Companies can deny work to those who do not want to vaccinate: Cidade Hoje

“As a businessman, I can decide who to sign a contract with,” Christa Schweng said in an interview with Spanish news agency Efe.

However, for the president of the EESC, an advisory body of the European Union that issues guidelines to EU institutions in the representations of entrepreneurs, workers and civil society organizations, the vaccine should not be mandatory.

“The worker can decide whether he wants to work or not and if he is asked for the vaccine to be able to sign a contract, although it should be seen if an entrepreneur only wants vaccinated people in his company. I don’t know what they will do, ”he said.

Regarding vaccination, Christa Schweng argued that the first to be vaccinated should be healthcare professionals, as they are in close contact with patients and the population at risk.

The EESC president also underlined the importance of the agreement established between the European Commission and pharmaceutical companies to guarantee vaccines for the whole of Europe.

So far the European Union has signed agreements with Pfizer and BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Sanofi-GSK and Johnson & Johnson, and has concluded negotiations with CureVac and Moderna.

Christa Schweng estimated that all vaccines could receive approval from the European Medicines Agency by the end of the year.