The vaccination against the corona virus continues. In factories too, workers are now being poked. But by no means in all of them.
Only a quarter of the companies that have a company doctor offer their employees vaccinations against the coronavirus. Twelve percent planned to do so.
This was the result of a representative survey of companies by the Nuremberg Institute for Employment Research, the results of which were published on Tuesday. The survey took place between June 7th and 18th – immediately after the vaccination ordinance made this possible.
“It is remarkable that so many companies take part in the vaccination campaign in the first two weeks,” said IAB Director Bernd Fitzenberger. The research institute of the Federal Employment Agency has been surveying 1,500 to 2,000 private-sector companies on the consequences of the corona pandemic since August 2020.
38 percent of the companies have no plans to offer their employees a vaccination, according to the survey. 22 percent of the companies even considered vaccinations by company doctors to be unnecessary because their employees had already received a vaccination offer. This is especially true for employers in the social and health sector, where it was the turn of the employees to prioritize vaccination.
Company doctor vaccinations are mainly given in larger companies with more than 250 employees. In this group, 56 percent, more than half offer their employees a vaccination offer. Another 19 percent said they were planning a corresponding offer.
In contrast, only 28 percent of the smallest companies with up to 9 employees and 22 percent of the companies with 10 to 49 employees offer vaccinations against Corona. These companies often have no permanent company doctors and can only fall back on external company medical services.
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