Employers refuse to hire staff because of past COVID infection?!

A worker who had tested positive while working in a makeshift hospital in Shanghai but has since been discharged was denied entry by many enterprises.

At Monday's press conference, Shanghai government spokesperson Yin Xin stressed stressed that all departments and units should treat people recovering from COVID-19 equally and without discrimination in accordance with relevant requirements of laws and regulations.

Previously, some media reported that job postings from certain companies indicated they were not hiring candidates who were previously infected with COVID-19, sparking widespread public concern.

Yin pointed out that China's labor law, employment promotion law and infectious disease prevention and control law, among other laws and regulations, clearly stipulate that employers may not refuse to hire people on the basis of being carriers of infectious diseases unless a medical evaluation shows that they are unsuitable for jobs that make it easy for infectious diseases to spread.

No company or individual may discriminate against patients, carriers of infectious diseases and suspected infectious patients, the official stressed.

Source: globaltimes

Editor: CH

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