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Berlin (dpa) - Federal Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (SPD) does not want to compensate companies for additional costs due to the planned corona test offer obligation.
“This is now a national effort and everyone has to participate,” he said on Tuesday morning on “Deutschlandfunk” and emphasized: “Companies that have a business that can continue their production are in a much better position than the companies who now really have to struggle every day with the fact that, for example, the restaurant does not open, that the hotel cannot be operated properly. "
According to Scholz, voluntary test offers for companies are not enough.
As can be seen from a draft of the regulation that is available to the German Press Agency, companies should make tests available once a week.
However, you do not have to document that your employees also use the offers.
Anyone who has a lot of customer contact or lives in shared accommodation should be entitled to two tests.
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“In this respect, this is about efforts that everyone must make.
We have launched very extensive economic aid, ”said the Vice Chancellor.
“Last year it was 80 billion.
If you add the tax breaks, almost 190 billion, all together, ”added the SPD candidate for chancellor.
"That's why I believe that this mandatory test is a reasonable and necessary measure"
According to information from the German Press Agency, a package solution for mandatory corona test offers is being sought in the federal government.
A corresponding change to the occupational safety and health ordinance is to come together with the planned amendment to the Infection Protection Act for a nationwide Corona emergency brake.
This also extends the obligation for companies to allow their employees to work from home wherever possible.
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