On 27 May, Deutsche Post it would be testing more than 10,000 employees as a preventative measure, and on a voluntary basis, in order to better understand and assess the epidemiological situation as regards the staff working in its German sorting centers. Management is especially trying to identify asymptomatic carriers. The entire testing operation must be approved by the works councils for the sites concerned. Trade unions and employees are largely in favor of this measure.
Avoiding unpleasant surprises in a sensitive sector. Tobias Meyer, head of the Deutsche Post/DHL Group ‘Mail and Parcels’ business announced that a Covid-19 screening operation involving more than 10,000 tests would be launched in some of the group’s 119 German sorting centers (36 for parcels and 83 for letters). In terms of the scale of the operation, the tests will be conducted within the business division that employs about 113,500 of Deutsche Post’s 150,000 employees in Germany (546,000 wor
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