Emergency plans: Employers ask government for more lenient overtime and quarantine arrangements as omikron spirals out of control | Coronavirus what you need to know

If the need arises, employers first and foremost want to be able to deploy their own staff more flexibly to deal with illnesses and quarantines: they have already been trained. To this end, they are asking the government to raise the legal ceiling for voluntary overtime in a very short period of time and for a limited period of time, in a tax-efficient manner.