Ruginiene: We receive reports that employees are being intimidated and forced to get vaccinated.

According to I. Ruginienė, some people feel worse after having been vaccinated for at least one day.

“An employee who gets vaccinated the next day may have difficulties performing his duties. We are not talking about easy work, we are talking about manufacturing companies where you need to be on the machine, physically work a lot and when you have a temperature of 38 degrees, it is unlikely that you can perform those functions, “he told Delfi Day.

“This proposal is related to the fact that they allow me, dear employers, to recover one day after vaccination, that a person will come with 100% strength after the rest day,” added I. Ruginienė.

According to her, it would also be beneficial for the employers themselves.

“First of all, it is difficult for a person to get to a family doctor now, but if he does, he cannot take one, two, but maybe five days of incapacity to work. Is this what employers really want? Another thing is that employers pay for the first two days and yes, there will be no additional costs, ”said the president of the Lithuanian Trade Union Confederation.

At the time, Danas Arlauskas, president of the Lithuanian Employers’ Confederation, doubted that politicians were really trying to speed up vaccination by offering a “vaccination day”.

“I will not hide, I met the initiators. My question was very simple: what does it aspire to? Shine in the political sky or could it really motivate? We talked less about that motivation, there was more interest in how [darbuotojai] will react, or very positively. I lack the justification of what we want ”, he said.

According to D. Arlauskas, more employees could be vaccinated if the vaccination process were carried out in the companies themselves, especially in areas where it is more difficult to go to a laboratory or polyclinic.

“I interviewed 6 or 7 companies in preparation for the fair. The answers were very simple: if he came to the company to get vaccinated, it would be the greatest motivation ”, said the president of the Lithuanian Employers’ Confederation in the program“ Delfi diena ”.

I. Ruginienė states that some companies are already organizing vaccines and tests internally. Additionally, there have been recent reports of workers even being forced to get vaccinated.

“Last week we received many reports about vaccination processes in companies, when employees are forced to get vaccinated, intimidating in various ways. Some leave work, others threaten that employees will have to continue testing on their own, ”said I. Ruginienė.