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The federal government plans to crack down on crown infections at several slaughterhouses. Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) announced in the Bundestag that the Crown cabinet would adopt strict regulations next Monday.
Merkel spoke of “terrifying news” from the meat industry, referring to the often precarious working and living conditions of employees. Heil said, “We are going to clarify these conditions.”
Crown infections were found in large numbers of employees at various slaughterhouses, for example at Coesfeld in Westphalia and Bad Bramstedt in Schleswig-Holstein. Working conditions in the industry have become a focus of attention, as has the often overcrowded collective accommodation of the numerous foreign agency workers.
Criticism of employment contracts.
“As a society, we cannot continue to observe how people from Central and Eastern Europe are exploited in this society,” said Heil. Outsourcing in the meat industry is the “root of the problem”. Therefore, the minister campaigned to think fundamentally about the widespread construction of employment contracts. Heil announced a meeting with his Romanian colleague for next week. Germany had to ensure that workers from abroad were also protected.
Additionally, Heil campaigned for mandatory control fees nationwide. Many federal states had saved too much on the responsible authorities to verify compliance with existing occupational safety regulations.
In a current hour in the Bundestag, opposing positions collided. Jutta Krellmann on the left called for, among other things, a ban on employment contracts, clear rules for accommodation and a uniform minimum wage across the industry. Green MP Friedrich Ostendorff campaigned for the closure of companies as long as minimum authorizations and individual accommodation of workers are not guaranteed.
AfD Group spokesperson for agricultural policy, Stephan Protschka, warned, however, that additional bans and conditions could cause slaughterhouses to move abroad. FDP MP Carlo Cronenberg also relies on tighter controls rather than new laws: “We have no legislative problem, we have a law enforcement problem.”
