Covid-Chatter Over Sick Leave

 If you follow government Covid-chatter of the past two weeks....the new policy has come up (to be enforced).....if you are a non-vax person and get Covid....your unemployment insurance will NOT kick on.  

Loss of wages for a 14-day period?  Yeah.  The government figures this will finally fix things.

So companies have looked over the tactic.  If you follow Focus....they chatted about this analysis to some degree.  Companies suggest that people will just withhold their quarantine status.  Asking for regular leave time?  Why wouldn't they?  If you figure most Germans get around 35 days of leave per year and rarely does quarantine go past a fourteen day period....you'd be throwing away 10 of your regular leave days.

The crowd mostly affected?  The 450-Euro folks (mini-job types), and the full-time but marginal pay folks.  There's no statistical evidence to say that they fit into this whole discussion.  

To be legally challenged?  Oh, that's guaranteed.  The fact that you take this out as a mandated thing (the insurance money to cover things), then if you say it won't apply....why would you bother paying into the 'fund'?  Added to this discussion....if the vaccinated guy gets Covid....yet gets paid during the sick leave period....isn't there something wrong with  that logic as well?

The other part to this discussion....if you felt kinda bad but still capable of working....why bother going to a doctor to be told you have Covid?  I could see marginally Covid-sick folks just bearing with the virus for the first day or two....taking four days off (regular leave) and going back to work....possibly passing it to forty-odd customers/co-workers.  Some phrase like 'work-through-Covid' will be invented to describe these folks who just 'grin-and-bear' it.  In this stupid logic, most companies will turn and face the Health Ministry.....angry over the rules and blaming them for making a bigger mess out of this.

So settle back and watch this unfold for the next month or two, and how the courts drag themselves into the middle of the mess.