Status: 09.09.2021 8:12 p.m.
In several federal states there are plans to discontinue payment of wages for people who refuse a vaccination and have to be in quarantine. The general public does not have to pay for these costs, so the argument goes.
Anyone who has not been vaccinated against Corona in Rhineland-Palatinate and receives an official order to quarantine will no longer be entitled to continued payment of wages from October. In support of this, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health announced that from October 1st it can be assumed that “all citizens in the age groups in which the vaccination was publicly recommended and insofar as the vaccination is medically possible for them, an offer for the Have received corona vaccination “.
In the event of an officially ordered quarantine, employees are entitled to compensation under the Infection Protection Act. According to the Infection Protection Act, however, this is no longer the case if a publicly recommended vaccination could have avoided isolation or a ban on activity, the spokeswoman said.
In Baden-Württemberg, the end of continued wage payments for unvaccinated people has already been decided on September 15. “We assume that everyone in Baden-Württemberg had the opportunity to have a vaccination by September 15,” said the head of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Uwe Lahl. Anyone who voluntarily allows the vaccination offer to expire must expect to receive no compensation for the loss of earnings caused by the quarantine.
Bear consequences for decision not to vaccinate
North Rhine-Westphalia’s Health Minister Karl-Josef Laumann also spoke out against further continued payment of wages for unvaccinated people in the event of quarantine. “So it is completely clear that if I take the liberty of not being vaccinated – although according to all findings, vaccination is the only way to get this pandemic under control – then I have to for the consequences that arise from it, too take full personal responsibility “. He will examine appropriate legal options in the coming days and make a decision.
“Can’t be that the community has to pay for it”
Several other countries are also planning similar steps, as reported by the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”. Bavaria’s Minister of Health, Klaus Holetschek, told the newspaper that anyone who did not get vaccinated, although there were no health reasons against it, did not, in his view, be entitled to reimbursement of the loss of earnings. Then it could “not be that the community has to pay for it”.
There are also considerations in this direction in Hesse and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Lower Saxony’s health minister Daniela Berens told the “SZ” that her department would consider suspending payments from mid-October, after all, by then “everyone would have received a vaccination offer”.
Berlin and Hamburg want to keep paying
According to the report, only in Berlin and Hamburg do the state governments apparently have no intention of canceling payments for unvaccinated people.