If employees are prevented from working for a longer and unpredictable period due to the official orders and home office is not possible, the employer will be compensated for continued wages with the COVID-19 daily allowance. The COVID 19 daily allowance is paid from the third day of the officially ordered measure or leave of absence and is to be 100% of the employee's wages. It ends when the measure or leave of absence expires. The administration for payments of the COVID-19-Taggesldes runs over the health insurances approved for the compulsory sickness insurance. If short-time work compensation or other benefits are already granted, no COVID 19 daily allowance is paid. The alignment should take place in the following three cases in particular:
- Exemption as a particularly vulnerable worker based on Art. 7c COVID-19 Regulation, provided that the employer is unable to carry out the work obligations or replacement work from home
- Self-quarantine in close contact with a person who has an acute respiratory disease, provided that work obligations cannot be carried out from home
- If cross-border commuters are not able to get to work due to the regulations of their home country, provided that the employer is unable to fulfill the work obligations from home