The government aims to expand as much as possible the green pass obligation. There are two next steps: introducing the green certificate for everyone public administration workers and for all private sector employees. The measures will be contained in the same decree law – expected in the Council of Ministers as early as Tuesday – and should trigger the obligation starting from mid-October.
The goal is to establish a rule valid for all workers. The controls, however, will be diversified: to establish the modalities in private companies will require a negotiation between employers and trade unions.
The political unknown remains the position of the League, which also seems to have softened a lot in the last few days. "I haven't seen any documents yet", Matteo Salvini limited himself to saying yesterday, avoiding rekindling the controversy with the government. But then the number one of the League underlined that "in Europe we would be the only ones" to enact such measures: a jab that is a prelude to an attempt to hinder, or at least dilute, the text under study.
In reality, the decree does not yet have a defined physiognomy. There are two hypotheses in circulation. The first plans to extend the certification obligation to the PA and to those private companies that already require the vaccination passport from customers (restaurants, cinemas, bars, gyms, swimming pools, trains, stadiums, fairs and more).
The second, however, is broader and extends the obligation not only to all state employees, but also to all private employees. Precisely this path, decidedly more drastic, has become increasingly probable in recent days. Also because it solves a thorny problem: that of people who work in state-owned companies, which are many and are not legally comparable to civil servants.
However, other issues remain to be resolved. For example: who will pay for swabs for private employees who don't want to get vaccinated and therefore will have to get the green pass by testing every two days? Or: who and how will monitor compliance with the rules between self-employed workers and freelancers?
