70,000 employees struggle with long-term covid: ‘Should regulation be blocked’

That is what employment lawyers Maarten van Gelderen and Pascal Besselink tell RTL Z.

A third of workers with long-term covid virus are not doing better even after a year, according to figures released Friday by the professional association for occupational health and safety services OVAL. BNR news channel has requested data.

“Solid numbers”

Numbers give an idea of ​​scale for the first time the group that has been covid for a long time, and how long exactly they have been out of the race.

“It used to be thought that there were several thousand employees, but these are huge numbers,” says Van Gelderen, employment lawyer at Van Gelderen.

An extra half year

The company is withdrawing its portfolio of health workers at risk of unemployment due to the prolonged covid. Employers can receive subsidies to keep these people in work for a minimum of six months and a maximum of one year. This should also apply to other employees.

“The hardest part is when you solve things for health, educators say they have the same problems. I also think that the government cannot avoid arranging things for other sectors as well, and maybe it would work well at the national level. Think how. they have to be prepared for that,” says Van Gelderen.

Source: RTL

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