In the event of a weather barrier, you can apply for a daily allowance from the fund under certain conditions.
If work is prevented due to freezing temperatures, those working in the building and forestry industry must have agreed on a frost limit before starting work on the site. A weather barrier is a situation in accordance with a collective agreement in the building or the forestry industry where
- Work is prevented solely and exclusively due to freezing temperatures
- A certain frost limit has been set in advance for the construction site, below which the work will not be carried out
- The weather barrier under the Unemployment Security Act only applies to the building and forestry industry. In other industries an employer may, if necessary, lay off a person for production and economic reasons.
- According to the collective agreement, the employer is not obliged to pay any wages or other remuneration.
- Earnings-related daily allowance can only be paid for a completely unpaid frost day. If the salary has been paid for example for the waiting period, then no daily allowance can be paid for that day.
- An entire day of weather obstacles can be used to accrue a waiting period or to pay unemployment benefit when the job-seeking is activated at the TE Office. Inform the TE office that it is a weather barrier or frosty day.
- Unpaid frosty days must be specified either in a statement from the TE office or in a separate certificate from the employer.
In this case, you can apply for the daily allowance from the fund, if the employer has not paid wages or other remuneration for the days in question. However, always fill in the application for entire calendar weeks from Monday to Sunday.
In the forest machinery sector or in the sheet metal and industrial insulation sector an employee may be laid off due to a weather barrier. You can also apply for a daily allowance for these days if you are laid off.
If you are applying for daily allowance for the first time in the event of a weather barrier or your employment condition has been met again, the five-day waiting period will be set normally.
In case of doubt, you should contact either your own trade union or the customer service of the A-fund.
You can find information about the weather barrier days here
