FILE PHOTO: Employees are seen outside the main Toennies meat factory that had to be shut down because of the coronavirus disease outbreak among its employees, in Rheda-Wiedenbrueck, Germany June 20, 2020. REUTERS/Leon Kuegeler/File Photo
The outbreak at meatpacker Toennies’ slaughterhouse in the western town of Guetersloh in June infected 1,500 workers, resulting in 600,000 people in the surrounding areas having to go into lockdown for two weeks. On Friday, the privately owned company, which has 16,500 employees and some 7 billion euros in annual revenues, requested financial support from the government to pay workers who have been quarantined without falling sick, the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper reported.
Germany’s long-standing law on preventing infectious diseases allows for firms to receive support if their workers are quarantined.
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If they cute I can help pack some of that meat zaddy 😗