Markus Söder and representatives of the Bavarian employers and trade unions wanted to provide a quick solution for more home offices.
There is an important change to the FFP2 mask requirement.
All results here live.
Despite the ongoing lockdown and state of emergency corona, the proportion of workers in the home office is currently falling rather than increasing.
In addition, it concerns the design of the
FFP2 mask requirement.
Bavaria's
Prime Minister
Markus Söder * (CSU *) wants to change that as soon as possible and invites you to the
home office summit
today
.
We will report
the
results
live here from 3 p.m.
4.10 p.m.: What remains of the one hour press conference on the FFP2 mask requirement and home office?
FFP2 mask requirement: The most important news here is the delay
.
After criticism from all ranks, the state government is rowing back here.
There is a
grace period of one week
before a fine is imminent if you do not wear an FFP2 mask in public transport or in the supermarket.
In addition, Söder wants to distribute
2.5 million masks to people
in
need
across
Bavaria
.
How exactly this is supposed to happen remains dangerously vague again.
Apparently the district offices or town halls should take over the distribution.
It was also declared that children up to and including 14 years of age are exempt from the mask requirement.
Adolescents only have to wear an FFP2 mask from the age of 15.
Greater protection factor in everyday life: With FFP2 masks you protect others and yourself much better.
It is about the best possible prevention against a mutated virus.
#corona pic.twitter.com/L1ZgnGoOmd
- Markus Söder (@Markus_Soeder) January 13, 2021
Home office summit:
Here analysis and summary are much more difficult - or very easy, depending on
how you
look at it.
There is nothing new or concrete.
The positions of all parties are the same as before the summit.
The unions would like to have the right to work from home or at least a legally regulated right.
Employer representatives would like to have no binding regulations.
Söder can only deliver a result in-house.
Anyone who is employed by the Free State of Bavaria will in future have the right to work from home - "wherever possible".
Accordingly, the verdict of the
Greens parliamentary group leader Ludwig Hartmann is
devastating
.
"Söder has not delivered anything,"
says the BR.
He was just disappointed.
Söder, on the other hand, wants today's date to be
understood
as the
“prelude”
to a
long process that has
to be faster.
At the end of the press conference, he compared the home office
project
with
broadband
expansion in Bavaria.
How happy this picture is, everyone can decide for themselves.
After home office summit: Greens parliamentary group leader disappointed - "Söder did not deliver anything"
3.40 p.m.:
"The result disappoints me," says the Green parliamentary group leader in the state parliament, Ludwig Hartmann.
“Markus Söder actually didn't deliver anything.” Medium-sized companies are against mandatory regulations, says a representative.
Söder wants today's conversation to be understood as the “start” of a long discussion.
He compares the project with the broadband expansion in Bavaria.
With the 2.5 million masks, according to Hartmann, the "implementation" is important.
Hartmann criticizes the mask prices in pharmacies in general.
"This is really usury for me."
Home office and postponement of the FFP2 mask requirement: The press conference in video and text
3:33 p.m.: About the FFP2 masks:
Which specific masks are actually allowed now?
Answer: FFP2 masks or masks with a protective effect comparable to that of the KN95.
The government assumes that there are enough masks for everyone.
In the work area, in the work rooms themselves, there is no FFP2 obligation, says Söder.
The 2.5 million masks for the needy are apparently to be distributed by the district administrators
- in the coming week.
How exactly this should work is also very open.
Obviously
there is nothing specific about the home office.
Söder also remains very vague about the tax incentives and who they are for, employer or employee.
Only the Free State itself, as an employer, guarantees the right to work from home “wherever possible”.
3:25 p.m
.: Now it's the turn of the new Minister of Health.
“We appeal to everyone to adhere to the FFP2 mask requirement,” he says.
Even if there is a week's grace period.
Apparently no concrete results from Söder's home office summit
3:21 p.m
.:
CSU Labor Minister Carolina Trautner
speaks.
"Where home office is possible, it should also take place," she says.
How exactly, however, remains open or up to the companies themselves.
So, as it is up to now.
We will meet again, says Trautner, that is, union representatives and employer representatives.
Translated, that means: Apart from lip service, there is no really specific regulation for more home offices that one could agree on.
Corona in Bavaria: Aiwanger hopes for faster opening through FFP2 mask requirement
3:16 p.m
.:
Aiwanger on FFP2 masks:
“It's good that we focus on quality here.” That also makes the gradual opening of the retail trade easier.
“Perhaps you would rather go back to public transport if the other person wears a proper mask.” Furthermore, “an opening perspective can be displayed much faster for me.
So that from February we may be able to open things better and faster that we might not have opened without a mask. "
Corona November help: Aiwanger promises payment by the end of January - and an increase
3:09 p.m.:
Söder is ready again.
Aiwanger is speaking now.
He assures that the November aid will be transferred by the end of January.
“We are dependent on the federal government,” he says.
At the same time, the federal government wants to work to increase the maximum emergency aid to 100,000 euros.
FFP2 mask requirement in Bavaria: grace period in the first week without fines
3:08 p.m.:
New information on the
FFP2 mask requirement
.
There is a
grace period of one week
.
So a week without fines.
2.5 million masks
are
to be made available
for
those in need
.
3:05 p.m
.: However: if
home office is
possible, there should be a
right
to it - in certain professions.
“In whole or in part,” says Söder.
Partly should also be possible.
The whole thing should be tax-favored.
3:04 p.m
.: Söder makes it clear at the beginning: There is
no obligation
to work from home for the economy.
He wants to create incentives to make more home office possible.
3 p.m.: It is probably also about the design of the FFP2 mask regulation.
2:57 p.m
.: The press conference with the results of the home office summit should start at 3 p.m.
Here live in the ticker and above in the video stream.
Munich, 12.30 p.m .:
- The Corona *
lockdown
in
Bavaria
will be tightened further.
The freedoms of all Bavarians in private and especially in the leisure area are being trimmed ever harder.
The schools and daycare centers are closed.
The only area that is still almost uncircumcised is working life.
At the same time, the corona numbers are stagnating at a very high level.
Home office summit due to the corona situation in Bavaria: Results here live from 3 p.m.
Bavaria's Prime Minister
Markus Söder
has now apparently added one and one together.
Result: A
home office summit
from 1 p.m. via video conference with representatives of the trade unions and employers in Bavaria.
How concrete the results of this summit are and whether there are any, Söder wants to
report
in a
press conference at 3 p.m.
, which we will ticker live here and broadcast via video.
Until then, expectations are high, but so are fears.
Söder
himself says in the run-up to the summit: “It is clear that something has to move when working from home.” It is unclear whether this should be based on
specific targets
, as he discussed on Monday, or on
incentives and benefits
.
But the fact is that the home office tool
has recently been used too little
.
Söders Home Office Gifpel - Already demands from both sides and criticism
Bertram Brossardt
, head of the Association of
Bavarian Business
(vbw), on the other hand, warns: In many areas this is not even possible.
On the other hand, many
union representatives are calling
for every employee to have the
right to work from home
, which even the Greens reject nationwide.
So it's exciting what's coming today.
But you probably shouldn't have too high expectations either.
So it might not have been so stupid from Söder to launch two of his topics nationwide with the FFP2 mask requirement * and the vaccination requirement.
*
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