Please press and hold the button until it turns completely green If you believe this is an error, please contact our support team 147.45.197.102 : 716cfbac-b9a8-4741-b2a5-01266cc6 BERLIN (AP) — New lockdown measures are being imposed for one week in a German region that has seen a large increase in coronavirus infections linked to a slaughterhouse More than 1,500 people have tested positive for coronavirus at the Toennies slaughterhouse in Rheda-Wiedenbrueck and thousands more have been put under a quarantine to try to halt the outbreak The governor of North Rhine-Westphalia state said people in Guetersloh and parts of a neighboring county will now face the same kind of restrictions that existed across Germany during the early stages of the pandemic in March and April These include limiting the number of people who can meet in public to those from a single household or two people from separate households fitness studios and bars will also be closed although restaurants can continue to cater to people from the same household the western county had only closed schools and child care centers Laschet said the measures will be lifted on June 30 if the situation has improved but declined to provide specific parameters for how success will be measured Germany had been widely praised for its handling of the pandemic tracing and hospital preparation measures tamped down the outbreak and kept Germany's death toll five times smaller than Britain's Germany has seen 8,899 confirmed virus deaths Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information A Toennies meat packing plant in Rheda-Wiedenbrueck Shareholders Clemens, Robert and Maximilian Toennies said in a statement Wednesday that they will continue to lead the business together as a family into the future Proceedings to dismantle their holdings are at an end In part, this certainly reflects Europe’s East-West divide, particularly after the 2004 Eastern Enlargement(s) Huge gaps of material inequality between the new Eastern periphery and the old core expanded the so-called ‘reserve army of labour’ for many industries: workers with weaker bargaining power because of the precarious economic conditions in their countries of origin and the challenges typically faced by migrant workers By 2013, approximately 70 per cent of the workforce in the four largest meat companies were posted workers which in some cases enabled companies to save up to 80 per cent in labour costs First, a minimum wage through a sectoral collective agreement and contractor’s liability through amendment of the German Posting law have been introduced in 2014 The urgency to improve the working and living conditions of meat processing workers goes without saying The current momentum should be seized to substantively address the root causes sustaining the injustice that slaughterhouse workers have been enduring Vladimir Bogoeski is a doctoral student at the Hertie School of Governance and Humboldt University Berlin and a research fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Download the IPS-Journal as an app for Android and iOS The Toennies meat packing plant in Rheda-Wiedenbrueck 2020 at 3:14 PM EDTBookmarkSaveLock This article is for subscribers only.Cold and stale air conditions allowed coronavirus particles to travel more than 8 meters (26 feet) at a German slaughterhouse giving an insight into how meat plants turned into hotspots for infections across the world