Self-financing and complex administrative procedures may hamper the deployment of rapid tests in companies.
While they have been gradually deployed for a few weeks in schools, colleges and high schools, the self-tests are absent subscribers in companies. Currently, the latter can already offer “rapid tests” to their employees, which they must finance themselves.
The latest update of the health protocol, published last night by the Ministry of Labor, confirms that they will now be able to offer the use of self-tests to their volunteer employees. But always at their expense, unlike schools.
Self-financing is not the only obstacle to the deployment of these self-tests in companies. Formally, it’s also a little complicated: you have to register with the Regional Health Agency (ARS), the data collected must be confidential and sent to the administration for management, maintenance and follow-up. In addition, the self-tests must be done in a random and “iterative” manner, in the words of the ministry, that is to say that we cannot systematize or impose daily tests at a fixed time on the voluntary employees of the department. ‘business.
Difficult to manage
Self-financing, complex administrative procedures, management of health data: these self-tests promise to be difficult for companies to manage, and that is why they are not massively implementing them for the moment.
In Luxembourg, the Minister of Labor announced last week that nearly six million “rapid antigenic tests” will be distributed to all companies in the country, Lorraine Actu reports, ie two self-tests per week and per employee, cross-border included.
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