Judith Souza, who announced this Monday, via social media, that she had suspended her professional activity at CNN Portugal, returned this Tuesday to Instagram to respond to the statements of Nuno Santos, the media director of the television station. The journalist and columnist says it was a “lifetime” decision made on her “exclusive initiative,” and says she traveled to Ukraine on a report without health insurance.
“I knew I didn’t have an employment contract, but I didn’t know I didn’t have health insurance,” Judit Souza says in a long post on her Instagram account, adding that “the company, when I realized the problem, created a 30-day work contract.” He adds that because of his absence from Portugal, this “document did not exist in the face of the law” because he never signed it.
The journalist notes that he remained at work in Ukraine without having financial resources. “Without money? Yes. I’ve never seen a Ukrainian coin or banknote. To drink water, have coffee and have lunch, I asked the young photo reporter to pay my expenses. So two weeks went by,” Judith Souza wrote.
According to Nuno Santos, “Judit has a servicing contract with TVI and CNN Portugal,” and was “on sick leave until August 11.” TV station manager Negates The focal point when she stated that “Judith went to Lviv, Ukraine, obviously had insurance,” denying that she “would have been denied access to the money, without conditions of work.”
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