Employers in Germany should in future have to explicitly allow corona vaccinations during working hours.
"The employer must enable employees to be vaccinated against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus during working hours," says the Federal Ministry of Labor's draft for a new occupational health and safety ordinance that is available to the German Press Agency.
In addition, employers should provide company doctors and their inter-company services who carry out vaccinations in the company with organizational and personal support.
The willingness to vaccinate should be promoted by addressing the employees and by an in-house information campaign.
In the future, employers should also be able to take into account the vaccination or convalescence status of employees in their anti-corona hygiene concepts, provided they are aware of this.
The correspondingly updated occupational safety and health ordinance is currently being coordinated within the government and is to be passed in the federal cabinet next Wednesday.