cramped working and living conditions that employees face under loosely regulated sub-contractors.The use of subcontractors, which is common in the German meat industry and which the government now wants to ban, often results in migrant workers living in cramped communal housing and being transported to abattoirs in minibuses, putting them at greater risk of infection.Dr Ute Rexroth, a senior official involved in Germany's pandemic response, said this week that poverty seems to play a.