The Supreme Court of Brazil suspended this Friday a government decree that prevented companies from requiring their employees a vaccination certificate against Covid-19 and that it stopped the dismissals of those who were not immunized.
The far-right president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, a skeptic of vaccines, has criticized the vaccination passports required in other countries. The country has suffered the second epidemic of coronavirus deadliest, behind only the United States.
Judge Luis Roberto Barroso said that the disease has killed 610,000 Brazilians and that it is reasonable to assume that the presence of unvaccinated employees poses a threat to the health of others.
“The lack of vaccination interferes with the rights of others,” he wrote in his sentence requested by four opposition parties.
The government decree was issued earlier this month by Labor Minister Onyx Lorenzoni, who said allowing companies to fire employees who refuse to be vaccinated was absurd and a violation of their rights.
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx