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A couple hundred people line up for the vaccination bus, which runs through Vilnius and stops in different parts of the city.
Without pre-registration, people are waiting for a coronavirus vaccine. It is true that some of the attendees admit that they were reluctantly vaccinated and only because the government and employers demanded it.
“There are no guarantees after this vaccine. What guarantee that I will not get sick, I will live, maybe I will not get off the bus alive? You have to live, pay for everything and not work without vaccines. I came to work on Monday, they tell me, I don’t have a vaccine, I can’t work ”, says the resident.
“I really didn’t want to get vaccinated, I need it to work,” says another resident.
“Voluntarily, the situation is getting worse, the weather, maybe I was skeptical at first, but now, I think it’s time,” says the resident.
Dissatisfied with the rate of vaccination in Lithuania, the government is already preparing new amendments to the legislation, which will increase the pressure on vaccination workers. The government is preparing to supplement the resolution and give employers the right to fire workers who refuse to be vaccinated indefinitely and are not paid for that time.
“There is already a list of professions in which people should get tested or vaccinated. These are education, health, recently entered transportation, the entire public sector. Now the consideration is to expand the list so that other employers can also demand it, ”says Deputy Minister Vytautas Šilinskas.
Employers are in favor of a new government plan to promote vaccination.
Dalius Gedvilas, vice president of the Confederation of Industrialists, says: He fell ill and could not fulfill the contract. “
Employers are pleased to learn that the government promises to let them decide when to remove an unvaccinated worker from work and when to allow them to continue working, such as outdoors or in another workplace where there is very little chance of infecting people. others. However, the government does not intend to limit itself to a single pressure medium to vaccinate. Employees are already preparing an additional plague: They threaten not to pay sickness benefit if an unvaccinated worker contracts the coronavirus.
“If a person is vaccinated and develops COVID-19 without being able to get vaccinated. As long as she is ill, the sickness benefit will not be paid because she took a higher risk, ”says V. Šilinskas.
Seeing that the government is developing new pressures to vaccinate workers, the unions are horrified and call them forced vaccinations. Unions threaten to fire some workers.
Kristina Krupavičienė, president of the Solidarumas union, says: “Let’s not exert this pressure, the resistance of the people will increase even more. The more pressure, those workers will take to the streets and we will have no one to work. And for employers, the business will end. “
Health Ministry officials are trying to ensure that not all workers who refuse to be vaccinated will be fired. Protection is promised to those who may be harmed by the vaccine, such as those with chronic diseases or allergic to vaccines. However, to continue working without vaccination, they will need to provide the employer with a GP certificate.
Artūras Šimkus, Advisor to the Ministry Division, says: “There is no exhaustive list of diseases. In each case, there must be an individual assessment, which must be carried out by a family doctor who better knows the history and diseases of the patient, insofar as they are incompatible with the vaccine ”.
And since some workers will work unvaccinated due to other diseases, officials do not see the danger that the conditions for the spread of the virus will be close to zero if the majority of workers are vaccinated. The ministries are in a hurry to draft new legal acts before August 10, after which they will need to be adopted by the government and the Seimas.
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