COVID-19-positive ex-patient was denied a job. How to protect your rights and interests when such a thing happens?

You should protect your own interests through litigation.

When the positive rehabilitation workers in COVID-19 are rejected, they can directly file a lawsuit with the people's court and protect their legitimate rights and interests through law. The employer's behavior has constituted employment discrimination and infringement to the parties, and it needs to bear the corresponding liability for compensation. At the same time, the recovered positive people in COVID-19 must go to the local labor department to reflect the problems and let the relevant departments intervene. It is necessary to increase the punishment for these enterprises and protect the legitimate rights and interests of recovered positive patients in COVID-19.

COVID-19-positive recovered people have returned to normal health and can work normally, but they have repeatedly hit a wall on the way to job hunting. Some enterprises always suggest that people who have been to shelters should not be portrayed positively, which leads to difficulties in job hunting and unfair treatment. Moreover, China's Employment Promotion Law clearly stipulates that employers should provide equal employment opportunities to workers when recruiting employees, and there should be no employment discrimination.

The employing unit shall not refuse to hire employees on the grounds of carriers of infectious diseases. If they refuse to hire employees, they will violate China's Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases and bear corresponding legal responsibilities. Therefore, when a positive recovered person is refused to work, he should take up legal weapons and go directly to court to file a lawsuit to safeguard his legitimate rights and interests. It's just that many COVID-19-positive patients are unwilling to make trouble, and even more unwilling to waste too long on the road of litigation, so they can only choose to submit to humiliation.

Employers' refusal to accept COVID-19-positive rehabilitation workers is also closely related to epidemic prevention regulations. These people not only protect their legitimate rights and interests through court prosecution, but also apply for the intervention of relevant local departments to increase punishment, which has also attracted the attention of other departments. They should adjust the policy of excessive epidemic prevention and try not to make a one-size-fits-all approach. Intensify publicity to let people know that COVID-19-positive recovered patients are harmless to society, will not cause the spread of the virus, and can work normally. Only in this way can they be recognized by their employers.