The Viennese laboratory Lifebrain reported 306 of the remaining employees for layoff. They will lose their jobs and be released, the company said Friday. A social plan will be available from 2022. The reason is the abolition of the obligation to test when visiting hospitals and rest homes on February 28 and the end of the federal corona test strategy on June 30.
The lab will be returned to “normal operation” in the coming weeks due to the declining number of tests. At the moment, an average of about 25,000 PCR tests are performed per day and about 450,000 at peak times. With the end of the test programs, there will probably only be a demand for them in exceptional situations. According to the company in the 14th arrondissement, the number of employees must be adjusted accordingly.
“Everything is gurgling!” ends at the end of June
After about three years of the Covid pandemic, the federal government will finally repeal all pandemic laws in the coming months. The national test strategy and with it the Viennese program “Everything gurgles!” will be discontinued on June 30. From then on, Corona is officially no longer a notifiable infectious disease and Lifebrain will have to adapt to the new circumstances.
The laboratory will be significantly reduced in size: all but one of the five pavilions currently in use on the Baumgartnerhöhe will be completely dismantled and returned to its owner, the Vienna Health Association. “It was clear to us from the start that thankfully the pandemic would come to an end,” said Lifebrain CEO Michael Havel.
Source: Krone
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