"Human Resources and Emiratisation": An initiative that has social responsibility ... and the vaccine is optional

Families reward their domestic workers for the Corona vaccination ... with one month's salary

The heads of families of citizens and residents have allocated financial rewards and incentives to encourage domestic workers to receive the Coronavirus vaccine, and to abide by the precautionary measures inside and outside their homes.

The incentives included granting the worker two days off per week, and a monetary bonus of up to an additional month on the salary.

The heads of families stressed the importance of their initiative to protect their families from the dangers of the "Covid-19" pandemic, considering that protecting family members begins with protecting domestic workers.

The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation noted the families ’keenness to persuade their domestic workers to receive the Corona vaccine, pointing out that“ these measures come in line with the efforts made by the state at the level of complete health care for the citizen and resident. ”

In detail, citizen Hamdan Saeed Al-Ahmadi said: “We live with the father and mother at home, and because they are old, I make sure all family members receive the regular influenza vaccine annually, fearing for their health from any infection.

We also agree with the assisting workers, before contracting with them, to receive the influenza vaccine to protect all those around our parents. ”

He added: “With the onset of the Coronavirus, we raised the preventive alert at home to the highest degree, and adhered to the precautionary measures, which are matters that everyone who lives and works at home understands.

That is why the vaccination campaign against the virus was a breather for us all.

In order to encourage the members of the domestic workers to receive the vaccine, the father decided to reward all of them with a month’s salary on the day they received the vaccine.

Citizen Ahmed bin Ali Al-Ameri confirmed that the increase witnessed by the state in the number of people infected with the Coronavirus during the previous period was a motivation to tighten precautionary measures and preventive measures inside his home and in the vicinity of his family, pointing out that he met with the help workers at home and talked with them about the need to obtain The anti-virus vaccine, to protect themselves, especially since most of them always go out of the house.

Al-Amiri said: “My family and I were keen to receive the anti-virus vaccine as soon as it was available.

Some members of the workers also received assistance, such as the driver and the cook, the vaccine, voluntarily on their own accord, for their confidence in his ability to provide protection for them from the risks of contracting the virus, but the rest of the workers did not get the vaccine until after sitting down and talking with them and persuading them, and allocating some incentives to them. Pointing out that everyone living in his home received the two doses of the vaccine.

The director of a technology and technology company, Samir Ibrahim Al-Dali, stated that he sat with the nanny before he and his wife went to receive the vaccine, to persuade her to accompany them, but she showed unreasonable fear (as he put it), but he and his wife explained to her the danger of not receiving the vaccine, especially since she leaves their home every day to sleep In her independent residence.

Al-Dali said, “I refuse to place any arbitrary conditions on my workers, whether in my company or at home.

But in the face of a pandemic that may strike everyone, we must initiate decisive decisions to protect us and our families from risks, which prompted me to sit more than once with the nanny and workers in my company, to motivate them to take the vaccine.

He added: “At the household level, I decided to give the nanny two days off the week, from the date she received the first dose of the vaccine, until the week after she received the second dose.

It is a period of more than a month, especially since my wife and I have a weekend leave on Friday and Saturday.

As for the company, a financial reward of 200 dirhams was allocated to each worker who received the vaccine, while giving him leave during the two days in which he received the first and second doses.

Mahra Abdullah said: “I agreed with my family and workers that receiving the vaccine is the only way to return to the practice of life as it was before the emergence of the virus, because domestic workers are the most mixed with abroad and family, they go to cooperative societies and markets, and they spend their vacations with their relatives and friends. Upon their return, they mix with family members, which poses a danger to everyone, especially the elderly.

That is why it was necessary for them to get the vaccine. ”

For its part, the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation considered the keenness of citizens and residents to persuade workers to receive the Corona vaccine as a kind of “having societal and humanitarian responsibility towards a group that always needs support, support and awareness”, pointing out that “this initiative comes in line with what it is doing. The state has made efforts at the level of full health care for citizens and residents.

She said that families with domestic workers should take similar initiatives, because the benefits of vaccination accrue to everyone.

The Ministry stated that it launched a number of indicative campaigns, with the start of the vaccination campaign against the virus, to educate workers and employees of the private sector, and assistive workers, about the importance of receiving the anti-Corona vaccine to protect people, families and society from the pandemic, stressing that it encouraged companies to provide possible facilities to employees. And workers wishing to receive the vaccine, with emphasis that this procedure is optional and is due to personal satisfaction.

Human Resources and Emiratisation:

• “Families who have domestic workers should take similar initiatives, because the benefit of vaccination benefits everyone.”

• «The initiative is a continuation of the state’s health efforts to take care of the citizen and the resident.

Awareness campaigns

Government agencies and companies affiliated with the private sector launched awareness and guidance campaigns bearing the slogan “I chose to vaccinate” to motivate their employees to receive the Coronavirus vaccine, which the state provides free of charge to its citizens and residents on its territory, stressing that vaccines are the most capable way to restore normal life.

The campaigns included posting leaflets on walls, billboards and elevators at work places to raise awareness of the importance of the vaccine and its role in preserving the health of the employee and his family members, in addition to broadcasting instructional videos about the safety of the vaccine, and the methods, places and conditions for obtaining it.

Infection transmission

Official health authorities called on families to enhance awareness of preventive measures against the virus in their domestic workers, and to provide them with personal protection when leaving the house, stressing that “the failure of some members of assistive workers to adhere to preventive measures from the Coronavirus (Covid-19), which caused the transmission of infection. From outside to inside the families for which they work.

She stated that "exaggeration in the degree of reassurance of this group often leads to a problem, as it believes that it will not be affected by the injury, which leads to complacency, but the truth is that it is considered a transport agent for others, whether inside or outside her family."

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