On Thursday, the JPP alleged that more than a dozen professionals are being compelled to return to work, with some expected to resume duties only after the academic year ends, leaving them without childcare options.
The specific risk subsidy is a financial aid granted to pregnant women, those who have recently given birth, or are breastfeeding, and are unable to work due to health and safety risks posed by their jobs.
The Sesaram stated in a communiqué that it currently has the means to adapt duties for these nurses through a “reorganization of tasks among professionals of the same career.”
“The evolution of working conditions is incompatible with requests made for one year, two years, or even five years,” the statement noted, ensuring that “this directive does not violate the rights to special conditions of safety and health in workplaces.”
The regional service “repudiates (…) the accusations made against this institution and regrets that they are based on incorrect premises, undermining its good name,” the note further reads.
“To question the health system through unfounded insinuations, or attempt to shift the focus toward personal and/or partisan interests, politicizing health, is an affront to this institution and its human resources,” it emphasized.
The JPP claimed there is an “inadmissible violation by a public health entity,” highlighting that “one of the arguments favoring these mothers pertains to the prior authorization granted by the services.”
In a communiqué released on Thursday as part of a political activity, the JPP mentioned that the matter is currently under legal review.
“Anyone with babies understands the difficulty of securing spots in a daycare outside the so-called ‘normal’ period without prior registration. Clearly, these mothers had an approved leave and, therefore, did not enroll their babies in daycare and organized their lives according to the availability provided by law and the services,” emphasized the party’s president, Lina Pereira, as cited in the note.
