Taking care of workers' health during the Covid-19 pandemic

 

Protect workers' health

Currently, many businesses that gather a large number of workers in the province have temporarily given employees a break to join the locality in disease prevention and control. Depending on the actual situation, enterprises will continue to issue new notices to employees. During the break, employees who take a break from work will be paid full benefits by the factories and receive a minimum wage of VND170,000 per day per person.

Ms. Dang Thi Thom, Chairwoman of the Trade Union of Dona Pacific Co., Ltd. said that maintaining and stabilizing production, keeping promises with customers is very important for businesses, so the health of employees must always be the top priority in taking care. Therefore, before the epidemic situation appeared in a number of enterprises in the province and many workers were in isolation and blockade areas, the corporation had a meeting with the leaders of the factories and agreed to temporarily suspend operations and allow temporary employees to rest for safety. During this time, factories continue to organize disinfection to ensure the safety of production workshops when workers return to work. Trade unions and businesses have encouraged employees to strictly follow the local epidemic prevention and control regulations to control the disease well.

At this time, businesses that are operating all organize Covid-19 testing for employees. At Hwaseung Vina Co., Ltd (Nhon Trach District), an enterprise with 15,000 employees, has organized Covid-19 screening tests for all employees at the company. Previously, the company's trade union gave 30,000 boxes of masks to union members and employees. In addition, the company ordered more than 60,000 doses of vaccine to inject Covid-19 for employees. Recently, the company has given employees a leave of absence to prevent epidemics and receive a minimum wage of VND170,000 per day.

Ms. Tran Thi Thu, working at the company, said: “It is very necessary that the company organizes Covid-19 testing for workers and we feel more secure when working. Because more than anyone else, at this time, many workers are both worried about the epidemic and worried about losing their jobs then become unemployed. Therefore, it is better to work in a safe environment and have a stable income. We hope that businesses will continue to have many plans to protect the health of employees in the complicated situation of the epidemic."

In addition to a number of businesses temporarily suspending operations to control the epidemic, limit the spread to enterprises, Industrial Zones and communities, a number of enterprises with few workers have arranged temporary accommodation for employees according to the model "3 things on spot”, restricting travel to protect the health of employees, while not affecting the company's production chain. Enterprises also have thoughtful salary, bonus and allowance to encourage the working spirit of employees.

Anh Nghia ANCL Co., Ltd. Installs disinfecting machines for workers

Workers hope to get vaccinated soon

Recently, Dong Nai has proposed to the Ministry of Health to create favorable conditions for supplementing vaccines to conduct Covid-19 vaccination for workers, contributing to ensuring continuous production and business activities, avoiding disruption of the supply chain for domestical and international markets.

Also related to the Covid-19 vaccine for workers, the Provincial Confederation of Labor (Confederation of Labor) has written suggestion to the Provincial People's Committee to consider and prioritize the allocation of Covid-19 vaccine to workers as soon as possible. According to the Provincial Confederation of Labor, currently the situation of the Covid-19 epidemic is complicated, infections have appeared in many enterprises with a large number of workers, there have been enterprises with secondary infections with a high number of positive cases. Up to now, there have been 216 enterprises in the province have had workers affected by the epidemic, mainly in the production of garments, leather shoes, etc.

Along with that, the invasion of the epidemic on a large scale in many localities and many businesses affected the psychology of union members and employees working in enterprises. In order to ensure safety in production and business, encourage employees to be enthusiastic about emulation and production, successfully implement the Government's "dual" goal in disease prevention and control, giving priority to vaccination. Vaccination against epidemics for union members and employees at enterprises in the recent time is very important to protect workers' health and control disease well.

Mr. Dang Tuan Tu, Chairman of the Trade union of Chang shin Vietnam Vietnam Co., Ltd. said that in order to ensure the realization of the dual goals of both economic development and the prevention and control of the Covid-19 epidemic, the people that needs to be prioritized for vaccines is now the main one. are workers in industrial parks and export processing zones. Many employees working at enterprises in the province in particular and at Chang shin Vietnam Company in particular are looking forward to receiving vaccines to work safely. Previously, to protect the health of employees, the company registered to buy 84,000 doses of vaccine to vaccinate employees throughout the company.

Ms. Tran Thi Hanh, working at a garment enterprise in Bien Hoa City, said that as soon as information about social distancing was announced in the province, the company made a certificate cards so that workers could present it at the checkpoints coming in and out to the workshop. However, when going to work, employees are still worried despite the company's careful prevention of the epidemic. Therefore, she and many employees are looking forward to being prioritized Vaccination to protect health when the disease is spreading rapidly in localities.

“In addition to the low income, the workers cannot work from home like many other occupations. Factories are crowded, workers are also crowded, so it is inevitable to worry. In many other professions, people can still hold out for a long time, but it's very difficult for workers, so everyone wants to get vaccinated soon," Hanh said.

According to local trade union staffs, under the impact and influence of the Covid-19 epidemic, businesses in Dong Nai are facing many difficulties. In particular, the decrease in the labor force involved in production due to the increasing number of workers in quarantined and isolated areas, furthermore, the interruption of access to customers and supply chains of many businesses has been happening. Enterprises look forward to sharing and supporting to overcome difficulties at this time in order to maintain production, ensure jobs and income of employees.

Phong Lan