Employees with customer contact: Federal and state governments advise on mandatory testing

The federal and state governments are currently discussing uniform regulations for compulsory testing for employees in companies that are open to the public. According to a draft resolution, there should be a uniform procedure.

The federal and state governments are apparently striving for a uniform test requirement for employees with direct customer contact. The health ministers want to vote on a draft resolution at their conference on Monday afternoon. It says: “The federal states agree that the 3G verification requirement, which is now regulated in many federal states, is a prerequisite for access to companies, facilities or other offers with direct customer contact not only for customers, visitors or other external persons, but should also apply to employees. “

The paper is available to the dpa news agency. According to this, there is still no uniform line on voting behavior among the countries. Changes are therefore still possible.

“Basically uniform procedure”

The draft also says that there should be a “fundamentally uniform procedure” throughout Germany. In this way, a discrepancy in the test regulations for employees in professional activities with direct customer contact should be avoided as far as possible. To this end, all countries that have not yet issued any regulations should implement them in their Corona regulations as soon as possible.

According to this, all people who are not vaccinated or have no evidence of recovery would have to undergo a test when they go to work. The obligation to test could also be linked to other parameters such as incidences, according to the paper. And: “The frequency of test reports and the possibility of equivalent alternative measures can be decided individually for each area.”