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Anyone who travels to the Balkans is at risk of losing their jobs – politics

Last week, travelers carried the corona virus to Austria from the Western Balkans. The result is travel warnings.

Due to the worrying development of Corona, the turquoise-green government imposed the highest travel warning level on all six Balkan countries – Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania and North Macedonia – on Wednesday. Health Minister Rudi Anschober (Greens) spoke of a “problematic trend” in the Balkans that required effective countermeasures.

Those who vacation in the Balkans despite the warning could – depending on legal opinion – risk their job. Because employees are subject to a duty of loyalty to the employer, says Elias Felten, board member of the Institute for Labor and Social Law at the University of Linz on the “courier”. In plain language: “You have to refrain from anything that affects essential interests of the employer.”

Stays in countries with a travel warning, as it now applies to the Balkans, could be tricky. “If this leads to a service being prevented, there may be consequences under employment law or even dismissal,” Felten told the “courier”. If the travel warning was only issued during the stay, one could not blame the employee. Any disputes would have to be fought in court.

Highest travel warning level for Western Balkans.
Highest travel warning level for Western Balkans.Screenshot BMEIA

That’s what the Chamber of Labor says

The Vienna Chamber of Labor sees it differently. As director Christoph Klein said in a mailing: “Even if the employee has to be quarantined due to a suspected corona or a corona disease, there is nothing to fear. In this case, the continued payment of wages according to the Epidemic Act is assumed by the state.”

The usual rules for the situation would have to be observed. “So I am not allowed to drink shoulder to shoulder in Mallorca with a common straw from the Sangria bucket, just as I am of course not allowed to drive a car without alcohol,” said Klein. And even if the prescribed rules are not followed, the employer would have to prove it.

In addition, employees do not have to tell the company where they are going on vacation. Klein: “Employees are only obliged to inform them after the trip if they have been in an area for which a travel warning applies.”

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