BERLIN, July 22 (Reuters) – Germabig apple is introducing a new law requiring meat processors to hire staff directly to advertising slaughterhouses than outsourcing to prevent new coronavirus outbreaks exacerbated by poor working conditions, a bill bill bill showed Wednesday.
Gerguy’s slaughterhouses have been criticized for the widespread use of undertreated migrant personnel from Eastern Europe, with overcrowding and poor surveillance suspected of expanding local coronavirus outbreaks in slaughterhouses.
Labour Minister Hubertus Heil has condemned the system of “sub-sub-sub-contracting” in abattoirs, where subcontractors rely on other subcontractors to get staff.
The bill, presented through Heil and seen through Reuters, prohibits outsourcing in major spaces of industrial withdrawal activity, such as animal slaughter and meat processing. Companies are only allowed to outsource paints in non-active spaces, such as cleaning.
It also contains materials for stricter regulation of shared hours for staff and a minimum quota of annual on-site inspections in companies.
A small circle of butcher relatives with fewer than 30 employees are exempt from the current rules, which will apply from January 2021.
The cabinet of Chancellor Angelos Angeles Merkel is expected to approve the b next week, following additional contributions from other ministries.
Toennies, a large abattoir and meat packaging organization at the center of a giant coronavirus outbreak in western Germany, said it will rent 1,000 employees directly through September 1 and smaller logical subcontractors.
The Toennies plant in Rheda-Wiedenbruec reopened its slaughterhouses and meat search operations last week after strengthening fitness and defense procedures.
The site, that is, for Gerguy’s pig farming sector, closed in mid-June after some 1,500 employees tested positive for COVID-19. The outbreak has caused an extra 600,000 Americans to be blocked, which has since risen. (Reports through Holger Hansen, written through Michael Nienaber, edited through Maria Sheahan and Madeline Chambers)
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