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In New York, hundreds of Covid-19 deaths have been stored for more than a year in trucks

11/05/2021

Reading time: 2 min – Spotted on The Independent

As New York City gradually recovers from the various waves of Covid-19 it has had to face, sad news reminds us how deadly the virus has been there. About 750 bodies of victims of the virus dating from the spring of 2020 are still stored in refrigerated trucks in the Brooklyn port area. It has therefore been twelve months since nearly forty trucks and their funeral contents have not moved.

You have to go back to April of last year to understand the situation. At that time, New York State was overwhelmed by Covid-19 and had nearly 1,000 daily deaths from the virus. Forensic scientists, equipped to treat about twenty bodies a day, then found themselves with nearly 200 corpses every day, specifies The Independent. Faced with this incessant influx of victims, the city had resigned itself to using refrigerated trucks to store the bodies until the hospitals and morgues were no longer under pressure.

Indignation

A year later, the remaining bodies should be moved shortly, adds the British media. Most of them should be brought to Hart Island, an island on the shores of the Bronx, known to be the largest mass grave in the United States.

This information concerning the remains of the victims of Covid-19, revealed a few days ago during a city council, has also aroused indignation. In particular, an advisor compared the management of these corpses to the treatment of found objects, reports RFI.

Today, New York is rising from its ashes, after being severely hit by the pandemic last spring and winter. The state now has nearly 1,600 new daily infections, a figure that is constantly decreasing, while about 60% of its 20 million inhabitants have already received at least one dose of vaccine, according to official figures. In order not to slow down, the city is now trying to convince the most reluctant and will soon offer free vaccinations in the metro.

Madrid opens the major project of labor market reform

11/05/2021

Fight against precariousness, reduction of structural unemployment, internal flexibility mechanisms for companies and simplification of young people ‘s access to employment, the Spanish Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz presented on Monday the main lines of her projects to reform the Labor Code. ” We are going to make the great revolution of the labor market “, She promises by announcing a” new social contract “Better suited for” defend the rights of workers in the 21st century ».

Open all the sites at the same time

She is determined to open all the sites at the same time. We will have to act quickly, because the government has promised Brussels to present a reform by the end of the year. ” The deadlines cannot be discussed, they will have to be respected, European funds depend on these major transformations », Insists the minister.

The issue is particularly sensitive and the social partners are on the defensive, especially since the government of Pedro Sánchez had come to power with the promise made to the unions to waive certain key aspects of the 2012 reform which, during the Mariano Rajoy, had made work more precarious and weakened collective bargaining. While the unions call for the reconquest of employee rights, the employers fear on the contrary a step backwards.

Supporting the dual green and digital transition

The Minister of Labor prefers for her part to break the deadlock by shifting the debates to another field ” much more ambitious ” she says. According to her, the question is no longer whether or not the country will return to the legislation before the 2008 economic crisis, but rather to look to the future to draw the framework that will accompany the major upheavals of the dual green and digital transition.

« This is a global transformation, a great revolution in the job market to abandon an outdated model and end incorrect and dysfunctional practices. », « We cannot continue to spread precariousness », She pleads, defending the need for rules adapted to new forms of work, to better protect and open up new rights. With, for example, the law on teleworking adopted last September, or the text of the “Riders Law” which passes in the Council of Ministers on Tuesday, to regulate the activity of deliverers of home delivery platforms by recognizing them. as full employees.

Dust off the Labor Code

The document sent to Brussels to present the labor reform plans to dust off the Labor Code by simplifying the methods of hiring, in three forms of contracts, indefinite, temporary or training. By the way, the exceptional partial unemployment mechanism which served to cushion the impact of the health crisis during the pandemic, will turn into a new lever of internal flexibility for companies. It should function as an alternative to layoffs or the sequence of short contracts, with also, in parallel, the creation of training and re-qualification mechanisms to facilitate the adaptation and reorientation of employees in sectors undergoing retraining.