it a dangerous bodily harm.
As with all other patterns of behavior in criminal law, even the attempt is punishable.
This means that it is already sufficient for the action to be punishable if the perpetrator himself assumes that
that he has an infection.
The infection itself does not even have to be present for criminal liability.”
Corona infection at work: you should do that
In any case, let your employer know. If you have symptoms, contact your doctor so that they write you off sick.
You will receive continued salary payments for up to six weeks.
A PCR test is not necessary for sick leave, as the
RBB
reports, but a PCR test is mandatory in order to achieve a later recovered status.
If you have no symptoms, you will not be given sick leave - but you will be protected by the Infection Protection Act.
The
RBB
describes that those affected have to submit the official decision of the quarantine to the employer, then the wage will be paid for six weeks - as with a certificate of incapacity for work.
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New Corona Occupational Health and Safety Ordinance since October 2022
The new Corona Occupational Health and Safety Ordinance came into force on October 1st.
Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) says that businesses and companies can now react flexibly to the infection process.
He made the following statement on the website of the federal government: "This prevents infections in the company and avoids work and production losses." The regulation is expected to apply until April 7th, 2023. The measures at a glance:
Company hygiene concepts based on a risk assessment.
Home office option if "no operational reasons" speak against it.
Implementation of the AHA+L rule (distance, hygiene, everyday life with a mask, ventilation) at the workplaces.
Reduction of operational personal contacts, e.g. through home office.
Trial offers for all employees who work in person.
Irrespective of this, employers should support employees in taking up vaccination offers, as announced by the federal government.
The aim of the measures is to reduce employee absences due to illness and to relieve the burden on the healthcare system, the economy and infrastructure.