With postponement of vaccine obligation to Guadeloupe, government tries to find an exit to conflict

Suspended caregivers may be paid if they accept individual interview as part of the State’s dialogue mission. After December 31, a “professional reorientation” will be proposed to them.

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After two weeks of a social conflict in the impasse in Guadeloupe, and its replicas to Martinique and French Polynesia, the government has operated several levers to try to find an exit door. In a speech released on Friday, November 26, the Minister of Overseas, Sébastien Lecornu, spoke to the Guadeloupeans by going to evoke the issue of autonomy. “Some elected officials asked the problem of autonomy, he said. The government is ready to talk about it, there is no bad debate as long as these debates are used to solve the real problems of the daily Guadeloupéens. “

On the Social Front, Mr. Lecornu also announced the financing of “1,000 jobs helped for young people, with specific support and training”. Earlier in the day, the executive had also tried to dedicate the detonator of this crisis, resignant to grant an additional time to the immunization obligation of caregivers and firefighters, now repulsed as of December 31. In Martinique, the same postponement is granted to all the professionals concerned and not to the soil staff of the Island Hospital, as recommended by a mediation mission mandated by the executive to comply with the law of the law. August 5, 2021.

“The protection of the health of our fellow citizens (…) goes through the vaccination of all the professionals who care, rescue or accompany the French, and especially the most fragile of them”, wrote on Friday the ministries Overseas and health in a common statement. About 90% of Guadeloupe’s caregivers have at least received an injection of VVID-19 vaccine, according to the Regional Health Agency. The system announced proposes the remaining caregivers and firefighters to no longer see their remuneration suspended if they accept individual interview, as part of the government’s dialogue mission.

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At the Pointe-à-Pitre University Hospital, many mobilized caregivers were assigned by the lapidary announcement of their suspension, which had manifested, according to them, by a simple mail and without contact with the direction of the Human Resources of the Institution – The law nevertheless imposes a prior interview in case of suspension greater than three days.

“We are fighting for these rights to be respected, and we will continue to do so,” commented Gaby Keyboard, Secretary General of the Union of Health Workers, Union Section of the Guadeloupe Workers Union ( UTS-UGTG). “I have the impression that we do not listen to, that we do not understand. We ask for the end of the vaccination obligation, the sanitary pass and the reintegration” and not his postponement, said Jocelyn Zou , Secretary of the Union Force Workers of the Departmental Fire and Rescue Department of Guadeloupe, on a daily France-Antilles.

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