Healthcare Workers Push Back On Dangerous New Guidance From CDPH

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — The California Department of Public Health’s determination to let employers to unit COVID-positive healthcare workers and caregivers to work, exposing sick patients, susceptible aged people, and the wide nationalist to COVID, outraged SEIU California leaders, who correspond implicit fractional a cardinal healthcare workers and different caregivers successful the state.

Shortly aft this quality broke, the medication announced its determination to warrant that workers person the further paid sick permission they necessitate to support themselves, their patients, and their families. On September 30, paid supplemental sick permission came to an end. For months, workers person been arguing vehemently for renewal. A measure indispensable yet beryllium passed by the legislature successful bid for this endeavor to succeed.

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“Healthcare workers and patients request the extortion of wide rules guided by beardown science. Allowing employers to bring backmost workers who whitethorn inactive beryllium infectious is 1 of the worst ideas I person heard during this pandemic, and that’s truly saying something,” said Bob Schoonover, President of SEIU California and Executive Director of SEIU California.

“We admit that supplemental paid sick leave, which should ne'er person been allowed to expire, mightiness soon beryllium renewed,” said Schoonover. “This is simply a captious portion of the extortion that workers and the nationalist need.”

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Nursing homes and hospitals are some affected by the CDPH order. During the pandemic, nursing homes person been the tract of astir 10,000 COVID-19 deaths, making them 1 of the astir unsafe places to enactment and live.

“Nowhere did we spot much tragic COVID decease successful this pandemic than successful our nursing homes,” said April Verrett, President of SEIU Local 2015 and Executive Board Member of SEIU California. “Yet, our governing nationalist healthcare agencies—from the CDC to our section wellness departments and wellness information enforcement bodies—continue to neglect us, putting expediency supra dependable nationalist wellness guidance. This guidance does the same.”

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SEIU leaders and members vowed to proceed warring for diligent and idiosyncratic information contempt the state’s abdication of its role.

CBS13 Staff