Unions - Pan/Flu Guidance

[sharon sanders]

"...What unions can do​

[FONT=AKDCK O+ Sabon,Sabon]Trade unions should ensure that their employer has in place either a separate policy for dealing with pandemic influenza, or a general policy covering major disasters or incidents that also covers major public health incidents such as pandemic influenza. It should not be left to employers alone to decide on what is an appropriate response. Unions must also be involved, as any effective policy must have the confidence of the whole workforce.[/FONT]​

[FONT=AKDCK O+ Sabon,Sabon]When considering your employer?s response to pandemic influenza the following are some of the areas that you may wish to address. [/FONT]
[FONT=AKDCH M+ Frutiger,Frutiger]Are the employer?s proposals reasonable and practical? [/FONT]​

[FONT=AKDCK O+ Sabon,Sabon]Many employers will have either overly elaborate plans or will simply add "pandemic influenza" onto an existing emergency plan without making any real changes. To be of any use the employer must actually go through the process of considering what effect all the different possible scenarios would have on their staff and how they operate, right up to the worst likely situation of up to 50% of the workforce being off, disruption to transport, and the disruptions to other services that could also arise (such as banking, the internet, supplies etc.) ..."[/FONT]

 

[cartski]

Re: Unions - Pan/Flu Guidance

This is an interesting document from many points of view.

The section quoted by F1 emphasizes the role that unions often take in our society - that of the critical voice on public or private policy. Although the paper does outline a few key areas about plandemic plans that need close scrutiny, it does not provide a critique with the same level of elaboration that it suggests employers use in creating their plans. The reader (at least me) is left wondering if there are unstated questions that should be asked when evaluating plans.

That begs the questions whether or not a gold standard pandemic plan exists, against which other pandemica plans can be evalutated?

Often we see "report card" systems used to quickly indicate the evaluation of some organization, program or policy. For example, Conference Board of Canada publishes a report card on Canad'a socio-economic performance with that of other leading industrialized countries.

http://www.conferenceboard.ca/documents.asp?rnext=2047

A similar evaluation tool is used for environmental concerns.

Does on exist for pandemic preparedness?

J.