Linz takes a special approach when dealing with Corona-positive employees: After the end of the quarantine, the municipality decided on Monday that infected people are not allowed to appear at their workplace. This also applies to the staff of municipal childcare and elderly care. Mayor Klaus Luger (SP) justified the decision by saying that it wanted to protect children, people in need and colleagues.
The national ordinance has only been providing traffic restrictions instead of quarantine since Monday. This means that you are no longer isolated after a positive test, but – if you are not on sick leave due to symptoms – you have to go to work and wear an FFP2 mask. Excluded are people who cannot do their work with a mask or who cannot wear a mask for medical reasons.
protection for workers
The following will apply to the nearly 3,000 employees of the Magistrate Linz in the future: anyone who is complaint-free and can do their work at home will have to switch to the home office. Where this is not possible, you will be released from service. This guarantees protection for the employees, especially for those who cannot work permanently with a mask or in the home office, such as in the city garden center, in the street care or in kindergartens. The city also said it would not deploy infected personnel in the city’s retirement homes.
You cannot work until you have lifted the traffic restrictions. “Unlike in the past, the magistrate no longer receives compensation for these voluntary exemptions,” emphasizes Luger.
Source: Krone
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