A list of workers expected to receive payment promised by the Government for the 15 days of work stoppage had been transmitted by local radio station last week in order to admit workers in a spaced manner on site and comply with measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

Unfortunately, the workers who had to go to the Industrial Development Company (CODEVI) located in the free zone of Ouanaminthe https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-27320-haiti-dr-codevi-will-create-14-000-new-jobs-this-year.html to seek their wages, far from respecting the sanitary instructions, rushed in the biggest disorder on the bridge of Ouanaminthe and the Industrial Park of Caracol...

"Lessons will be drawn from public information and from management by public institutions..." underlined Georges B. Sassine the President of the Association of Industries of Haiti (ADIH) "This unfortunately does not reflect the efforts that are made by companies to better manage and preventively, the surroundings of textile factories, with markings on the ground on the sidewalks. Between April 20 and 24, 36 of our colleagues opened their factories, respecting and enforcing all the required standards."

See also :https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-27320-haiti-dr-codevi-will-create-14-000-new-jobs-this-year.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-30419-haiti-covid-19-list-of-factories-authorized-to-operate.html

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