Spahn increases pressure on unvaccinated people: now there is a risk of loss of wages! The first countries are advancing

If Jens Spahn has his way, unvaccinated people in quarantine will soon no longer be reimbursed their wages.

The first federal states are already rushing forward and stop making replacement payments.

Berlin - In the tough battle for a higher vaccination rate, Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn * is increasingly relying on money as a means of pressure.

After the already decided from the free corona tests *, unvaccinated people will soon be asked to pay in the quarantine case - but the sums involved are completely different than 20 euros for a rapid test.

The following still applies: Anyone who is sent to quarantine and cannot work is entitled to wage replacement payments.

Whether one is vaccinated or not does not play a role in current practice - although the relevant regulation in the Infection Protection Act states that the claim can be waived if the quarantine could have been avoided by a vaccination.

Quarantine: Spahn wants to stop wage replacement payments for unvaccinated workers

Now the passage could soon be implemented nationwide, because on Wednesday (September 9th) Spahn spoke out in

favor of wage deductions for unvaccinated workers in the event of a quarantine,

according to

.

"I don't see why others should pay in the long run if someone doesn't opt ​​for the free vaccination if they could," said Spahn.

The handling of wage replacement payments lies with the federal states, said Spahn according to the

.

But he could understand very well if unvaccinated workers were not entitled to continued wages in the case of quarantine.

Spahn's argument: "In the end, it is the taxpayers who finance the wage replacement benefit - for someone who could have been vaccinated." The first federal states have already decided to stop payments.

Unvaccinated people face loss of wages - Lauterbach criticizes Spahn's quarantine initiative: "Not all lateral thinkers"

Criticism for Spahn's approach came from the SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach *: “I think wage deductions due to quarantine are wrong.

Not all unvaccinated people are lateral thinkers, we simply haven't reached many with our campaign.

Sick people must not be punished for wrongdoing, and certainly not for not vaccinating, ”he wrote on Twitter.

The costs that have arisen in the past one and a half years of the corona pandemic * through continued wage payments are tough.

According to the

, they amount to around 458 million euros.

Almost half of this is in North Rhine-Westphalia (120 million euros) and Bavaria (83 million euros).

Wage replacement in the case of quarantine: In these federal states, unvaccinated people will soon be left empty-handed

Two federal states have already reacted. From September 15, Baden-Württemberg no longer pays compensation for unvaccinated persons in the event of quarantine, Rhineland-Palatinate from October 1. Hesse has also announced the payment stop, according to

information, but did not give a date. Berlin does not want to change anything, Bavaria wants to decide on compensation in each individual case. In many other federal states, the decision is still pending. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein are calling for a uniform regulation for all of Germany.