Trieste: Passes Health Covid-19 became mandatory for all workers in Italy from Friday, with steps applied mostly peacefully throughout the country even though some protests are spread.
At the main port of Trieste, where several labor groups have threatened to block operations in protest against rules, the situation appeared mostly calm, with some workers showing but others were allowed to continue as usual.
“The Green Pass is a bad thing, it is discrimination under the law.
There is no longer.
This is not a health regulation, it is only a political step to create distribution among people …” said Fabio Bocin, a port aged 59 year.
Workers in Trieste.
In Rome, the police in the teeth riots stood in front of a general meeting with people shouting “no green pass.” The first cabinet Mario Draghi approved the rules – one of the most stringent anti-covid steps in the world – in mid-September, making it mandatory from October 15 for all workers both to show evidence of vaccination, negative tests of infection.
About 15% of personal and 8% of public sector workers do not have a green pass, government internal documents seen by Reuters estimates.
Under new rules, effective to the end of the year, those without certificates will be suspended without paying and facing a fine of up to 1,500 euros ($ 1,730) if they try to work.
The government hopes that the move to make a health pass must convince Italians who are not vaccinated to change their minds, but with more than 80% of the population over 12 years old has been fully inoculated and the infection rate is low, that the surge has not been realized.
Right league and Italian brothers and several unions said that, to overcome the risk of lack of staff, the validity of Covid tests must be extended from 48 to 72 hours, and they must be free to workers who are not vaccinated.
But the government has so far opposed the call.
The middle-left democratic party, which is part of Draghi’s ruler coalition, said that making free swabs will be equivalent to amnesty for Dodgers tax.