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2021-02-20T21:37:15.449Z


| consumption The Ministry of Health, the Manufacturers' Association, MDA and Alon Headquarters have agreed on a national vaccination campaign • Dozens of companies have already responded to the challenge and are accompanying the operation with information and gifts for vaccinators • Nestle Barn VP: "Creating a better world" More than half of the workers in the barn have already been vaccinated Photo:  Yoss


The Ministry of Health, the Manufacturers' Association, MDA and Alon Headquarters have agreed on a national vaccination campaign • Dozens of companies have already responded to the challenge and are accompanying the operation with information and gifts for vaccinators • Nestle Barn VP: "Creating a better world"

  • More than half of the workers in the barn have already been vaccinated

    Photo: 

    Yossi Zeliger

"Currently, a vaccination campaign is compatible with 50 workplaces, and we are in the process with other companies. In some workplaces, the vaccination campaigns have already been carried out and we will continue this week and next. The vaccination rate in the workplace is determined by vaccinators' expectations." % To 169%, "Israel Today was informed by the Ministry of Health.

According to the same data, as of last Thursday, 3,761 people had been vaccinated in the workplace.

Of these: 1,500 aged 19-29, 1,168 aged 30-39, 612 aged 40-49, 330 aged 50-59, 115 aged 60-69, 17 aged 16-18, 13 aged 70-79 and 6 aged 80 and over.

The vaccination campaign continues // Photo: Moshe Ben Simhon and Newsenders

Many companies immediately responded to the national challenge and most of them accompany the vaccination campaign with information and some offer vaccinators encouragement gifts and even a day off as a gift for employees who suffer from side effects from the vaccine.

Among the companies that joined: Bituach Yashir, Maimon Yashir and Bank Hapoalim, Pelephone Yes and Bezeq International, Partner, HOT Group, Rav Briach, Crowne Plaza, Applied Materials, Playtica, Adama Group, AppsFlyer and more.

The Sodastream factory employs about 2,500 workers in the Lehavim-Rahat industrial area, who come from all walks of life in Israeli society.

Last week, Sodastream set up a vaccine mobile in the factory area in cooperation with the Ministry of Health and MDA, and at the same time launched a wide-ranging and focused information activity. In 24 hours, we vaccinated about 1,000 workers, most of them from sectors that have so far been characterized by low response to vaccines.

Barn: Take responsibility

"Israel Today" photographer joined the Nestle barn vaccination campaign on the company's website in Shoham, where an MDA mobile arrived to encourage workers to get vaccinated. Pini Kimmelman, Nestle Barn's VP of human resources, described the move and said: Today the deaths of more than 2.5 million people worldwide and the morbidity of more than 100 million people.The virus caused severe economic damage to a billion people, businesses and companies.Our ambition in the barn is to take responsibility and go get vaccinated, and do everything we can to create a good world More.

"We are an organization with 4,000 employees. In the Corona year we have chosen two main goals, which are: maintaining employee health and business continuity and production, while continuous employment. Vaccinations are a groundbreaking move that can return to a full routine. We do everything we can to encourage vaccination. Regularly emails to employees in various languages. In addition, we organized professional lectures by doctors who will explain the vaccine and organized mid-day shuttles to the HMOs at the expense of working time. We now do this using an MDA mobile that is stored on our site in Shoham, where the sites are located Logistics, trade and executive staff.

"We connected other factories located in the industrial area, and together with the regional council and the economic company we brought the vaccines. Today more than 100 company employees were vaccinated. Some, of course, have already been vaccinated outside the workplace. Today more than half of the Osem group workers have been vaccinated. "In some of the sites, we have reached 75%. We intend to reach other sites of the company through the vaccination campaign and in cooperation with other companies that are in the same industrial areas."

Have you encountered resistance to getting vaccinated by some of the employees?

"Our goal is to encourage workers. We do not force, we do it out of concern for their health. We have a responsibility as employers towards workers for their health and safety. Workers who do not want to be vaccinated, we can not force them. Overall the responses are very positive, and they greatly appreciate The fact that we bring the vaccine to them for work and that we drove them to the health funds to get vaccinated at the expense of working hours. "

"Keep unvaccinated away"

Meanwhile, the Manufacturers' Association, the Ministry of Health, Alon Headquarters and MDA have agreed on a joint initiative for vaccinations in the field of employees of industrial companies and high-tech companies. The vaccines will be granted to all workers, regardless of the health fund insured. Or in an industrial area.

Vaccination campaign around the country // Photo: Photo: Shmuel Buharis, Moshe Ben Simhon

According to President of the Manufacturers Association and Chairman of Employers and Businesses, Dr. Ron Tomer, "We are making every effort on all fronts to raise the vaccination rate among industrial and high-tech workers. Because there are workers who can get vaccinated, but choose not to do so, we "They demand from the government the possibility of taking them out to the IDF, or not paying them for isolation days if they are required to do so."

Source: israelhayom

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