Sick leave 2023: Many will soon no longer have to present a “yellow certificate” to their employer
Created: 12/24/2022, 4:00 p.m
By: Anne Hund
The paper version of the AU for your own documents can still be helpful in the future.
From next year, however, many employees will no longer have to hand them over to their employer.
From 2023, employers must participate in the notification procedure for the electronic certificate of incapacity for work (eAU).
For many employees, this means that if they are legally insured, they will no longer have to present their employer with a hard copy of the AU certificate from next year, but will in practice receive a printout for their documents.
The German Press Agency (dpa) reported this with a view to the innovation.
Sick leave 2023: This is how the new eAU procedure works
The eAu is the digital form of the yellow health insurance certificate, which you have previously received in triplicate, as the portal
t3n.de
explains - one copy for yourself, one for the employer and one for the health insurance company.
What will change in the procedure in the future?
The doctor continues to create the eAU, but immediately forwards it to the health insurance company in the system.
"From there, the employer can get all the information they need digitally, but they also have to do this actively."
From 2023, employers are obliged to participate in the registration procedure for the electronic certificate of incapacity for work (eAU).
Sick employees who are legally insured no longer have to present their employer with a paper certificate of incapacitation.
© Marijan Murat/dpa
Certificate of incapacity for work – what changes when you report sick?
The paper version of the AU for your own documents can still be helpful in the future, as the Techniker Krankenkasse informs on its website.
Because what is retained, at least for the time being, is the “medical paper certificate of incapacity to work as legally required evidence”.
In addition, employees would still be obliged to report their incapacity to work to their employer and to have this medically determined.
In other words, you go – as before – to the doctor in good time and inform your employer immediately that you are ill and how long you are likely to be absent from work.
Find out here what you have to consider when reporting sick.
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Sick leave 2023: eAU procedure does not apply to everyone
The new procedure is not used everywhere: according to the dpa, private doctors, doctors abroad, rehabilitation facilities and physiotherapists and psychotherapists are not yet involved in the new eAU procedure.
In addition, there is currently still a lack of legal regulation to implement a corresponding offer for privately insured persons.
This means that, for example, for those with private health insurance, “the old procedure” will remain in all non-statutory health insurance companies, as
t3n.de
explains.
