The corona quarantine after Niklas Süle’s positive test could not only have sporting, but also financial consequences for unvaccinated Bayern players like Joshua Kimmich.
Unvaccinated workers have not been entitled to their salary since November 1 if they have to be in quarantine and are absent. This was recorded in §56 of the Federal Infection Protection Act.
The employer, in this case FC Bayern, can decide whether the employees, in this case the Bayern players, who have to quarantine for the time being due to the status of unvaccinated as contact persons of the first category with a person who has tested positive their failure to be paid.
To date, it is only publicly known that Kimmich has not yet been vaccinated against the corona virus. But because Serge Gnabry, Jamal Musiala and Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting also had to go into quarantine and leave the German and Cameroonian national teams, this suggests that these Bayern professionals have not yet been vaccinated against the virus.
According to the current Bavarian Corona Protection Ordinance, there is a 14-day quarantine obligation for close contact persons. This ends if no corona-typical symptoms occur during the isolation and a negative test result is available after these 14 days. However, there is no quarantine obligation for “close contact persons who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (from day 15 after the final vaccination)”, as can be seen in the current version of the Bavarian Corona Protection Ordinance.
According to Sport1 The continued payment of wages is discussed in Bavaria, but a decision on the procedure has not yet been made. A demand of the image According to the report, the record champions left unanswered on this topic. With an estimated annual salary of 17.5 million euros, Kimmich would lose around 327,000 euros in the event of a seven-day quarantine, which the record champions should withhold.
Should Musiala, Gnabry and Choupo-Moting also be unvaccinated and the FCB refuse to continue paying wages, the club would be loud on a weekly basis Sport1 save around 740,000 euros.
