Mandatory Green Pass for All Workers Arrives

Green pass mandatory to enter all workplaces. The government's choice has arrived, on the front of the fight against Covid.

We must hurry, to reach at least the 'safety' threshold of 80% of vaccinated people within a month. Therefore Mario Draghi decides to focus on the green certificate: “It works, it is monitored, it is an accommodating solution”, he tells the unions, explaining why it was preferred to impose the pass and – for now – not the obligation of vaccination. It is a “path that unifies”, the Prime Minister underlines.

From mid-October, it will be necessary to be vaccinated, have taken a swab or have recovered from Covid, to enter public and private offices, but the obligation should also be extended to professional offices, shops, restaurants. For those who show up for work without one, there will be fines: a fine, which should go from 400 to 1000 euro, and disciplinary, which will be modulated on the different categories.

There will be an express ban on firing, taking on board a union concern. While the issue of swabs remains: the request of Cgil, Cisl and Uil and some ministers is to make them free for everyone, but the government's line for now remains against it, because the risk is to discourage vaccinations.

The technical work on the decree for the "super" will continue in the next few hours Green passes: among the hypotheses there is that of differentiating the entry into force of the measures, staggering them between October 1 and 15. Draghi first summoned the unions to Palazzo Chigi, to illustrate the government's line.

A control room has been set for tomorrow morning for the final political choices, which the government will immediately communicate to the Italian Regions. Finally, at 16 pm, the text should arrive on the table of the Council of Ministers for approval. The doubts of Matteo Salvini, who says he is against imposing the pass “on all Italians”. The Northern League’s stomach aches are reflected in the parliamentary votes on previous Green Pass decrees.

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But the League, which continues to ask for free swabs, is unlikely to distance itself. Giancarlo Giorgetti, that with Renato Brunetta, Roberto Speranza and Andrea Orlando joins Draghi at the table with the unions, has already publicly expressed his favor for the measure, which is also liked by the governors of the North. To date, according to government data, 13,9 million workers already have the Green Pass, 4,1 million still do not have it: the obligation would therefore concern a total of about 18 million people.

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According to the Commissioner's data Son, furthermore, we would be close to "social immunity": accelerating now on the pass in the workplace, serves to approach in 3 or 4 weeks a "safety point", by mid-October to reach the complete vaccination of 44 million people, 81,7% of the group.

A Palazzo Chigi the secretaries of Cgil and Uil Maurizio Landini and Angelo Colombini of the Cisl reiterate the request for mandatory vaccination, but it is a path that the government has chosen not to take for now. The unionists also complain about having to take a swab to enter the building, despite having the Green Pass: "It's a contradiction," they say.

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And they ask that at least in a transitional phase the swabs be free for everyone, so as to allow those who do not have the vaccine to enter work at zero cost. But on this point the prime minister and most ministers have doubts, due to the disincentive effect: controlled prices are applied and will continue to be applied. However, the decision will be made by control room: until the very end, a transitional period of free access cannot be excluded.