The goal of the highest possible vaccination rate is out of the question for the federal government, according to the joint statement by Ministers Kocher and Mückstein to the APA. “In principle, the federal government is ready to talk about all measures that minimize the health risk in connection with Covid-19 and increase the vaccination rate must be discussed in close coordination with the social partners. “
Haimbuchner: “unacceptable undermining of our freedoms”
Sharp criticism of a possible 3G obligation at the workplace comes from the FPÖ: This is the next “unacceptable undermining of our freedom rights”, said the Upper Austrian governor and deputy FPÖ chairman Manfred Haimbuchner (FPÖ) in a broadcast. “With this further coercive measure, an unacceptable pressure is exerted on unvaccinated people, which further massively undermines our constitutionally guaranteed freedoms. This project must therefore be strictly rejected. Instead, serious education and voluntariness must be relied on”.
Criticism also comes from the Neos, who see a shift in government responsibility: “The government sees no way out of its own pandemic ‘management’. That is why it is now shifting its responsibility not only to the federal states, but also to the social partners, for example on the question of 3G in companies, “said Neos health spokesman Gerald Loacker in a broadcast. “But burying our heads in the sand and shrugging our shoulders in front of the low vaccination rate will not lead us out of the corona crisis,” he urges the federal government to do more. “And you finally have to say what the goal is: At what vaccination rate do the measures end? And how do we achieve this vaccination rate?”
Labor law expert lawyer Katharina Körber-Risak sees the government as having the ball for 3G rules in the workplace. “That is certainly something that needs to be regulated by ordinance and law and it is also, I believe, not the task of the social partners to make such very difficult constitutional considerations here. I believe that you have a legislator for that, to put him in such a difficult situation says where to go, “she said in the” ZiB2 “of ORF television on Wednesday evening. At the moment the legal situation is completely unclear if an employer unilaterally enacts such rules and someone does not want that.
