Shanghai: Employers must not discriminate against recovered positive infections

　　At the Shanghai epidemic prevention and control press conference held today (11th), there was a situation in which recovered positive infected persons were discriminated against and could not find a job during the job search. Yin Xin, a spokesman for the Shanghai Municipal Government, responded.

　　Yin Xin said that my country's labor law, employment promotion law, infectious disease prevention and control law and other laws and regulations clearly stipulate that workers have equal rights to employment and to choose occupations in accordance with the law.

According to the relevant provisions of the Employment Promotion Law and the Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases, the employer shall not engage in work that is prohibited by relevant regulations and may cause the spread of infectious diseases, unless it has been medically identified that the carrier of the infectious disease pathogen is cured or the suspicion of infection is excluded. Recruiters shall not refuse to be hired on the grounds that they are carriers of infectious disease pathogens.

No unit or individual may discriminate against infectious disease patients, pathogen carriers and suspected infectious disease patients.

　　The Supreme Court, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and other departments have also issued special regulations, making it clear that employers cannot only use workers as confirmed patients with new coronary pneumonia, suspected patients with new coronary pneumonia, asymptomatic infections, people who have been quarantined according to law, or workers from the epidemic. Serious regional grounds to terminate the labor relationship.

　　All departments and units in Shanghai should, in accordance with relevant laws and regulations, treat people who have recovered from COVID-19 equally without discrimination.

All sectors of the society should give more care and care to those who have recovered from COVID-19. They should not be labeled, set barriers in their work and life, and should not be allowed to live in the shadows they should not have.

　　Finally, I hope that through the joint efforts of everyone, these people who are on the road to job hunting can find their favorite jobs as soon as possible, and hope that in the future, they can work with peace of mind and steadfastness.

　　(Headquarters reporter Zhang Qian, Wei Rancheng Yilin)