The fifth wave of the epidemic is raging. Earlier, the government announced to amend the Employment Ordinance to reduce labor disputes. However, some organizations criticized the government's lack of comprehensive consideration in the amendments, which made many grass-roots employees become victims of the anti-epidemic policy.
Caritas Community Development Service held a press conference today (24th), suggesting that the government should immediately stop the amendment work on vaccination as non-unreasonable dismissal. He was not accepted by the company, and after being fired, he is now "returning 2,000 mosquitoes when he becomes a deputy", and his life is miserable.
The 43-year-old has obtained a doctor's certificate from the government that exempts him from vaccination, but his employer still requires all employees to be vaccinated, so Ah Jin was fired until the end of last month.
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In response to the development of the epidemic, the government announced on February 8 that it plans to amend the Employment Ordinance to reduce labor disputes in the fight against the epidemic. Reasonable dismissal".
Man Xiaozhen, a social worker of Caritas Community Development Service, said that she found that some employees were dismissed by the company even though they had a doctor’s exemption certificate issued by the government. Grassroots wage earners are affected.
Restaurants need to transform Class A, B, C restaurants to dismiss employees exempted from injections
Ah Jin, a 43-year-old who works in the catering industry, lives alone in a single room in Cheung Sha Wan. He has been a chronically ill patient since he was a child and is sensitive to medicines.
In January, he found a job with a monthly salary of 17,000 yuan. As of January 27, the manager said that the restaurant decided to transform into a restaurant of Category A, B, and C, requiring employees to get injections. Although the employer still requires all employees to be vaccinated, Ah Jin was fired until the end of the month.
Ah Jin believes that the manager has always been very satisfied with his work performance. The other party has repeatedly stated that he does not want him to leave, and described Ah Jin as a very good partner. , "It's not easy to get a job, and it's even harder to get a good job."
Ah Jin's life is currently stretched, "to become a deputy net worth 2,000 mosquitoes." He said that the market atmosphere is poor. He usually looks for a job in the WhatsApp job group, but the group has not received any notices in the past two weeks. like winter.
No amount of funding can match a real job
Seeing that many people around him shared that they were forced to have injections because of their work, and as a result, they had to suffer certain side effects and affect their health, Ah Jin felt very sad about this. The normal job is real, and I don’t want this job to be “conditional”, and I don’t want to see forced injections again.
Ah Jin has worked in the restaurant for less than a month and has not yet passed the probationary period, so the employer can use this to fire him.
When asked if there was a doctor who was still terribly dismissed, if he planned to file a complaint with the Labour Department, Ah Jin said, "I didn't think about the previous complaint to the Labour Department, but I wanted to go to work instead."
In a telephone interview, A Ling said that the government's general department claimed that it did not have the power to issue a doctor's certificate for her, but the specialist diagnosis was scheduled to 2023, and it would take a year before she could get the doctor's certificate, so the work is now tragically suspended. , the day of resumption of work is still far away.
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The government's specialist diagnosis needs to be scheduled until 2023, and the food delivery staff are tragically suspended indefinitely
A Ling, who works as a chef in a restaurant, is nearly 60 years old. Earlier, her lymph nodes were swollen. She went to a Chinese medicine doctor. But when she came to the new company, she was required to have a doctor's certificate issued by the government to be exempted.
In a telephone interview, A Ling said that the government's general department claimed that it did not have the power to issue a doctor's certificate for her, but the specialist diagnosis was scheduled to 2023, and it would take a year before she could get the doctor's certificate, so the work is now tragically suspended. , the day of resumption of work is still far away.
Ah Ling believes that these grassroots hands stop talking, and they can only live on for about a month with their savings.
A Ling said that her work performance was not a problem. At that time, she was recommended by others to work in a new company. After Christmas, the restaurant business was good, but at that time, two food delivery workers left, and she and two other workers had to work extremely hard. Therefore, it is believed that the reason why the restaurant fired her was because of her age and refusal to have injections.
In response to the development of the epidemic, the government announced on February 8 that it plans to amend the Employment Ordinance to reduce labor disputes during the fight against the epidemic. Reasonable dismissal".
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Promoting home isolation as "sick leave"
Caritas social worker Wong Wai-han said that citizens have worked very hard to cooperate with the government's anti-epidemic policies. For example, A Ling takes the trouble to conduct multiple tests every week. Therefore, he believes that the government should protect this group of grassroots citizens.
Another social worker, Wu Baiming, said that many grass-roots employees face the same situation. If the government takes the lead in stating that employers can not dismiss employees in accordance with the "Employment Ordinance", even employees are exploited for their most basic compensation, and they may lose their jobs and terminate their employment. Kim, urging the government to immediately stop work on amendments that define vaccination as non-unreasonable dismissal.
In addition, Caritas suggested that the definition of medical certification for home quarantine should be broadened, that is, when the confirmed cases or close contacts are required to stay at home for quarantine, the government should also issue "sick leave" to protect employees under home quarantine.
Vaccine passports will be implemented on the first day of February 24
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