Officials in the governorate and city of Aswan followed the incident of forcing a Nile ship to work for it with temporary contracts to submit their resignations and leave the ship without submitting to a quarantine in light of the spread of Corona virus, in violation of the decisions of the governors and the Cabinet, not to lay off workers in tourist facilities, in addition to the need to subject all Workers in the governorates of Aswan, Luxor, the Red Sea and South Sinai, for quarantine, to ensure that they are free from any infection with the Coronavirus, especially after they have been in contact with foreigners because of the nature of their work.
Major General Ashraf Attia, Governor of Aswan, and officials of the Aswan City Council and the Tourism Police interacted with the incident and contacted Chef Amr, the cook on the Nile cruise ship that had the incident, and after arriving at him, his condition was followed by Eng. Yahya Mustafa, deputy head of the Aswan Center and City Council, in coordination with The governorate, where they were admitted to the hospital in Aswan, in the early hours of Thursday, to perform some tests to ensure that there are no symptoms of infection with Coronavirus, and initial tests confirmed that it was free from infection with the virus.
For his part, an official at the Aswan City Council confirmed that the governor is following the incident moment by moment, and that Chef Amr, who revealed his company’s fraud in laying off workers without subjecting them to quarantine, is currently undergoing medical follow-up inside a hospital in Aswan, and that coordination is being done to conduct further checks on it To ensure that he is completely free of any infection with the Corona virus, pointing out that he will not leave Aswan, until after the completion of the tests completely and make sure that he is not infected with the virus, in accordance with the directives of the Council of Ministers and the Ministry of Health.
He pointed out that what happened with Chef Amr and his colleagues from laying off and forcing them to leave without being subject to quarantine, is fraud and manipulation from the company, in violation of the decisions and directives of state institutions, stressing that Aswan Governorate will take strict measures towards this company and any other company that circumvents the procedures in this way Especially since the company that has the crisis has exerted a lot of pressure, games and intimidation attempts towards its employees in order to weaken their position, and that the manager of the Nile cruise ship has tried to intimidate the chef who revealed his fraud on the procedures, and tried to keep him away from the correct path of legal procedures followed by the province.
The Aswan City Council official explained that the director of the Nile cruise ship attempted to manipulate and defraud the law by notifying the governor of Aswan and officials in the city council that Chef Amr had been on leave for 15 days, and that he arrived at the ship, yesterday, Wednesday, and that he had caused this crisis only two hours after his arrival, Adding “the fact that we have confirmed later, that all this talk is not true, and that Chef Amr was already on vacation, but he continued on board the Nile cruise ship for more than 24 hours after returning from vacation, and that the ship was carrying foreign tourists on board, which means The manager of the Nile cruise ship was trying to delude us with lies and information Minutes, “stressing that it will release an official record of the incident to take the necessary legal action against the management company and its officials.
It is noteworthy that one of the workers in the tourism sector in Aswan, had confirmed that the management of the Nile ship “Voyager”, which is affiliated to ETAAP Tourism, is forcing workers with temporary contracts in all departments of the ship to submit their resignation and leave the ship without submitting to a quarantine, pointing out that this procedure contravenes Government decisions regarding the need for foreign contacts to be subject to checks and quarantine before traveling to other provinces.
It is reported that Amr – who works as a kitchen chef on the aforementioned ship – during his contact with “The Seventh Day”, had said that the ship Voyager, anchored to the “King” marina in front of the Peace Park, which is scheduled to leave for Luxor at 10 o’clock Wednesday evening, explaining that some workers had already had to submit to the ship’s intransigence, sign their resignations, and leave Aswan heading to their homes in other governorates without submitting to quarantine.
The chef added in the Nile cruise ship, that the company’s management took advantage of the conditions the country is going through in light of the crisis of the new Corona virus outbreak “Covid 19”, and pressed the workers to resign without obtaining their full dues, and that the financial dues they obtained deducted the balance of the leaves, which made them They do not get all of their financial dues accurately.
He pointed out that he still adheres to his rights and sits inside the ship in his workplace, refusing to sign the resignation, before obtaining all his financial dues, in addition to continuing on board the ship until it reaches Luxor to submit to the quarantine with the rest of his colleagues, stressing that the ship Fujir is still carrying tourists Foreigners so far, who will leave it on Thursday morning, pointing out that his colleagues who left the ship a few hours ago, had contact with these tourists during their work, and they are now on their way back to their homes without revealing to them to ensure that they are free of any symptoms of the Corona virus.
He explained that the company’s management wants this to lay off workers until it reaches Luxor Governorate with fewer workers so that it does not bear high residence costs for workers during the quarantine period that will be imposed on the ship in Luxor, pointing out that the ship when moving from Aswan will reach Luxor and On board it is staffed with open contracts only, and by this the ship will be in front of the state agencies that has put a quarantine on its workers, but in reality it will have laid off some workers from Aswan before entering the quarantine.
He continued, “This means that the workers who will leave the ship from Aswan – in case there is an infection among them with the Corona virus – they will be a danger to their families and those who accompany them on the train or buses that they will be transported from Aswan to their various provinces.”
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