Greece’s deputy Labor minister announced on Wednesday morning that unvaccinated personnel in private nursing homes will be dismissed after the unpaid furlough. Speaking to Open TV on Wednesday morning, Deputy Labor and Social Affairs Minister Domna Michailidou has stressed that “those not wishing to get vaccinated after some time will be dismissed.”
A few hours later, she was apparently forced to correct the unprecedented measure and issued a statement saying:
“There will be no amendment of the existing legislative framework in the public and private sector that will link unpaid furlough from work due to non-vaccination with dismissal.
My morning statement regarding a measure that will link the mandatory vaccination requirement for staff in private care homes for the elderly with dismissals was wrong.”
She clarified that there will be no amendment of existing laws in the direction of dismissal.
Michailidou had said a day earlier, that in private facilities the rate of vaccinated elderly is 85% and of the personnel at 65%, while in public facilities 77% of elderly were vaccinated and 45% of the staff.
Was her dismissal statement “wrong” in terms of timing as it revealed government plans for the near future?
In its frontpage report, newspaper Efimerida Ton Syntakton see in the furlough measures for the unvaccinated announced by the Prime Minister on Monday an expansion of the plan to other private sectors.
Lawyers dealing with labor issues stress the need to protect and safeguard workers and employees from the arbitrariness and discrimination by employers.
The real labor life is not what the blue collar ministers of the government have in mind. “Furlough” for unvaccinated workers in nursing homes cannot be the solution for the pandemic problem as solutions need to be found to secure that such facilities operate smoothly even with reduced staff.
Owners of such homes, the majority of them are private in Greece, warned on Wednesday, that it is hard to find trained personnel in the elderly care to replace those in furlough.
What kind of employers and how many will accept to work one, two, more or less months in professions that require specific training that on its part it takes time, were some of the questions that the government and the deputy Labor minister most likely did not bother to take care of.
How can they Force you to get this vaccine when it is still considered experimental? Basically saying we know it is illegal to force you, but since you have to work to earn money to live you won’t fight the directives.
Good grief, that picture. This woman will now appear in my nightmares.