Ministry of Labor: How to compensate for additional leave of absence due to Covid

Clarifications were given by the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, regarding the leave of employees due to Covid 19.

As it is pointed out, in practice the provision of the Ministry of Labor harmonizes the current leave regime with the new protocol of EODY for a five-day absence from work, establishes a new leave for working parents that is not provided until today and provides the following:

For working parents of sick children

1) The five-day absence (up to 5 working days) is provided with a positive test certificate (rapid or pcr) / so no additional medical certificate is required.
2) The first three days of leave are covered by the employer (as is the case when the employee himself falls ill), the 4th day is covered by the state / EFKA and the 5th day by any legal leave of the employee.
3) The regulation stipulates that in principle teleworking is provided / preferred when it is possible to provide it by agreement with the employer, this is equivalent to normal work and the provisions of the sick leave are not activated.
4) The form of the special leave for parents is tripartite (ie employer, state, employee), as it is an exceptional right of leave due to Covid-19 which is not provided in the permanent labor legislation but has a proportional application with the leave regime of employees who are sick themselves as to the amount of the compensation provided for.
5) In addition to the above leave, the working parent has the right to take advantage of a number of existing and new leave recently established by the Ministry of Labor (eg parental leave, caregiver leave, leave of absence for work due to force majeure).

For sick employees

1) The five-day absence (up to 5 working days) is provided with a positive test certificate (rapid or pcr) / so no additional medical certificate is required.
2) The permanent provisions of sick leave for private sector workers adapted to the five days provided for in the EODY protocol apply: the first 3 days of leave are covered by the employer at the level provided by the permanent labor legislation for sick leave (50%), while for On the 4th and 5th day the general provisions of sickness compensation (100%) apply.
3) The regulation stipulates that in principle teleworking is provided / preferred when it is possible to provide it by agreement with the employer, this is equivalent to normal work and the provisions of the sick leave are not activated.
4) For leave beyond 5 days, the permanent insurance legislation is applied with a doctor’s certificate presented to the insurance company and 100% compensation.

“The hypocrisy and falsehood on the part of SYRIZA has reached its ceiling. They pretend to ignore the legislation that they themselves applied when they were in government, regarding the compensations of the employees. At the same time, they pretend that they do not see the government introducing new additional permits for the employees, who themselves or their children get sick from Covid-19 and in fact with very fast procedures. “We are dealing with the substance, we are leaving them to hypocrisy!”, Concludes the announcement of the Ministry of Labor.

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