They fear that the number of vaccinated staff will not be enough to keep up.
This Friday, the FO-Santé union asked the government for "additional time" for the implementation of the vaccination obligation, supposed to apply from September 15 for hospital staff.
"Nursing staff who have not complied with this obligation by this date will no longer be able to work and will no longer be paid", announced in July, the Minister of Solidarity and Health Olivier Véran. Employers - regional health agencies, school management, health insurance - "will be empowered to carry out checks as already exists in common law for other diseases, in particular hepatitis B", detailed the minister.
"The obligation on September 15 will generate situations which, in places, will be unmanageable," said the secretary general of FO-Santé, Didier Birig, in a letter addressed to the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, and distributed to the press .
On that date, employees of hospitals and nursing homes who have not received at least one dose of vaccine against Covid-19 may be suspended, without remuneration.
Fear of bed closures
Caregivers who are not vaccinated by September 15 therefore risk seeing their employment contract suspended for a few weeks, time to comply, a "first step" before "a layoff", or even "a dismissal" s 'they refuse vaccination, said Élisabeth Borne.
The union leader is worried about "the difficulties that the application of sanctions would cause in certain structures, where the closures of services and beds are being considered for lack of sufficient staff to take care of the sick".
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He therefore asks the government to grant the agents concerned "an additional period in order to be able to enroll in a vaccination cycle", as is already the case in the overseas departments, currently overwhelmed by the fourth epidemic wave. .
Among caregivers alone, vaccination coverage was estimated at 87% as of August 31, up about 1.5 points in one week, according to the latest report from Public Health France. The situation is also of concern to the CGT-Santé, which calls on staff in hospitals and nursing homes to demonstrate on September 14, also hoping that the executive will agree to “extend the deadlines” or waive the sanctions.
