In may, the danes set themselves on a holiday abroad can trigger the 14 days at home and a view to a somewhat smaller paycheck at the end of the month. A number of municipalities report that they have told all the staff that this summer travel abroad – in addition to Germany, Iceland or Norway – they are not allowed to meet on work in 14 days, after they have come home.
It writes Jyllands-Posten.
“It is not illegal to travel to Italy for her summer vacation, but according to the authorities, he should not do it. And the fact we us to,” says Aase Henriksen, who is HR manager in Sønderborg Municipality.
She imagines that if an employee travels abroad and must be in quarantine, trying to find a solution: he Can work from home or keep an extra holiday?
“But if you can’t find a solution, it becomes 14 days at home without pay,” says Aase Henriksen of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
the Same line has been given in f.ex. Tønder, Aalborg, and Odense Municipality, who has sent guidance on personal travel for all employees, where it is stated that “the employee must be returned in 14 days, regardless of whether the person has symptoms of covid-19 or not. The employee loses the right to pay in the 14 days where the employee has scheduled working days”.
Employers have right on their side, explains Natalie Videbæk, Rahmann, associate professor in the Department of law at Aarhus University. It is not fyringsgrund that you are on holiday f.ex. in Southern europe, but employers have the right to send a home during quarantine. The essential is, according to Natalie Videbæk, Munkholm, that travel puts himself in a situation where there is risk of exposing others to risk by meeting at work.
“Your employer can not prohibit you to travel, but they can say to you, that they will not pay the bill that you take off. If you are travelling contrary to the authorities ‘ recommendations, takes to itself a decision to put themselves in a situation where you can’t be physically at work when you come home. It differs from other situations where the employee cannot get to work f.example because of illness,” she says to Jyllands-Posten.
Associate professor in labour law at the University of Southern denmark Christian Hojer Schjøler also assesses that employers can require that employees, after a journey stay at home in 14 days without pay.
“It is essential that advice to travelers have been known a long time, and that the employees still with eyes open, place themselves in a situation where he can not supply his labor. It is the employee’s risk – not the employer,” says lektoren.
