General information

If you have submitted a leave request (Urlaubsantrag) and the employer has approved it, it is a two-way agreement to which both sides are bound. You can therefore only postpone your vacation with the consent of your employer. Talk to your employer whether this is possible under the current circumstances.

Whether a face mask must be worn at work depends on the place of work. Depending on whether or not the required 1.5 m safety distance from other people can be maintained, a mask must be worn. Your employer must inform you about these regulations and also provide you with a face mask if it is mandatory to wear them at work.

Anyone traveling to work by public transport must wear a mask there from April 24^th!

If your contract of employment contains a limitation period and the employer fails to pay wages or pays insufficient wages, you are only able to subsequently claim wages within the limitation period.

Limitation periods may also exist on the basis of a collective agreement. Limitation periods within a contract of employment however do not apply to the statutory minimum wage.

IMPORTANT! Limitation periods may be very short (e.g. three months). If you have not received wages or have received insufficient wages, find out what you can do as quickly as possible, for instance from the Fair Integration advice centre.