China: Discrimination surged with covid recovered employees in Shanghai, Unemployment likely to boost
_Vinayak Barot
New Delhi: The situation in China post-pandemic and several lockdowns has changed massively. The scenario in China nowadays – is not like what people are seeing with thousands of kilometers of distance. After the covid lockdowns and restrictions in the major cities of the communist country, the local people – who recovered from covid are facing discrimination in jobs.
To remove this unethical activity from the market, the Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress passed a decision on Thursday, banning employers from terminating contracts or refusing to hire those who have suffered from infectious diseases.
The city also curtailed the time to check a person’s nucleic acid test history record from two months to half a month, which is viewed as a “pragmatic and positive” change for people struggling to find a job.
The decisions were made by the Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress after the media reported that some people in Shanghai who had recovered from COVID-19 were left jobless and homeless in the city for more than a month.
Earlier this month, the media reported that those who had recovered from COVID-19 were struggling to find jobs in Shanghai, as they were rejected by some employers due to their history of infection.
The Legislative Affairs Commission of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress said that Shanghai’s job market was severely challenged by COVID-19 this year. As a result, the financial hub’s unemployment rate soared to 12.5 percent in the second quarter. So it is time to roll out relevant solutions to employment-related legal terms, and it asked all parties in society to assist in boosting employment.
Yan Zuqiang, an official from the Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress, said that recently, requests from university graduates and people who lost their jobs due to COVID-19 have been piling up. There have also been labor disputes, which prompted the government to step in.
