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Hamburg (dpa) - The northern German metal and electrical industry clearly rejects compulsory corona testing by companies.
“The vast majority of employers have long been offering their employees corona tests or are planning to do so as soon as enough tests are available.
So there is no legal compulsion to do so, ”said the general manager of the employers' associations Nordmetall and AGV Nord, Nico Fickinger, on Thursday.
He referred to his own survey from March 29 to April 6 of more than 200 companies.
According to this, 69 percent of Hamburg's companies are already offering their employees free self-tests.
92 percent of the companies wanted to offer their employees free corona tests as soon as they were readily available.
Fickinger reminded that every citizen was already entitled to a free state test per week.
"If politicians want to force companies to set up expensive parallel structures and also want to make tests mandatory, they should first ensure that enough tests are available," demanded Fickinger.
In addition, the companies would have to be relieved of administrative and financial costs.
The 208 companies from five northern German states participating in the survey - including Still, Philips, Montblanc, Nexperia Gemany and Wärtsilä SAM Electronics - have already bought, ordered or commissioned more than a million corona tests for their 122,000 employees.
Nordmetall put the total costs including lost work at 16 million euros, which were incurred almost every month with two tests per employee and week.
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The chairman of the board of the AGV Nord association, Julian Bonato, said that, in addition to the assumption of costs by the state, simple, unbureaucratic and clear rules for testing were necessary.
“Instead, we experience inadequate planning and alarmist guidelines instead of forward-looking thinking.
It's not up to the economy if it doesn't work, ”Bonato emphasized.
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