Krankschreibung selber einreichen oder macht das der Arbeitgeber?

In the first four weeks of a new employment relationship, you do not yet receive any wage repayment by the employer in case of illness. Say, your employer’s salary is simply shortened by these days.

In these first four weeks, however, you are entitled to sickness benefit via your health insurance. That’s exactly what you need to apply for yourself! So call your health insurance for what you need to fill out and do.

Otherwise, in the event of a disease, the employee has no more paper to the employer since 01.01.2023. Since then, eAU has been mandatory for employers. Means that the employer must electronically retrieve the AU from the doctor at the sickness fund.

For this, you have to inform your employer from when to when your doctor wrote you sick, so the exact data. If they are wrong, the retrieval unfortunately often ensures error messages…

You also have to inform your employer on the path prescribed by him in case of illness. So before you go to the doctor! That’s super important, because you don’t do that, can be a reason for a dismissal and for a repetition…