Unions call for €150 million fund to compensate Long Covid sufferers

Care workers and teachers who have developed Long Covid should be entitled to compensation from the government, trade unions said on Monday. The government did not do enough to protect the health of people working in healthcare or education during the height of the pandemic and thousands of them are entitled to cash payments, the FNV and CNV trade union federations, and the AOB teaching union say. The unions want the government to set up a €150 million fund for...