The quickest way to obtain an electronic certificate of incapacity for work (eAU)

A certificate of incapacity for work is a certificate issued by a doctor. This certificate confirms that the patient is unfit for work and therefore unable to work.

How does the eAU work?

The electronic certificate of incapacity for work is issued to employees by their treating physician . issued by a doctor. The eAU replaces the previous papercertificate and is transmitted online to the responsible health insurance company or the GKV server – the patients patients must take care of the transmission to the no longer have to worry about health insurance. The important thing here is, that the certificates of incapacity for workemployers are not proactively communicated. WithEmployees must therefore still report sick to their employerthe employer so that they can take sick leave at the at the right time (usually after 24 hours at the earliest) hours at the earliest) to send an eAU request to the GKV server. can.

The GKV-Spitzenverband provides the web-based tool “sv.net” for retrieving electronic certificates of incapacity for work from the GKV server. The call can also be made via a payroll accounting program. A convenient alternative is to retrieve the eAU directly from the digital Time & Attendance system, as this usually records employees’ sick notes promptly anyway. In particular, companies that have commissioned a tax consultant to prepare their payroll accounting can keep the eAU process lean by using a digital query from the time recording software and digitally transmit the retrieved incapacity for work at the end of the payroll period together with other gross wage data to their tax consultant. In addition, the personnel master data relevant for the eAU retrieval is already available in the time recording software and does not have to be entered manually for each eAU query.