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At the weekend there was a lot going on around Lengerich (North Rhine-Westphalia) - at least on the Internet.
A local craftsman caused a stir nationwide with a Facebook posting in which he expressed himself critical of the vaccination.
Screenshots of the post were soon circulating on Twitter, with the note that the roofer apparently threatened his employees with dismissal if they were vaccinated.
In the meantime, this post from Mentrup Bedachung & Holzbau GmbH has disappeared, but it was still circulating on social media.
It was shared among other things by a lawyer, who also pointed out that the entrepreneur could not fire anyone.
Attorney Chan-jo Jun wrote that dismissal because of a vaccination was ineffective, but of course the threat "still works".
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The original letter read, among other things: "Anyone who is injected with unreliable vaccines, warned by many experts around the world, endangers the stability of our processes in the company!".
According to managing director Uwe Mentrup, he rejects "experiments with the performance of our company (sic) in favor of the pharmaceutical industry!"
If you don't understand that, you have to look elsewhere for work, it said.
Press conference on Monday
Then on Saturday Mentrup rowed back, also on Facebook.
In addition, he announced a press conference in Lengerich for Monday, January 18th.
He has "the best employees an employer could want".
“I did not forbid any of them to be vaccinated (...) or made it mandatory.
I will not do that in the future either, because I would not be entitled to this in any way, ”he wrote in his second statement.
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In addition, his posting from Friday was "agreed" with the employees.
He still sees the “planned compulsory vaccinations for the nursing staff” critically and misses a public discussion about it, also because he himself has many friends in the nursing sector and knows about their worries and needs.
Mentrup will then answer further questions on site on Monday.
According to the Infection Protection Act, employees are free to decide whether they want to be vaccinated or not.
The employer cannot order a vaccination, but also cannot prohibit it.
Recent reports that there is a high proportion of vaccine skeptics among nursing staff have sparked discussion.