As major automobile manufacturers in Germany gear up to boost production, the country’s metalworkers’ union has published a practical and detailed 30-page guide on how to ensure protection at production sites. The guide is intended to help employee representatives and the management of many SMEs, and is presented by the union as supplementary to the catalogue of ten measures and recommendations published last week by the ministry of employment and social affairs (see article n° 11848) and an adaptation to the specific nature of the industry. Three types of measures - technical, organisational and personal - are set out.
Everything possible should be done to avoid a botched end to lockdown. With a hopeful but fragile backdrop as regards the coronavirus pandemic, Germany has cautiously opted for a gradual easing of the lockdown from 4 May. Already car manufacturers have begun to relaunch their production lines. However, many experts agree with the German chancellor that the pandemic is still in its infancy and that “at no time should we believe we are safe”, with country “far from being out of the woods”. If loc
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