As Jens Stadler reads a message from his boss, smash his hopes permanently. Because of the Corona-crisis conferences are expected to be, appointments to be moved, – stated in the message. In addition, the work in the office will switch to two shifts, one early, one late. Oh, and holiday wishes, if someone should have it for next time, would also be appreciated.
The word “home office” on the Stadler had so hoped for, is in the message only once. Namely, at the point where it says that there will be no home office. “We must now also ask,” says Stadler. “Finally, you’ve said many times, that there is none to give.”
fear of work
Stadler works in a so-called “centre of expertise” of the big health insurance The technician. The “centres of expertise” are distributed over the entire Federal territory, each center takes care of a private issue. For example, there are specialist centres for orthopaedic technology, expertise centres for rehabilitation or centres of expertise, which are simply concerned with the settlement of members ‘ contributions. All in All, it is almost always to: office work on the Computer. To the home office, Stadler is not allowed anyway.
Stadler is actually different, his true Name and his place of work are FOCUS Online known. In the Corona-crisis, he became part of a group that has so far found little attention: to get employees who could work in the current virus pandemic at home, but by the employer will be forced to the office the risk of Infection – in Spite of. “I’m really scared,” says Stadler.
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FOCUS Online has in the last few days, with employees from many industries and all firm sizes is spoken, where it is similar is. Since the sales are, for example, employees who are not customers of appointments, but still to the office have to come, because it was just the way it is in the contract of employment. Or the medical technology company in southern Germany, the first after a community Protest of the employees allowed for the possibility of a home office. Several employees said their superiors had told them in the face, that employees would be in the home office only on the rotten skin.
Almost all affected companies have in common is that the management failed, an organizational Plan for the time of the virus pandemic to develop. About the Munich-based company from the financial sector, the it missed, get special Laptops for all staff and then the supplier no longer got. In many companies, the first information about the changes to the work process were communicated only in the middle of March to the employee, as Bavaria and Berlin, had already adopted drastic restrictions of public life. In an internal E-Mail from a German company for Hygiene needs, the FOCUS Online is present, speak to the managing Director of the “Corono-crisis”.
Suddenly the chief tatscht the food to
In some companies, in turn, the superiors did not take the pandemic seriously. Two employees from various industries said to FOCUS Online, their bosses would have made a fun of it, the food and the personal items of employees to handle. “I was then thrown pointedly my Apple in the trash,” says a concerned employee. In the South-German company for medical technology, was the proviso that they could now finally pull out of the Chinese competition, say employees.
More of the Coronavirus
The alternative solutions, the employees, instead of working from home are offered, often create new problems. In the case of Jens Stadler: The now introduced “layers” in the location of the techniker Krankenkasse are shorter than regular working days, the missing hours will then be deducted simply from the working time account – every day. In just a few weeks, the employees build up a significant minus hours account. “As many hours as I can to catch up, never,” says Stadler.
distance from the minimum of
In the cramped offices, it was also hardly possible, the required minimum distance of 1.5 meters apart. The rooms, even the chiefs, in a message, a present FOCUS Online.
“The described case does not correspond to the recommended General procedures,” says a spokeswoman for the technician health insurance to FOCUS Online. Although nationwide home office for technical and data protection reasons is currently not possible. However, in the case of employees who have not to do with sensitive data, and where the technical conditions are given, is the home office allowed “given the current exceptional situation” specifically.
“The thanks I get is what? Maybe an infection?“
Sometimes the Problem is not with the company itself, but in the case of each of the persons within the chain of command. About the retail company Real: In the düsseldorf-based management of the supermarket chain, the Department heads are instructed, explicitly, to send their employees home. “Please make sure that a large part of the employees will be working at home tomorrow,” – said in an E-Mail to the personnel Department to all head of the of 16. In March, the FOCUS Online is. “In principle, only those will work on the Campus, if this is absolutely necessary.”
to define How this “strictly necessary” to the unit leaders leave. Service plans, the FOCUS is available Online also, show that the employees must come in at least one Department is still in the office. “We could do everything from home, have yet alternately, the duty to be in the office,” says a concerned employee. “And that’s only because our field line is not afraid, that we are working properly.”
It is the nonsense that annoys the employee: “We work very well, and conscientiously, sometimes even more than we did in the office. Thanks – Yes, what? Maybe even an infection, because you had to go to the office, although you can make everything at home would have?“
No employee could do his work from home, will be forced to appear in the Central, stated in an opinion of the Real against FOCUS Online. “It should lead to ambiguities, we see the competent works Council, as well as, of course, also the staff area to clarify the appropriate point of contact.” In addition, the home office rate well over 90 percent spent in all areas of the Central “” emphasizes Real in his opinion.
“There is no right to a home office”
Legally, everything is waterproof, says labour law expert Tobias Törnig of the düsseldorf-based law firm FPS to FOCUS Online. “There is no right to a home office,” explains Törnig. “Currently, there are no instructions of the authorities, which would make the Work impossible. Ways to work are exempt from the current restrictions explicitly.“
Although employers have a duty of care, the risk of a Corona minimize infection in the workplace – complying with minimum distances, the provision of disinfectants, such things. But, says Törnig: “Alone, the worry may infect themselves or others, is no reason, from the work to stay away from. How to assess the work of donors also whether or not this concern is justified?“ The only Doctors could.
in fact, many companies are already passed to your staff to issue laissez passer, the confirm your carrier to be an employee – if an employee is on the way to the work of the police is controlled. Jens Stadler and all the others will make your next day on the way to the office, the danger of Infection or not.
Although, not all of them. Some have opted for a different solution, says an employee at FOCUS Online: “After us, the management of the company on Friday has said that there will be no home office, have reported on Monday, three people sick.”
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