Her remarks caused an uproar Deputy Minister of Welfare and Social Solidarity, Domna Michailidou, on a television station, on the morning of Wednesday, July 14. Ms. Michailidou claimed that the employees In long-term care facilities, residents who will not be vaccinated will be placed in parole and then we will are being laid off.
The Deputy Minister of Welfare and Social Solidarity had specifically argued that if an employee persists in their initial decision not to get vaccinated even after the mandatory unpaid leave period has ended , then the employer she will be able to proceed with the dismissal. However, in a new statement, she was quick to retract her earlier position and admit that she was wrong.
“My statement this morning regarding a regulation that would link mandatory vaccination for employees at private elderly care facilities to layoffs was incorrect.
”There will be no amendment to the current legal framework in the public and private sectors that would link absence from work due to unpaid leave for failure to get vaccinated with dismissal," he noted.
