Whoops! Up to 17% of the Workforce in Vallarta Has COVID Brenda Beltran - Tribuna de la Bahia
go to original January 20, 2022

Juan Pablo Martinez, president of Coparmex Puerto Vallarta, informed that in a census carried out in the more than 150 companies affiliated to this business organization, between 15 and 17% of the employees are infected by COVID-19.

In this sense, he emphasized that in those companies where Home Office tasks can be carried out, it will be implemented as suggested by the Governor of the State, Enrique Alfaro Ramirez. However, he reminded that most of the companies in Puerto Vallarta are in the tourism and visitor service sectors.

"We have asked those businessmen who have the facility to offer their workers this type of modality to do so, however, there is a situation, since due to the type of business and the tourist vocation of the city it is difficult to carry it out, because we are talking about restaurants, hotels and other types of activities where a face-to-face service to the tourist is needed".

But he reiterated that in those companies that can, Coparmex has been promoting this modality.

On the other hand, the businessman commented that in an analysis they made of the more than 150 companies affiliated to this organization, they detected between 15 and 17% of workers infected by COVID-19. For this reason, they have been promoting again all the health measures already known.

In addition to this, he emphasized that they have had communication with the health institutions so that they accept the online incapacities, in spite of the fact that it is said that there are some false ones, but in Puerto Vallarta no company is using these bad practices. Regarding the work in the companies that have infected personnel, he pointed out the following:

"Some strategies have been made to move the teams and play a little with the workers' schedules, maybe also pay overtime to some employees or in those companies that do need a service with greater attention to the client, yes they have hired personnel".

Finally the president of Coparmex Puerto Vallarta exhorted businessmen to continue complying with sanitation protocols and in those places where it is necessary to ask for a vaccination certificate or a negative PCR test result to abide by this disposition.

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