Corona short-time work is again be­ing ex­ten­ded from 01.07.2021 to 30.06.2022 ("short-time work phase 5"). The new so­cial part­ner agree­ment (here­after "SPA") is now also avail­able. What is new is that – de­pend­ing on how com­pan­ies are af­fected by the Corona pan­dem­ic – a dis­tinc­tion is made between two short-time work mod­els. The most im­port­ant in­form­a­tion can be found here: Mod­el 1: For com­pan­ies that have been es­pe­cially af­fected For com­pan­ies that ex­per­i­ence a de­cline in rev­en­ue of more than 50% com­pared to Q3 2019 or are af­fected by a gov­ern­ment-man­dated ban on cus­tom­er-entry, short-time work phase 5 will con­tin­ue on es­sen­tially the same terms as phase 4: Em­ploy­ers will con­tin­ue to re­ceive the full short-time work al­low­ance. For the time be­ing, how­ever, un­til the ap­plic­a­tion tool in the elec­tron­ic ac­count with the La­bour Mar­ket Ser­vice (eAMS) is ad­ap­ted (which will then en­able cor­res­pond­ing in­form­a­tion from com­pan­ies on the de­cline in rev­en­ue in the La­bour Mar­ket Ser­vice sys­tem), the al­low­ance will be paid out at a 15% re­duc­tion per month  – as in mod­el 2. The out­stand­ing 15% of the al­low­ance must be ap­plied for sep­ar­ately as part of an amend­ment re­quest.Work­ing time can be re­duced to 30-80 % of the pre­vi­ous work­ing time on av­er­age dur­ing the peri­od of short-time work.A fur­ther re­duc­tion of work­ing time for spe­cial eco­nom­ic reas­ons is still pos­sible if ap­proved by the so­cial part­ners (An­nex 2 of the SPA). This short-time work mod­el is val­id un­til the end of Decem­ber 2021. Mod­el 2: For all oth­er com­pan­ies For all oth­er com­pan­ies, a short-time work mod­el with re­duced short-time work al­low­ance and high­er min­im­um work­ing time than be­fore ap­plies: Em­ploy­ers re­ceive a short-time work al­low­ance re­duced by 15% com­pared to short-time work phase 4.Work­ing time can be re­duced to 50%-80% of the pre­vi­ous work­ing time on av­er­age dur­ing the peri­od of short-time work.A fur­ther re­duc­tion of work­ing time for spe­cial eco­nom­ic reas­ons is still pos­sible if ap­proved by the so­cial part­ners (En­clos­ure 2 of the SPA). This short-time work mod­el is val­id un­til the end of June 2022.The fol­low­ing ap­plies to both short-time work mod­els: Dur­a­tion of short-time work A max­im­um of 6 months of short-time work can be ap­plied for. Ap­plic­a­tion and con­sulta­tion It is ex­pec­ted that ap­plic­a­tions for short-time work phase 5 can be sub­mit­ted to the La­bour Mar­ket Ser­vice from 19.07.2021. Short-time work with a start date from 01.07.2021 could then be ap­plied for ret­ro­act­ively un­til 18.08.2021. In all oth­er cases, the ap­plic­a­tion must be sub­mit­ted be­fore the start of the short-time work peri­od. Com­pan­ies newly en­ter­ing short-time work that did not use short-time work between 01.04.2021 and 30.06.2021 must also com­plete a con­sulta­tion pro­ced­ure with the La­bour Mar­ket Ser­vice and the so­cial part­ners, usu­ally last­ing 3 weeks, be­fore sub­mit­ting an ap­plic­a­tion. Net re­place­ment rates re­main the same Re­gard­less of the mod­el of short-time work, em­ploy­ees will con­tin­ue to re­ceive 80-90% of the net pay they re­ceived be­fore short-time work. Com­puls­ory use of va­ca­tion For every 2 months or part there­of of short-time work, em­ploy­ees must now con­sume at least 1 week of va­ca­tion, provided the em­ploy­ee has suf­fi­cient va­ca­tion cred­it. If the em­ploy­ee fails to con­sume va­ca­tion, even though he or she is en­titled to do so, the com­pany may not charge lost work­ing time to this ex­tent for the short-time work al­low­ance. Short-time work and col­lect­ive re­dund­an­cies Em­ploy­ees who are re­gistered for col­lect­ive re­dund­an­cies with the La­bour Mar­ket Ser­vice pur­su­ant to Sec­tion 45a AM­FG can now also be ex­emp­ted from short-time work. This re­quires the so­cial part­ners’ con­sent (An­nex 3 of the SPV). With re­gard to these staff re­duc­tions, there is no ob­lig­a­tion to re­plen­ish the work­force dur­ing short-time work.