How can Germans be encouraged to take up the Covid-19 vaccine? As the nationwide vaccination campaign continues to slowly progress (62.4% of the population vaccinated), several German Länders, including Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Westphalia, North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria, have decided to end or are considering ending compensation for unvaccinated employees who are required to observe mandatory quarantine. The federal government and the Länders want to present a joint regulation on this issue in the near future. However, the measures taken by the Länders have sparked controversy.
Conditional compensation. Until now, and under the Protection against Infection Act (Infektionsschutzgesetz), employees having to observe a quarantine period and unable to work from home have received compensation for their salary loss over their quarantine period. The employer pays the employees the compensation amount and is subsequently reimbursed by the state. However, the law also states that employees are not entitled to this compensation if they could have avoided their quarantine by und
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