ROME. Belle Grillo proposes that the State pay the tampons to the workers, but immediately the Minister of Labor, Andrea Orlando, rejects the request to the sender.
«The workers without vaccines could be 3-3.5 million, out of 23 million workers, about 13% -15%. If the state decided, as desirable, to pay the tampons to enter the company, for these workers, about 1 billion euros would be needed until December 2021 “. This is Grillo’s reasoning in a long post on his blog where “as a good accountant” he explains numbers as the No Vax people in Italy are “very contained”. “Of the 19 million missing, about 6 are under the age of 12, and another 6 are between the ages of 12 and 19, and therefore are mostly high school students and non-workers. It is also estimated that there are about 2.5 million over-60s without vaccines, mainly concentrated in the 60-69 years. Of these, more than half are retired and less than 1 million are workers. So we should have 19-12-1 = approximately 6 million of active age. Not all of these are workers: they could be unemployed, inactive and not employed, at least 2/3, so 2.5-3 million ”, he argues.
“These workers could be automatically identified through a data exchange between Sogei, which holds the data on the Green Pass, and Inps, which holds the tax codes of the workers and the companies where they work. The intersection between these two datasets, with the authorization of the guarantor, would allow INPS to report in the company drawer, the workers without Green Pass to whom to swab, and a bonus should be recognized in the company drawer in the form of contribution relief , so that the cost of the tampon is only advanced by the company but paid as an adjustment by the INPS, as generally happens for the ordinary layoff on the payment of company contributions “, Grillo’s reasoning.
“This mechanism, which would not invade privacy except within the strictly necessary limits, with impact verification, and data processed in compliance with the GPDR, and in any case without any consequences for workers, except for the purpose of paying the cost of the tampon, would have the double advantage: one, to be fast, to avoid queues and checks at company turnstiles, during which workers would certainly see their freedom of space violated, and two, to be free for workers, and to identify the cost and cover it with a special bonus, paid by the state ».
Orlando replies clearly: «I have always said one thing, it seems reasonable to me to think of all possible forms of control, but making the tampon become free basically means saying that those who have been vaccinated are wrong. I think instead that we must say that those who go to work and those who are still not convinced can also have a partially different treatment compared to those who do not have to go to work ”.