From Trentino refuges to Sicilian restaurants, passing through schools, companies, and soon the Parliament. Under the sun of the last ten days of August, the clash on green pass. Which in fact has become the clash on the obligation to vaccinate, from 6 August the main requirement, according to the July decree, to be able to exhibit the coveted (or disputed) anti Covid barcode where required. Of course, to get the pass, repeat swabs or the certification of having had Covid in the previous six months are enough, but the knot that divides the country remains the vaccine.
“A duty and an act of love”, underlined the head of state Sergio Mattarella, in continuity with the appeal launched before the summer break by Mario Draghi and taking up the words of Pope Francis two days ago. But the “no vax” front still crosses the school staff (12.5% are not vaccinated, Commissioner Figliuolo certifies) and the health one (35 thousand are missing), while there are 2 million unvaccinated fifties and Lega is preparing, at the resumption of parliamentary work in September, to give battle with amendments to the July decree.
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The pressure for compulsoriness is growing
The last to ask for it to be mandatory by law, in two letters sent yesterday to Prime Minister Draghi and to the regional governors, the restaurateurs and bartenders represented by fipe. With the aim of avoiding “new restrictive measures for businesses”. But also the Cisl, with the secretary Lugi Sbarra. To which the Minister of Labor Andrea Orlando responded yesterday at the Rimini Meeting, with the inevitable prudence imposed by the explosive situation: “All the tools and all the ways to combat Covid, in compliance with the assessments of the scientific community , they must be traveled: I am in favor of exploring all the solutions that allow Italians to be put as safe as possible ».
The school mine from the first of September
The decree of August 6 provides for teachers and technical assistants (janitors), starting from September 1, also the obligation of the green pass penalty, after 5 days, thesuspension from work and salary. With the simultaneous appointment of an alternate. School staff can also opt for swabs, but, as regards the controversy over who should bear the related costs, a protocol and two circulars from the Ministry of Education make it clear that exams are free only for fragile staff. The no-vax teachers, on the other hand, will have to pay for it. And the government flatly denies hypotheses of modification to the decree of 6 August.
The corporate canteens node
Another very hot front for the reopening of companies after August. After the decree-laws issued, and finally one government faq, the regulatory framework provides that for consumption at the table indoors, access to company canteens and premises used for the administration of catering services to employees is precluded (except for the hypotheses provided for by law, for example the health conditions for exemption from vaccination) to those who do not show the green pass (similar to what happens in restaurants). But the first applications of the new legislation are creating disorientation and confusion among companies; hence the need within the executive for new clarifications. The same Undersecretary of Health, Pierpaolo Sileri asked for it.