Two more days for civil servants: Saxony is considering additional leave for vaccinated people


Two more days for civil servants
Saxony is considering additional leave for vaccinated people

When it comes to vaccination, the federal state of Saxony brings up the rear. To remedy this, Interior Minister Wöller proposes a measure from the Czech Republic. There, public sector employees are given additional vacation days for the vaccination.

According to Interior Minister Roland Wöller, Saxony is considering additional vacation days for public sector employees if they are vaccinated against the corona virus. He is taking up a plan from the neighboring country of the Czech Republic. “The idea of ​​the Czech government is not bad: every vaccinated public service employee gets two additional days of vacation,” said Wöller of the Leipziger Volkszeitung. “I think we should try it if it is possible.”

Wöller regretted that there was now a certain amount of vaccination fatigue in Saxony. The fact that only a little more than 50 percent of the Saxons have been vaccinated “is far too little,” he told the newspaper. “If the rate is not significantly higher and reaches at least 85 percent, the likelihood of restrictions increases in the fall.” It is essential to avoid this.

“It must therefore not be that the majority suffers from the minority of those who do not want to be vaccinated,” said the CDU politician. Each individual can protect himself and the health of everyone through vaccinations and his behavior. “We need a concerted action with business, unions and associations that call for vaccinations together,” said Wöller. “We need new incentives – precisely because we are voluntary and do not want to be vaccinated.”

With a rate of 48.4 percent among the fully vaccinated, Saxony continues to bring up the rear in a nationwide comparison. In all other federal states, at least 50 percent and more are completely vaccinated. With 10.6 percent, Saxony is also below the national average of 11.5 percent for 12 to 17-year-olds.

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