Amid the ongoing transition of power in Germany, following the federal election in September, the country is facing an unprecedented number of Covid-19 cases, driven by a particularly infectious Delta variant. In a bid to stay on top of a rapidly deteriorating situation, the Bundestag, the interim federal government and the Länder met on Thursday 18 November. Several of the measures announced concern the world of work, including revival of remote working, introduction of the health pass and compulsory vaccination for healthcare workers.
As far as the world of work is concerned, the day played out as follows. In the morning, the Bundestag introduced the health pass requirement for workplaces; under the so-called 3G policy, workers must show that they are either vaccinated against coronavirus (geimpft), recently recovered from the virus (genesen) or have tested negative (gestest). Those who are unvaccinated must provide a new test result every day. In addition, employers are asked to redeploy remote working as much as possible.
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