The CISL raises the alarm: “The Covid quarantine is no longer equated to illness, workers are penalized and will be discouraged to report their status”.
In the union’s crosshairs, the “surprising note of 6 August” in which INPS announced that “for 2021 no resources have been allocated for sickness benefits in the event of quarantine for private employees who have come into contact with a positive Covid “.
The secretary of Piacenza and Parma Michele Vaghini, together with the regional secretary Ciro Donnarumma, he attacks: “It is incredible that such an impactful provision is made known in August and with retroactive effect. Isolation, which was previously equated to illness and therefore paid for by INPS, is no longer so. The Institute clarifies, in fact, that the economic treatments provided for by the DL “Cura Italia” of March 2020 and equivalent to what is provided for in the event of a common illness will not be paid “.
A novelty that will affect in particular those who cannot perform smart working: “Those who will not receive economic coverage for the absence due to quarantine for the whole of 2021 and will find themselves without salary and contributions – adds Vaghini – above all those workers who cannot in any way carry out activities remotely, such as workers, warehouse workers, bricklayers, shop assistants, cashiers, social co-op educators, that is precisely those who were on the front line during the lockdown “.
But the CISL denounces a further risk: “Many workers who have come into contact with a positive could be discouraged to report this condition, since it would lead to unpaid absence from work. The result would be to create the conditions for a further extension of Covid among colleagues “.
The union then launches a strong appeal to the president of the Region, Stefano Bonaccini to urge the government to fix the situation.
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