Romania enters lockdown as medical workers protest

Romania has entered a partial lockdown. Schools throughout the country will switch to an online system. The new restrictions require employees that can work from home to switch to telework system if they have this possibility. Also wearing face mask will be mandatory in the entire country regardless of the number of cases. The measures were announced at the end of three days in which there were dramatic increases in the number of new cases of COVID, writes Cristian Gherasim.

At the same time health employees protest in Victoriei Square, Bucharest. They have been demanding better working conditions. Those present criticized the government leadership for not having any contact with the trade unionists in the health field who participated in the rally in front of the government headquarters.

On the other hand, the union leader said that one of the grievances that determined the health unionists to organize the rally in Victoriei Square was the fact that many of the health workers have not yet received the 30% increase that they would he had to collect it during the state of emergency and during the next three months after the expiration of the state of emergency, according to Law 56/2020.

Also, the co-president of the Federation "Sanitary Solidarity" showed that most hospitals managers did not grant the pay increase of between 55-85% to all employees who were entitled to it.

Dozens of health workers, members of the 'Sanitary Solidarity' Federation of Romania, participated in a protest rally in Victoriei Square , asking the Government, among other things, to pay the outstanding salary rights, drawing attention to the exhaustion of health personnel .

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