75% of employees of the Executive function would have received the doses against the coronavirus. As of May there were more than 466,000 bureaucrats.
While some entities public they requested again to their workers vaccination cards against the coronavirus this week, in others no document has been requested.
The Emergency Operations Committee (COE) national ordered the Ministry of Labor to issue the corresponding regulations so that all public institutions of the Executive request vaccination certificate or card with the complete scheme (two doses) to all public officials who work under face-to-face modality. That measure came into effect from last Wednesday, December 1.
“Those people who for some reason do not have the corresponding vaccines should take advantage of the teleworking modality”Stated the communication secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic, in a statement in which it also urged public and private entities to apply this measure in their facilities.
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Juan Zapata, president of the national COE and director of the ECU911, estimated that more than 75% of the public sector is vaccinated.
According to the Ministry of Labor, as of May 31, 2021, there were 466,993 public servants at the national level; Decentralized autonomous governments, public companies, public banking and social security are not included.
Zapata argued that, in the case of the ECU911, at the entrance of the building the certificate is not requested but they have returned physically because the databases exist of people who are inoculated. “In the ECU911, I am working almost 100% because it is a strategic unit,” said Zapata.
That State portfolio established that within the public sector facilities, the highest authority of each institution will define the restrictions on the number of people who can work in person in the respective work centers and the vaccination card with the complete scheme will be required.
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Ivan Bastidas, President of the National Confederation of Public Servants of Ecuador (Conasep), that groups ministries, said that between Wednesday and Friday they have not presented any document upon entering their buildings, as he argued that there are controls on the placement of vaccines made by each administrative unit of human talent in the state portfolios.
Bastidas said that there was a schedule defined by the Government to which they were accepted.
In some ministries, the mechanism for delivering the document, for example, was through email with the two doses to the department of social welfare, according to workers.
Those who do not go physically are mothers with young infants in lactation or people suffering from diseases.
In other public institutions that do not belong to the executive function, they must present daily the vaccination document when entering the offices.
In the National Telecommunications Corporation (CNT), a public company, there is a database with a file of people vaccinated and on what date. (I)
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