Covid Trouble Ahead

 So, if you sit down and view German nightly news and the Covid chatter....there is this interesting development approaching in March.  

There is expected to be a mandate on the Covid vaccination process....giving a German no choice (at least the politicians believe this)....to be vaxed-up.

In this process....a consequence has popped up and people are now starting to discuss this matter.  

Detlef Scheele ('boss' of the German Federal Employment Agency....the Job-Center folks)....has said that under the current chatter....an employer looking for a new employee and having one sent to them from the Job-Center....can cancel-out or refuse to accept a unvax'ed applicant.

So you sit and think over the implications.

You run a cafe and need two new waitresses.  The Job-Center says no problem and refers two over....which you discover in the interview process....neither are vaxed-up.  You refuse them.  So the Job-Center sends another two....neither of them are vaxed-up and you refuse them.  The Job-Center sends another two....neither of them are vaxed-up, and you refuse them.  You might eventually get two who are vaxed-up but discover that both have been fired at odd times for failing to show up for shifts.  In this case, you have to accept sub-standard employees....because of this whole vax situation and mandate.

You run a heating repair shop, and have an urgent situation to fill.  You've got three people referred over by the Job-Center and will interview them.  Two are fully qualified....answer each question correctly, and are non-vax.  The third guy shows marginal skills but is vaxed-up, and he's the one you hire.....fully expecting his period to be short-lived.  

If this mandate business does occur, I expect a unemployment crisis in Germany for a period of six to twelve months.  

I also expect the EU to step in at some point by mid-summer and mandate that an employer can't ask Covid vax questions of any potential employee....complicating this matter even more.  

This whole mandate business might be an interesting business to view for 2022.