Because he was fired without notice because he had presented a fake vaccination card, a kitchen consultant presented himself to the Düsseldorf labor court. However, this decided that the employee was entitled to be dismissed without notice. So he is not an isolated case. Celebrities also had to live with the consequences because they presented fake vaccination certificates, like Werder Bremen’s soccer coach Markus Anfang.
The labor judges in Düsseldorf have now decided that employees who present a forged vaccination card can generally be dismissed without notice for “good cause”. The court justified this with a violation of the relationship of trust. The behavior shows a “high degree of criminal energy, which disrupts the relationship of trust with the employer in the long term,” according to the court’s verdict. A warning is therefore not necessary.
After the specific case of the kitchen consultant, the vaccination cards of his colleagues were also checked. Amazingly, they had identical vaccine batches on their passports. The background to the dispute was the entry into force of the 3G rule in the workplace on November 24, 2021, which states that employees must be vaccinated or recovered or have a negative test.
The day before the rule was enforced, the plaintiff had indicated that he did not wish to be vaccinated. Just one day later, he presented the employer with a copy of his vaccination certificate, which showed a double vaccination against the corona virus. The attentive employer confronted the employee with the similarity of the vaccination batches in his ID card to those of a colleague, after which the latter admitted the falsification. The immediate result was termination of his employment without notice.
