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When can you stay at home?
There is no simple answer.
You can’t decide on your own that you won’t come to work anymore out of fear of the COVID-19 virus (Corona). Your employer can give you a warning notice or terminate your contact in response.
If you had contact with a person infected with the Corona virus, clarify as soon as possible whether you have to be quarantined. If it is necessary to stay away from your workplace due to a medical suspicion of Corona, you must inform your employer immediately and submit a certificate of incapacity to work. According to the regulations, all persons infected with the Corona virus must be reported to the public health department by the doctor treating them. In the case of quarantine, you must stay at home and your wages will be paid by the employer as before.
In principal, when you are sick and unable to work – due to the Corona virus or something else – you receive a certificate of incapacity to work from your doctor, which you must send as soon as possible to the employer and the health insurance company. In this case, you will continue to receive your salary.
Due to the current situation, until 23 June 2020 it is possible to get a 14-day certificate of incapacity from a doctor by calling on the phone only, without a personal check-up. You will get the certificate by post to your home.
However, this is only valid for:
Patients with respiratory diseases showing light symptoms
Patients with respiratory diseases showing light symptoms, if also the suspicion of having contacted the virus exists
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