Sick leave

SicknessSick notificationsnotes (Arbeitsunfähigkeitsbescheinigungen) are now senttransmitted electronically from the doctordoctor’s office to your health insurance provider. Your employer can generally retrieve the relevant information from the health insurance company.provider. Nevertheless, we ask you toplease send us youran sickness notificationsemail with the start date and expected end date byof email,your becausesick leave, as we do not automatically receive this information from your health insurance provider. We need an exact period in order to request the information automatically from the health insurance. To receive a reliable confirmation we need to insert the exact time frame that matches the information given by theyour health insurance providerprovider. inPlease also let us know if the system.expected end date of your sick leave changes.

Please notenote: thatDuring weyour sick leave, you generally cannot sendprocess invoicesassignments forthrough theyour serviceemployment periodrelationship inwith which you were on sick leave.Smart.

Sick pay at Smart eG

If you are employed by  Smart eG and fallbecome ill:

• you will generally continue to receive your salaryemployment withoutincome interruption.for up to six weeks.
• forAt theSmart, firstthis 6employment weeks,income your salary will beis paid from your budget.budget for the first six weeks.
• From the seventh week of illness, youremployees with statutory health insurance providercan generally receive sickness benefits (Krankenkasse)Krankengeld) willfrom paytheir sickhealth payinsurance (approx.provider. Sickness benefits generally amount to 70% of your gross salary)employment income, but no more than 90% of net employment income.

Sick pay at Smart Bildungswerk

TheIf employeesyou ofare employed by Smart Bildungswerk pay the so-called Umlage 1 (between one and threebecome percentill, depending on the health insurance company) to the health insurance companies through their employer's contribution andyou are thereforegenerally entitled to continued payment of wagesyour employment income by your employer for up to six weeks.

Smart Bildungswerk participates in the formU1 statutory reimbursement scheme. Under certain conditions, this allows Smart, as the employer, to have part of sick pay from the first weekcosts of incapacitycontinued for work in the eventpayment of illness.employment Theincome salary is therefore paidreimbursed by the health insurance providerprovider.

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At Smart, this reimbursement is credited to the first week, in the casebudget of the eGemployed onlymember. It can therefore help offset financial losses resulting from illness-related absence and the seventhassignments weekthat ofcannot illness.be Ifcarried you,out as ana employeeresult.

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If theyou Bildungswerk,are employed by Smart Bildungswerk and are unable to work due to illness and are therefore unable tocannot carry out assignments, youplease should sendinform us aby scanemail of theyour medicalincapacity certificate (for thework employer)and byits e-mail.expected duration.

Child sickness allowance

If your child is ill, please send usill and theyou are therefore unable to work, you can apply for child sickness benefit (Kinderkrankengeld) from your health insurance provider theif sickyou note. For this period,meet the salarystatutory willrequirements. beChild takensickness overbenefit is paid by theyour health insurance provider and thengenerally paidreplaces directlythe employment income you lose as a result. It generally amounts to 90% of your lost net employment income. In 2026, parents are generally entitled to up to 15 working days per child covered by statutory health insurance and per parent, or up to 30 working days for single parents.

Please inform us as your employer without delay if you (seeare unable to work because you need to care for your sick child. Submit the required certificate for child sickness benefit to your health insurance provider.

As your employment contract §excludes 6:claims (3) Claims in accordance with § 616 BGB forto continued payment of remuneration inunder Section 616 of the eventGerman Civil Code (BGB) (see Section 6 (3) of temporaryyour incapacityemployment contract), you generally do not receive remuneration from Smart for this period. Instead, if the relevant requirements are excluded).met, you may receive child sickness benefit from your health insurance provider.