A sort ofEmployers of schools, kindergartens, hospitals or nursing homes will be able to check the corona vaccination status of their employees in the future so that they can respond to them.According to FAZ information, the alliance factions and Social Democratic Party Agreed on Thursday night.
In the new version, it said: “If this is necessary to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease in 2019 (COVID-19), employers can provide information or submit proof of the existence of vaccination protection or the existence of the coronavirus disease in 2019 ( COVID-19) related natural immunity needs. “Data should be collected directly from employees. This should not be forced to be vaccinated.
Embedded in the Flood Relief Act, the Health Commission Bundestag The amendment will be reviewed this Friday. The law will be passed at a special meeting of the two houses of parliament next week.
Disagreement between Heil and Spahn
There is a disagreement among the Federal Ministers of Health over the right to obtain information on the status of vaccination Jens Spann (CDU) and Secretary of Labor Hubertus Heil (SPD). The latter and his party are under pressure from unions to prevent disclosure of vaccinations, including data protection information.
However, Spann and the union saw themselves being harassed by employers and part of the public. They pointed out that among other things, the vaccination status of unvaccinated employees was unknown, which led to an outbreak of Covid-19 in the nursing home.
The compromise stipulated that there is no universal information right in the economy—such as industrial companies—applies only to particularly endangered institutions. These include schools and other training centers, kindergartens and after-school care centers, facilities and nursing facilities for the disabled, homes for the homeless, shelters for refugees or asylum-seekers, prisons, and “possibly pathogens can pass through human activities. Spread through blood”. These may include laboratories, medical practices, clinics, or certain pharmaceutical departments.
Time and content constraints
Not only is the group limited, but also limited in terms of time and content. In the amendment of the coalition and SPD parliamentary groups previously owned by FAZ, it is said that employers can only provide “employees’ personal data regarding their vaccinations and serum status related to coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19)” processing the Bundestag How to determine a nationwide epidemic. In addition, the company may “process this data only when necessary to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).”
These changes clearly show that, on the one hand, it is to protect particularly vulnerable groups, and on the other hand, to be careful in confined spaces where there are many people. Employers must be able to “use employees in different ways or avoid hiring unvaccinated people (in certain areas)” under their Covid-19 protection.
In this way, the company can arrange work in such a way that on the one hand it can “appropriate use of employees” and on the other hand it can meet the necessary hygiene rules.
Employers want broader solutions
Erwin Rüddel, Chairman of the Health Committee of the Bundestag (CDU) Comforted with the agreement reached with the Social Democratic Party. He told FAZ: “I welcome employers in the health sector should be able to check the vaccination status of their employees.” For health protection reasons, he thinks these changes are very useful. “The goal is to improve the safety of patients, especially because they tend to belong to high-risk groups.”
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Industry and employer associations may be disappointed. They hope that companies outside of education, medical and nursing care can also obtain time-limited rights to information about Covid-19 vaccination in order to adapt their work processes to this and endanger the safety of employees, suppliers and customers as little as possible. SPD and the German Trade Union Confederation should be able to live well with reduced information rights.
The changes now agreed in the Infection Protection Act also provide for a more differentiated assessment of infections during the corona crisis. So far, the assessment of the situation and subsequent restrictions and requirements have been mainly based on the incidence, which is the number of new infections per 100,000 residents determined in the past 7 days. Now, the number of Covid-19 patients admitted to the hospital for every 100,000 residents within a week will serve as the “basic benchmark for further protection measures.”
In addition, other parameters should be considered: in addition to morbidity, available intensive care treatment capacity, and the number of people vaccinated.
